scientist, discoveries & inventions MCQ section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American brothers, who are credited with inventing and building the world’s first successful airplane on December 17, 1903. From 1905 to 1907, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon. He was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done.

Answer: (a)

Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the world’s first antibiotic— benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G)—from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928. For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

Answer: (a)

Radar is an object detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, altitude, direction, or speed of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain.

The radar dish or antenna transmits pulses of radio waves or microwaves which bounce off any object in their path.

In 1922 A. Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young, researchers working with the U.S. Navy invented Radar.

Answer: (b)