1. What was the first continuously published newspaper in the American colonies?

2. Where was the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica published?

3. Who discovered the Rosetta Stone near Alexandria, Egypt, in 1799?

4. Who was the first to make a permanent photographic image?

5. Who invented the stereoscope, a device for observing pictures in three dimensions?

6. What was the name of the first prepaid postage stamp used in England?

7. Who coined the term microphone?

8. Who patented the first single-lens reflex camera?

9. Who produced the first commercially successful typewriter?

10. Who patented a photographic “film” that used gel spread over paper?

11. Who founded the first film production company in France, which created more than 400 films from 1896 to 1913?

12. Which Canadian inventor made the first radio broadcast?

13. Who was the Scottish engineer to first televise pictures of objects in motion?

14. Which Scottish physicist used the principle of echolocation to develop radar?

15. Who made a public demonstration of instant photography in 1947?

16. What is the name of the active communications satellite that allowed the first exchange of television programs between the United States and Europe?

17. Who developed the first machine that could read printed text and produce a synthesized speech output?

18. What is the name of the world’s lightest and smallest wearable phone, produced by Motorola, Inc., in 1996?

19. What is the name of the first passive communications satellite, launched into orbit by the United States in 1960?