Famous Inventors Word Search

Words in the Famous Inventors word search

Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.

edison

American inventor of the phonograph and a practical light bulb

bell

Alexander Graham Bell patented the first useful telephone

wright

Brothers who built and flew the first powered airplane

ford

Henry Ford used moving assembly lines to build cheap cars

tesla

Designed motors and systems for alternating current electricity

morse

Developed the telegraph and the dot and dash code

franklin

Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses

gutenberg

German who built the first European printing press with movable type

diesel

Rudolf Diesel invented the engine that carries his name

watt

James Watt greatly improved the early steam engine

marconi

Sent the first radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean

daguerre

Created an early photograph process using silver coated plates

johnson

Lonnie Johnson, NASA engineer, invented the pressurised water gun

eastman

George Eastman made roll film and simple cameras for everyone

berliner

Emile Berliner invented the flat record disc and its player

montgolfier

Brothers who launched the first hot air balloon flights

sikorsky

Built the first practical single rotor helicopter in America

whitney

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin for cleaning cotton

mccoy

Elijah McCoy invented an automatic oil cup for train engines

lamarr

Hedy Lamarr co-invented signal hopping used in wireless today

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