Discoveries & Inventions
Across
- 4. Edison’s machine for recording and playing back sound
- 7. Allows pain-free surgery; ether first used in the 1840s
- 10. Global network born from ARPANET in the late 1960s
- 12. Marie Curie’s groundbreaking research field
- 16. Edison made this invention famous for lighting homes
- 17. Edward Jenner pioneered this for smallpox in 1796
- 18. Double helix structure discovered by Watson and Crick
- 19. Newton’s “apple” led to this fundamental force's description
- 20. Jenner’s method for preventing disease using cowpox
Down
- 1. Gutenberg’s 15th-century invention that spread books far and wide
- 2. Galileo improved this optical device in the 1600s
- 3. Process to kill microbes in food and drink, named for a French chemist
- 5. Discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928; revolutionized medicine
- 6. Alessandro Volta’s invention for storing electrical energy
- 8. Powered the Industrial Revolution; key to early trains and factories
- 9. Wilhelm Röntgen’s discovery that lets us see inside bodies
- 11. Einstein’s theory that revolutionized physics
- 13. Broad class of bacteria-fighting drugs, penicillin was the first
- 14. Underwater vessel, first successfully demonstrated by Cornelis Drebbel
- 15. Detects distant objects using radio waves