1. In 1698 which English engineer and inventor built and patented the first steam engine?

2. Which was an English ironmaster who was the first person to successfully smelt iron ore with the coal product coke?

3. In 1835 which American inventor patented the revolver?

4. In 1856 which inventor and engineer developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively?

5. Which inventor and engineer discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery?

6. In 1882 the world’s first hydroelectric central station, which used water turbines to create energy, was built in which American city?

7. Who created the first motor vehicle used as a weapons carrier—a powered quadricycle on which a machine gun was mounted?

8. In 1941 which American chemist developed the first commercially practical aerosol container, designed to dispense its liquid contents as a mist or foam?

9. In 1910 which French chemist patented the first commercially feasible neon lamp?

10. In 1891 who patented the first solar hot-water system to be sold commercially?

11. Which is credited with the invention of Greek fire, a highly incendiary liquid that was projected from “siphons” onto enemy ships or troops and was almost impossible to extinguish?

12. Which was an artillery expert who invented spherical case shot in 1784?

13. In 1783 which Scottish engineer introduced the horsepower as a unit of work?

14. Which weapon, likely of Welsh origin, first came into use in England about 1290?

15. In 1652 which city became the site of a small aqueduct system as part of the first waterworks built in England’s American colonies?

16. In 1860 which American firearms manufacturer invented the first successful repeating rifle?