#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $800: Mary Engle Pennington was an innovator in this, keeping milk & other stuff safely cold, & a VP of the American Institute of it refrigeration |
#7695, aired 2018-02-09 | THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAMER $2000: This American "pioneered modern rocketry and space flight... held 214 patents in rocketry" (Robert) Goddard |
#7239, aired 2016-02-18 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $400: The first of these was invented by Willis Carrier to control humidity in a Brooklyn printing plant an air conditioner |
#7239, aired 2016-02-18 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $800: In 1906 Frank Rose made these pest killers by attaching squares of window screens to yardsticks fly swatters |
#7239, aired 2016-02-18 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a naval blueprint on the monitor.) A pumping piston was connected to a steam engine & to the two paddle wheels on the side of the ship designed by this man, who came to fame in 1807 (Robert) Fulton |
#7239, aired 2016-02-18 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $1600: Some believe that Catherine Greene, his benefactor, came up with the idea of using wire teeth to separate cotton from seeds (Eli) Whitney |
#7239, aired 2016-02-18 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $2000: In 1929 he launched a rocket in Auburn, Mass. containing a camera & a barometer (Robert) Goddard |
#6807, aired 2014-04-01 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1,400 (Daily Double): Last name of American inventor Ray, whose noise-reduction system eliminated that background hiss on recordings Dolby |
#6732, aired 2013-12-17 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $400: You have Albert Butz to thank for this little device that controls the temperature in your house thermostat |
#6732, aired 2013-12-17 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $800: In 1871 he began giving instructions in "visible speech" at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes Alexander Graham Bell |
#6732, aired 2013-12-17 | AMERICAN INVENTORS $1200: In 1875 dentist George Green patented the electric version of this device, improving on his pedal-powered one drill |
#6682, aired 2013-10-08 | THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $400: "Developed the first American cast steel plow"; inc. in 1868, "his business, is still in existence today" John Deere |
#6450, aired 2012-10-05 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $400 (Daily Double): (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Dr. Charles Drew saved the lives of soldiers & civilians in WWII when he improved blood banks by finding a long-term storage method for this blood liquid plasma |
#6450, aired 2012-10-05 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $400: (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) The son of slaves who taught himself to be a draftsman, Lewis Latimer drew the blueprints for this man's telephone patent, which won a patent race (Alexander Graham) Bell |
#6450, aired 2012-10-05 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $800: (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Granville T. Woods enabled moving trains to communicate with each other & with railray stations, reducing collisions & saving lives via the electric induction telegraph, which used existing telegraph lines & a coil in the train to produce this field around the train electromagnetic |
#4928, aired 2006-02-01 | INVENTORS $1000: Around 1862 this American locksmith introduced a dial-operated combination lock for bank vaults Linus Yale |
#3916, aired 2001-09-17 | INVENTORS $400: There was little demand for his revolver until the Mexican-American War when the U.S. government ordered 1,000 (Samuel) Colt |
#2987, aired 1997-09-02 | INVENTORS $800: This Russian-American TV pioneer developed the iconoscope in 1923 & kinescope in 1924 Vladimir Zworykin |
#2868, aired 1997-02-05 | INVENTORS $1000: In 1929 this American launched the first instrument-carrying rocket Robert Goddard |
#2801, aired 1996-11-04 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $800 (Daily Double): As a child this American inventor was called Finley Samuel F.B. Morse |
#2761, aired 1996-09-09 | INVENTORS $600: Black inventor Garrett Morgan developed the gas mask first used by American soldiers during this war World War I |
#2701, aired 1996-05-06 | INVENTORS $400: This American's first steamboat was successfully tested in France on the Seine River in 1803 Fulton |
#2629, aired 1996-01-25 | INVENTORS $400: At the 1889 Paris Centennial Exposition, 1/4 of the American exhibit space was devoted to his inventions Thomas Edison |
#2592, aired 1995-12-05 | INVENTORS $600: This American inventor of the microphone became a commander of the French Legion of Honor in 1889 Thomas Alva Edison |
#2453, aired 1995-04-12 | INVENTORS $200: In 1803 this American launched a steam-driven paddle-wheel boat on the Seine River Fulton |
#2442, aired 1995-03-28 | INVENTORS & SCIENTISTS $400: Element number 99 is named for this German-American physicist Einstein |
#2332, aired 1994-10-25 | INVENTORS $400: George Westinghouse was a Navy engineer during this war & later devised a turbine engine for ships the Civil War |
#2244, aired 1994-05-12 | INVENTORS $1,500 (Daily Double): This Italian-American led the team that produced the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942 (Enrico) Fermi |
#2008, aired 1993-05-05 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): The National Accelerator Lab near Batavia, Illinois is named for this Italian-American physicist (Enrico) Fermi |
#1892, aired 1992-11-24 | INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $800: For his development of the neutronic reactor, this Italian-American was elected in 1976 (Enrico) Fermi |
#1892, aired 1992-11-24 | INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $1000: In 1987 this American inventor was elected for his calculating or adding machine William Burroughs |