Crossword Puzzle Of The Day: Test Your Knowledge On Today’s Inventions

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Across
  1. 3. Reaper / Machines invented to help farmers harvest crops mechanically
  2. 5. Service / By Robert Fulton, in 1807 took passengers from New York City to Albany and back again
  3. 7. Plow / Accidentally discovered by Robert Ransome when he spilled molten iron on the foundry floor
  4. 10. Loom / A mechanized weaving loom designed by Edmund Cartwright
  5. 11. Shuttle / Allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics
  6. 12. Jenny / A machine for spinning with more than one spindle at a time, patented by James Hargreaves
  7. 13. Current / Ampere used this to birth electrodynamics
  8. 15. Drill / A device that sows the seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth
Down
  1. 1. / Created by George Stephenson, a powered rail vehicle used for pulling trains originally full of coal
  2. 2. Gin / Made by Eli Whitney and Phineas Miller, allows seeds to get separated from cotton
  3. 4. Code / Used in telecommunication/the telegraph to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations
  4. 6. Battery / Created by Alessandro Volta, consists of two electrodes: one made of zinc, the other of copper
  5. 8. Mule / Multiple-spindle spinning machine which permitted large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread
  6. 9. Process / A steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation
  7. 14. Rubber / Also called vulcanization. By Charles Goodyear