Inventions puzzle
Across
- 6. The warmed ground radiates heat into 52 homes for the whole cold season.
- 8. An object that shoots into the sky that astronauts use
- 11. Apple scientist Steve Perlman says that he got the idea for the groundbreaking multimedia program
- 13. something everyone uses nowadays to make phone calls, also inspired by multiple startreck inventions
- 15. But one tiny piece of tech in 1953’s Fahrenheit 451 was about to hit a nonfiction tipping point: “thimble radios,” which provided “an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk.”
- 17. were first used as slave labors. Eventually, they gain sentience and rise up.
- 18. two silver paddles wired to an outlet. By the ’50s, the machines were reviving patients in hospitals worldwide.
Down
- 1. Perhaps inspired by the “Star Wars” scene in which the robot R2D2 projects a holographic image of Princess Leia asking Obi-Wan Kenobi for help,
- 2. He hypothesized “robot-brain” cars capable of self-driving. And now major global companies such as Google, Uber, Tesla, Lyft are working towards becoming the first to sell self-driving vehicles to the public.
- 3. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash describes a fully immersive online “Metaverse” where people interact with one another through representations called “avatars.
- 4. Physicist Leo Szilard read the book in 1932, which inspired him to solve the problem of creating a nuclear chain reaction
- 5. Bradbury described how the Seashell radio device is tucked inside the ear.
- 7. Something computer like that was invted by steve jobs
- 9. An object most women carry around to protect themselves
- 10. His company built the Argonaut—the first......to operate successfully in the open ocean, in 1898—earning him a congratulatory note from Verne.
- 12. Real-life manipulator arms that were developed for the nuclear industry in the mid-1940s
- 14. was inspired by a Verne book, Clipper of the Clouds, which sikorksy had read as a young boy
- 16. transform beef’s chemical elements into synthetic burger