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Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (9 results returned)

#17, aired 2023-05-23	IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $1000: This 19th century Englishman noted for his experiments in motion photography, as seen in the photos here (Edward) Muybridge
#5454, aired 2008-05-01	19th CENTURY INVENTORS $200: In 1880 he invented the photophone, which transmitted speech via light waves Bell
#5454, aired 2008-05-01	19th CENTURY INVENTORS $400: In 1854 he demonstrated his elevator safety device by ascending in an elevator & having the rope cut (Elisha) Otis
#5454, aired 2008-05-01	19th CENTURY INVENTORS $800: He conceived the idea of his revolver pistol by observing a ship's capstan on a voyage to India in 1830 Colt
#5454, aired 2008-05-01	19th CENTURY INVENTORS $1000: In 1837 he developed the steel plow & tested it on Lewis Crandall's farm near Grand Detour, Illinois (John) Deere
#5454, aired 2008-05-01	19th CENTURY INVENTORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1863 this Swede developed a detonator for nitroglycerin that used shock rather than heat (Alfred) Nobel
#3530, aired 1999-12-31	19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: During the 1850s, these 2 inventors were on opposite sides of the "Sewing Machine War" Elias Howe & Isaac Singer
#1656, aired 1991-11-11	INVENTORS $1000: This 19th century inventor's father authored "Visible" to help teach the hearing-impaired to speak (Alexander Graham) Bell
#805, aired 1988-02-19	INVENTORS $200: Henry Deringer's invention, the 19th century got a bang out of it Deringer pistol

#7930, aired 2019-02-15	19th CENTURY INVENTORS: He spent his life improving a plant-based substance he described as a "vegetable leather" or "elastic metal" Charles Goodyear
#5236, aired 2007-05-21	19th CENTURY INVENTORS: He wrote, "Isn't it the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitroglycerin to be taken internally" Alfred Nobel

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