Technological inventions quiz
Below is a list in random order of 10 significant technological developments that took place in the last 80 years. Your challenge is to place them (you can use the numbers - no need to repeat all the text) in order as to when they took place – starting with the earliest. No use of reference material or the internet of course to ensure fair play. Good luck.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to midnight tonight. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. Production begins of the Sinclair C5
2. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor
3. The Space Shuttle makes its maiden voyage
4. Compact discs (CDs) are launched as a new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations.
5. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs launch the Apple I: one of the world's first personal home computers
6. Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.
7. World's first solar power station opened in France
8. Japanese Masahiro Hara invents the QR Code®.
9. Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at the University of Chicago.
10. First grocery-store purchase of an item coded with a barcode
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to midnight tonight. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. Production begins of the Sinclair C5
2. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor
3. The Space Shuttle makes its maiden voyage
4. Compact discs (CDs) are launched as a new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations.
5. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs launch the Apple I: one of the world's first personal home computers
6. Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.
7. World's first solar power station opened in France
8. Japanese Masahiro Hara invents the QR Code®.
9. Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at the University of Chicago.
10. First grocery-store purchase of an item coded with a barcode
