Group 2 - Questionnaire

1. Telescope. It is an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer,

containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of
light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.
2. Hans Lipperhey. He is the inventor of telescope.
3. 1608. The year telescope was invented.
4. Galileo Galilei. The one who developed and is mistakenly assumed inventor of telescope.
5. True or False. Telescope can spot things that human eyes can’t.
6. Telegraph. It revolutionized long distance communication.
7. Samuel Morse. Who developed electric telegraph?
8. 1835. In what year the electric telegraph was developed?
9. & 10. Give two upgraded replacement of telegraph in modern world.
-telephone
-fax machine
-internet
11. Seismograph. It is an instrument that makes a record of seismic waves caused by an
earthquake, explosion, or other Earth-shaking phenomenon.
12. Zhang Heng. Who invented the first seismograph?
13. 1880. When was the modern seismograph invented?
14. Earthquake Weathercock. What is the first seismograph called?
15. Stethoscope. It is a medical instrument used to listen to sounds produced in the body,
especially those that emanate from the heart and lungs.
16. The first stethoscope was invented in 1861 by? Rene Laennec
17. The Laennec Stethoscope is a cylindrical stethoscope made with three parts fitting
together by wood screw thread and brass tube fitting with an overall length of 1.5 inches
and a diameter of 12.6 inches. – False
18. American Peter Cooper Hewitt patented the first mercury vapor lamp in 1910. - False,
1901
19. Edmund Garner invented a high-pressure vapor lamp, his development of the improved
fluorescent lamp and the high-pressure mercury-vapor lamp allowed for more economical
lighting with less heat. -False, Edmund Germer
20. Alexandre E. Becquerel, a French physicist, investigated the phenomena of fluorescence
and phosphorescence theorized about the building of fluorescent tubes similar to those
made today. -True