Cumulative General Science/Technology Quiz

[Mise]

Well I've just done one but that's to do with certain things like charge and other forces in tensors and matrix maths is it neutral or charged, but purely in maths it just means AxB=BxA.

Yup, that's correct. Guess it's one of those things that you either know or don't... silly question I guess

 

[Sidhe]

Yup, that's correct. Guess it's one of those things that you either know or don't... silly question I guess

I shouldn't know it it's degree level stuff really, but I happened to be reading about it recently, it's just like my first question. I leave the field open anyway.

 

[Ozbenno]

What was the Staffelwalze (Stepped Reckoner)?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Its a 17th century mechanical calculator that was the first to be able to do all 4 arithmetic operations (They have a model and a description of it in the nearby Computer Museum)

 

[Ozbenno]

Yup, designed by Leibniz.

 

[Sidhe]

edit for bottle

 

[Rik Meleet]

Easy one: who invented the light bulb.

The first glass "enclosed" filament bulb to be more precise I suppose.

Oooo. QI - alert !!

Spoiler :

(I read on this just a couple of weeks ago and it's not Edison. Can't remember who it was though)

 

[Sidhe]

Though shalt not take the name of Stephen Fry in vain.

 

[LAnkou]

James watt?

EDIT: just checked, and nope...

 

[Sidhe]

I predict that someone will say Edison and make themselves look like a right plum.

 

[brennan]

Although Edison is credited with tons of inventions, most of them were actually developed by people working for him.

The first invention of the light bulb was nothing to do with Edison IIRC, he just produced the first commercially viable version.

 

[Sidhe]

If Mise says Marconi I will kill him!

 

[Mise]

Marconi ?

 

[Sidhe]

Mise.

Sorry You know the rules.

 

[Mise]

Well I have no idea, so I'm just going to list everyone I know who did stuff with electricity

Ampere, Maxwell, Faraday, Telsa, Ohm, Henry, Joule, Volta... k can't think of anyone else . It was probably later than these fellows anyway though.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Oi, while I was going to open the floor since I couldnt think of anything, you have to respect the rules Sidhe. it was not your turn.

 

[Sidhe]

Well I have no idea, so I'm just going to list everyone I know who did stuff with electricity

Ampere, Maxwell, Faraday, Telsa, Ohm, Henry, Joule, Volta... k can't think of anyone else . It was probably later than these fellows anyway though.

I'm warning you, you're already due assassination, don't make it worse for yourself!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

If you're going to leave posting a question for 4 hours, then what would you expect? We haven't got all day and in the mean time, not everyone runs on yank time. So while were waiting I thought why not? And besides I thought this one would take 2 seconds, but it's obviously not as well known as I thought.

Rules schmulez anyway, if you aren't going to post a question for ninety seven hours then it should be common courtesy to just yield. In fact it should be one of the rules.

The rules give me 72 hours and I was thinking of one. If you can't play by the rules, dont play at all.

 

[Sidhe]

The rules give me 72 hours and I was thinking of one. If you can't play by the rules, dont play at all.

Stop being such a baby. Ok in future I wont play sionara.

72 hours what fool came up with that?

I didn't read the rules anyway, and frankly if there that stupid then there's no point in me playing.

Honestly 72 hours? Anyway deleting my question so stickciv doesn't have a paddy on me.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Stop being such a baby. Ok in future I wont play sionara, .

72 hours what fool came up with that?

I didn't read the rules anyway, and frankly if there that stupid then there's no point in me playing.

The OP came up with those rules, and frankly, they're a lot better than letting it be a free-for-all.

Maybe in the future, read the rules. It might just be the smart thing to do if you have no idea whats going on.