Quick Quirks Quiz Book, The - Science & Technology Edition

di Janet Spencer (Autore)

Trivia Queen Enterprises, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Test your knowledge of the things that make our lives easier in these 28 true tales behind researchers and their discoveries. Can you match the inventors to their inventions after hearing the story behind their development? Test yourself with this sample question: A DEADLY WEAPON: Henry was born in 1761 in Britain. At the age of 18, he joined the army and by the age of 22 he had achieved the rank of second lieutenant. At this time he started working independently on a new weapon. He devoted all his spare time and much of his money to the project. Twenty years later, due to his persistence, his new anti-personnel weapon was adopted by the British and Henry was subsequently promoted to lieutenant colonel. The weapon, called a Spherical Case Shot, was a shell filled with musket balls and a powder charge that was set off in mid-air, scattering the shot over a large area. Manufacture of the new weapon began in 1803 and over 75,000 were made before the end of the year. It helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo. Henry was eventually promoted to lieutenant general and received a modest pension for his invention. He died in 1802 at age 41. Ten years after his death, the weapon was named after him after his family petitioned the government. His name has now come to mean any loose fragment that does great harm. What was Henry’s last name?

• Autore: Janet Spencer
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 01:11:00
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Trivia Queen Enterprises
• EAN: 9798318278549

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