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Question : 16 [SSC CML (Pre) 2008]

Which of the following machines was designed by Charles Babbage?

a) Punched card

b) Analytical engine

c) Tabulating machine

d) Arithmetic engine

Answer: (b)

The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, a design for a mechanical computer.

The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete.

Question : 17 [SSC CGL 2015]

Radio activity was discovered by :

a) Curie

b) Becqueral

c) Rutherford

d) Soddy

Answer: (b)

French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity by accident in 1896 when a piece of uranium left in a dark desk drawer made an image on photographic plates.

The husband and wife team of Pierre and Marie Curie became interested in Becquerel’s discovery. While experimenting with their own uranium-containing ore, they came up with the term “radioactivity” to describe the spontaneous emissions that they studied.

Question : 18 [IAS (Pre) 1998]

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List I List II
A. Dr Raja Ramanna 1. Plant Chemistry
B. Dr M.S. Swaminathan 2. Nuclear Physics
C. Prof. U.R. Rao 3. Thermodynamics and astrophysics
D. Prof. Meghnad Saha 4. Space research
  5. Agricultural science
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 5 4 3

b) 2 1 4 3

c) 3 5 2 1

d) 2 1 4 3

Answer: (a)

Question : 19 [UPPCS (Pre) 2003]

The National Science Day is observed on February 28 every year to commemorate

a) The successful launch of ASLV

b) Homi J. Bhabha’s birthday

c) Raman-effect day

d) The launch of the first artificial satellite Aryabhatta

Answer: (c)

Question : 20 [Uttarakhand UDA/LDA (Pre) 2007]

Who invented Steam Engine?

a) William Harvey

b) None of the above

c) Robert Watson

d) James Watt

Answer: (d)

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