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Test your knowledge of our Industrial Past.... 
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has much more interesting information about most of these scientific, and 
industrial legends. 

 1.  Who thought up this following list of ideas over 500 years ago...... 
This man also drew up the plans for hundreds of inventions in the 1500's such as.....a threading tool, deep-sea divers suit, hydraulic saw, revolving bridge, boat with paddle wheels, bilge pump, pile driver, armored car, three-barreled cannon, giant cross-bow, multiple cross-bow, flying machines, parachute, drilling machine, fan, and machines for making mirrors.   Many of his ideas were derived from rare manuscripts of 1st Century Roman engineers.  He was also a military engineer. 

 A.  Hadrian
B.  Duke of Padua
C.  Plutarch
D.  DaVinci

2.  This man was a Greek mathematician around 325 B.C. who was credited with the production of a whole collection of books called "The Elements" which had been popular for thousands of years among 
scholars, engineers, and mechanics.

A.  Aristotle
B. Plato
C.  Homer
D.  Euclid

 3.  A world  famous German astronomer and mathematics scholar.  He was to 
formulate laws that "formed much of the groundwork of Newton's discoveries.  

A.  Deming
B.   Thomas T. Diefling
C.  Johann Keplar
D.  Von Keissler

4.  He was born on the West Indies Island of Nevis 1757. He moved to New York in 1772.  Later he attended King's College, which is now Columbia University. Unlike Jefferson who wanted farming to be prevalent in the economy, He wanted to build the industrial culture. 

A. George Washington
B. Samuel Adams
C. Alexander Hamilton
D. Ben Franklin

5.  He was a famous British ironworker.   His most important contribution was the 
invention of a certain cannon boring machine in 1770's, which was safer and more accurate than 
any other used at that time. He was also buried in an iron coffin.
A. James Watt
B.  Lord Brimsley
C.  Count of Sheffieldshire
D.  John Wilkinson

 6.  He was very popular with and visited the wealthy Nobles of France who highly respected him.  
He was an outspoken American who also lived for awhile in England and had friends there too.
 He disrespected England because of the short-lived,  but rousing Stamp Act, which 
was called a "Tax on Knowledge"  The Act was to tax dice, newspaper, playing cards,
and legal documents among other things.

A.  Paul Revere
B. Andrew Jackson
C.  George Grenville
D.  Ben Franklin

 7.  Although the circular saw was probably first used by the Swedes and Dutch in 
the 1500-1600's, it was patented by this man in 1777 in England. 
A. Samuel Miller
B.  Count Rockwell
C.  Joseph Sawyer II
D.  David Hume

 8.  He led the policy for the Louisiana Purchase and sent James Monroe to 
France for the deal with Napoleon for the Louisiana Purchase for $15 million dollars. He  
appropriated $2,500, "to send intelligent officers with ten or twelve men, to explore the Western 
United States, which was the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
A. Andrew Jackson
B. Abe Lincoln
C.  Adam Smith
D.  Thomas Jefferson

9.  He graduated from Yale College in 1792.   He was world famous for his claimed invention 
which processed a certain southern crop and vital commodity.  Later on he 
held the largest contract with the U.S. government for making guns at the time.  
A. Sam Colt
B.  Duke of Winchester
C.  Eli Whitney
D.  Oliver Perry

 10.  He thought of the vital idea that every screw of a particular size ought to have a determined 
number of standard threads. This simple revolutionary idea, was soon put into use everywhere. 
Without standardizing screws and their pitch, industry would have remained in the Dark Ages with 
so many different threads and time consuming effort to duplicate them all upon failure.  
It was one of his workmen, Whitworth who later refined on this practice and gave to it his 
own name, "The Whitworth Thread."  Who was he...
A.  Joseph Clement
B.  Joseph Clement's uncle.
C.  Andrew Carnegie
D.  J.P. Morgamer

 11.  Who was this pioneer of trains?  In England, when the railway was opened in 1830,  the Prime Minister and the Duke of Wellington, attended the opening ceremony. But the day turned tragic when one of the government ministers, William Huskisson, was killed by an oncoming locomotive. His trains were very noisy and very smoky. The riders clothes were filled with soot when they traveled in the train. He continued to work on improving the quality of the train, especially with improvements in the efficiency of the engine.  He was born in Wylam England in 1781 and his father worked on engines at a coal mine......

A. Casey Jones
B. George Stephenson
C.  Josiah Wedgewood
D.  Thomas Hobbs

12.  His steam printing machine equipped  with rollers was adopted by the newspaper called The Times, London, in 1814 and raised the output of a printing press from an incredible 300 to 1,100 copies an hour.

A. Frederich Koenig
B.  Albert Einstein
C.  Charles II
D.  John Milton 

13.  The first practical paper machine was invented by Nicholas Louis Robert in France, but the patent was taken to England where the first efficient machines were set up. Paper was mainly produced from linen and cotton rags. Esparto grass was also used.  Machine made paper began to replace hand-made paper around what year....

A. 1620
B  1660
C. 1803
D. 1899

 14.   A colliery is another name for a

A. Sheep farm
B. Coal Mine
C. Collie farm
D.  Iron Foundry

15. After centuries of use, iron, it was discovered could be made into steel 
which was less brittle and bendable for stamping, machine parts and other uses 
with the addition of what?
A.  Rubber
B. Titanium
C.  Chromium
D. Air

16.  The main university at Oxford was a bastion of technical and scientific research in England for 
many centuries.  Approximately what year was Oxford University founded?
A. 1167
B.  1499
C. 1799
D. 1808

17.  When was tin discovered and first mined in Britain and exported to distant countries.  
A. Since before the Greek and Roman era.
B.  The 7th Century AD
D. The 1400's
C. The 1500's

Belt Buckle 500 A.D.

18.  In 1514 Britain launched a huge warship with 700 men and over 200 guns aboard 
called "The Great Harry."  How was this ship propelled? 
A.  Waterwheel
B.  Steam driven propeller
C.  500 oars and sails
D.  Golden sails

19.  Who was the Emperor who started schools, building roads, Castles, and established 
equal rights and learning in France, Germany and Northern Italy during the 8th. century.  
He also conquered the Lombards and Saxons  He died around 814.
A. Alaric
B.  Maximilian
C.  Charlemagne
D. Otto Von Bismarck

20.  This European principality was where many Vikings settled in the 10th Century and 
was the homeland of William the Conqueror who had defeated England.  After 1066, he then built up Castles 
across England, established a remarkable census and enjoined this province with England.
A. Saxony
B. Ireland
C.  Normandy
D. Luxemberg

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Answers:

(1. D) (2. D) (3. C) (4. C) (5. D) (6. D) (7. A) ( 8. D) ( 9. C) (10. A )
( 11.B ) (12.A ) (13. C ) (14. B ) ( 15.D ) (16. A ) (17.A ) (18. D ) (19. C ) (20.C )

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