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Question : 41 [SSC Tax Assistant 2006]

Who invented the video-tape ?

a) Georges de Mestral

b) Richard James

c) P. T. Farnsworth

d) Charles Ginsberg

Answer: (d)

A videotape is a recording of images and sounds onto magnetic tape as opposed to film stock used in filmmaking or random access digital media. Videotapes are also used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram.

Charles P. Ginsburg invented the videotape. He worked for Ampex and was inspired by the reel-to-reel machines used for recording sound.

Question : 42 [SSC Stenographer 2016]

Who invented the ‘World Wide Web’ ?

a) Charles Babbage

b) Tim Berners-Lee

c) R. Samuel Tomlinson

d) Martin Cooper

Answer: (b)

World Wide Web (www) was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. It is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.

Question : 43 [Manipur PSC (Pre) 2017]

In Einstein’s equation E = mc2 , c denotes

a) Wavelength

b) A constant

c) Velocity of sound

d) Speed of light

Answer: (d)

Question : 44 [IAS (Pre) 1995]

The Nobel Prize for deciphering the language of bee was awarded to

a) Julian Huxley

b) Dorothy Hodgkins

c) H.G. Khurana

d) K.V. Frisch

Answer: (d)

Question : 45 [SSC CPO 2016]

Which scientist got the particle name for ‘mesotron’ changed to ‘meson’ ?

a) William Buehler

b) Hans Adolf Krebs

c) Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha

d) Carl David Anderson

Answer: (c)

When Card David Anderson discovered a new particle with a mass between that of the electron and proton, he named it 'mesoton' in a 1933 publication in the Physical Review.

However, on the advice of Professor R.A. Millikan, he changed the name to ‘mesotron’ although he (Anderson) did not agree with it.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha then sent a short paper to Nature journal in February 1939 in which he proposed the name meson. The name given by Bhabha has remained to this day and is used for a class of elementary particles.

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