The Greatest Inventions
Across
- 2. a cooking device that burns oil
- 5. a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.
- 8. a piece of equipment for playing records in order to listen to the music, etc. on them
- 10. a piece of clothing that covers the whole body, worn by the pilot and crew of a military or light aircraft
- 14. a long thin piece of material like string that goes through the holes on a shoe and is used to fasten it
- 16. a vehicle that uses a combination of sensors, cameras, radar and artificial intelligence (AI) to travel between destinations without a human operator.
- 17. a small computer that is easy to carry, with a large touch screen and usually without a physical keyboard
- 19. a small timepiece worn typically on a strap on one's wrist.
- 20. a pair of headphones, especially one with a microphone attached to it. without using wires for the receiving equipment
- 21. a small piece of equipment that can store information taken from the internet and that you can carry with you, for example so that you can listen to music
- 22. an instrument for finding direction, with a needle that always points to the north
- 23. a small electronic device for playing video games
- 24. a small computer that can work with a battery and be easily carried
- 25. a mobile phone that also has some of the functions of a computer, for example the facility to use apps and the internet
Down
- 1. a small electronic device or piece of software for calculating with numbers
- 3. a machine that can perform a complicated series of tasks by itself
- 4. a computing system that aids in navigation. It may be entirely on board the vehicle or vessel that the system is controlling (for example, on the ship's bridge) or located elsewhere, making use of radio or other signal transmission to control the vehicle or vessel.
- 6. a flat disk inside a plastic cover, used in the past to store data in the form that a computer could read, and that could be removed from the computer
- 7. images and sounds created by a computer that seem almost real to the user, who can interact with them by using sensors
- 9. a lens for one eye used to help you see more clearly with that eye
- 11. a camera of a type with internal processing which produces a finished print rapidly after each exposure.
- 12. a device for playing DVDs
- 13. the set of keys for operating a computer or typewriter, or the set of letters that you can touch to write on a smartphone or tablet
- 15. a small piece of glass, wood, etc., with a hole through it, that can be put on a string with others of the same type and worn as jewellery, etc.
- 18. a board with a surface with ridges on it, used in the past for rubbing clothes on when washing them
- 22. a gadget that does not have wires and works by radio, and that you can carry with you and use anywhere