GK - Inventions and Discoveries

11.

Corn flakes the cereal was created by

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Option B

Explanation :


The cereal was created by John Harvey Kellogg in 1894 as a food that he thought would be healthy for the patients of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan where he was superintendent.
The breakfast cereal proved popular among the patients and the Kellogg Company (Kellogg's) was set up by Dr. John's brother, Will Kellogg, to produce corn flakes for the wider public.
12.

For over 500 years, paper was only available and sold as single sheets. In 1902, an inventive Australian used half size sheets of paper, a bit of glue and cardboard to create

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Option A

Explanation :


Birchall's of Launceston in Tasmania started selling the world’s first notepads, calling them 'Silvercity Writing Tablets' after J A Birchall thought it would be a good idea to back sheets of paper with cardboard and glue them together at the top.
13.

For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

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Option C

Explanation :


King Louis XIV was very short and didn't like looking up at people he spoke to, so he had a tall pair of shoes made for him.
14.

Who invented Frequency Modulation FM radio ?

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Option C

Explanation :


Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong.
15.

IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) technique was first devised by

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Option D
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