Simultaneous inventions

Question 1

What two people invented calculus around the same time?

Answer 1

Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Question 2

What two scientists independently developed the idea of natural selection?

Answer 2

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace

Question 3

What two inventors were competing to patent the telephone on the same day?

Answer 3

Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray

Question 4

What two scientists helped prove that germs cause disease?

Answer 4

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

Question 5

What two inventors are associated with the early development of radio?

Answer 5

Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Tesla

Question 6

Which two men are most famous for the first successful powered airplane flight?

Answer 6

Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright

Question 7

Which two worked on flight at the same time, but only one group succeeded?

Answer 7

Wright brothers and Samuel Langley

Question 8

Which pair had a major dispute over who invented calculus first?

Answer 8

Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz