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  1. 1. Who is most closely associated with Barometer?

    1. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail
    2. J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
    3. Evangelista Torricelli
    4. Albert Einstein

  2. 2. Who is most closely associated with Pendulum clock?

    1. James Watson and Francis Crick, using crucial data including Rosalind Franklin's work
    2. Intel 4004 team led by Federico Faggin
    3. Christiaan Huygens
    4. Alexander Fleming

  3. 3. Who is most closely associated with Smallpox vaccination?

    1. Ray Tomlinson
    2. Douglas Engelbart
    3. Edward Jenner
    4. J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly

  4. 4. Who is most closely associated with Electric battery?

    1. Guglielmo Marconi
    2. Douglas Engelbart
    3. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
    4. Alessandro Volta

  5. 5. Who is most closely associated with Electromagnetic induction?

    1. Edward Jenner
    2. James Watt
    3. Thomas Edison
    4. Michael Faraday

  6. 6. Who is most closely associated with Electric telegraph system?

    1. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley
    2. Willard Libby
    3. Samuel Morse
    4. Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson

  7. 7. Who is most closely associated with Morse code?

    1. Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer
    2. Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson
    3. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail
    4. Kary Mullis

  8. 8. Who is most closely associated with Dynamite?

    1. Linus Torvalds
    2. Guglielmo Marconi
    3. LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration
    4. Alfred Nobel

  9. 9. Who is most closely associated with Periodic table?

    1. Henri Becquerel
    2. Dmitri Mendeleev
    3. Edward Jenner
    4. James Chadwick

  10. 10. Who is most closely associated with Telephone?

    1. Ernest Rutherford
    2. ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN
    3. Douglas Engelbart
    4. Alexander Graham Bell

  11. 11. Who is most closely associated with Phonograph?

    1. Thomas Edison
    2. Jonas Salk
    3. Edward Jenner
    4. Kary Mullis

  12. 12. Who is most closely associated with Alternating-current induction motor?

    1. Nikola Tesla
    2. Galileo Galilei
    3. Kary Mullis
    4. MITS