Inventors: Who Am I? #2

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  1. 3. Thomas Edison invented the ___ and helped make light bulbs for homes & streets
  2. 4. Percy Spencer was an American engineer at Raytheon who invented the ___ oven in 1945 (Hint: melted chocolate bar)
  3. 6. Eli Whitney invented the ___ gin in 1793 & helped shape the Industrial Revolution in America
  4. 7. Martin Cooper made the first handheld ___ phone, making the first public call on it in 1973. It took 10 hours to charge!
  5. 8. James Wardle, a software engineer, created this popular word puzzle game in 2021 (Hint: six tries to guess the five-letter word of the day)
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  1. 1. Play-Doh was invented by Noah McVicker in the 1930s as wallpaper cleaner, but it was later transformed into a popular children’s ___
  2. 2. James Naismith invented the game of ___ using a soccer ball & two peach baskets as goals in 1891
  3. 3. George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist who promoted alternative crops like ___ or sweet potatoes to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion
  4. 4. Douglas Engelbart invented the first computer ___ in 1964
  5. 5. George Eastman invented a small, simple ___ in 1888 & created a company that made film