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What is an invention?
Something that has never been made before.
What is a discovery?
The process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that is found.
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Who invented the airplane?
Wright Brothers
Who invented paper and when?
The Chinese in the 2nd century CE.
Why was the invention of the engine so significant?
It helped to begin the Industrial Revolution.
Who invented penicillin? Why was it vitally important then?
Alexander Fleming. The discovery of penicillin, one of the world’s first antibiotics, gave a tool that could completely cure their patients of deadly diseases.
Who invented the computer and when?
Konrad Zuse, between 1936 and 1938.
