Explanation

Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid, is a drug used to relieve pain, fever, or inflammation.

Aspirin was invented by German chemist Felix Hoffmann in 1897.

Explanation

The first firm to mass-market a microcomputer as a personal computer was Radio Shaks

Release date: August 3, 1977; 45 years ago

The name is an abbreviation of Tandy Radio Shack, Z80 [microprocessor].

 It is one of the earliest mass-produced and mass-marketed retail home computers.

Explanation

• The world's first portable computer was the Osborne 1,
• Introduced by Adam Osborne and his company on April 3, 1981.

Explanation

Karl Marx was a German philosopher during the 19th century.

Born on 5 May 1818, Trier, Prussia, German Confederation

Died in 1883  (aged 64) in London, England

Burial place: The Tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery

Explanation

The multiple nuclei model is an economical model

The multiple nuclei model is created by Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman in the 1945  article "The Nature of Cities"

The model describes the layout of a city, based on Chicago Chicago, Illinois, a city that outgrew its CBD

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Explanation

Theodolite is a precision optical instrument for measuring angles between designated visible points in the horizontal and vertical planes.

Theodolite was invented by Leonard Digges (United Kingdom)

Explanation

Shirley Ann Jackson (1946-present) is a theoretical physicist.

Her research and experiments paved the way for the creation of:

• fiber optic cables
• touch-tone telephones
• caller ID
• and call waiting.

Awards: National Medal of Science for Physical Science

while

Fiber optics was invented by Thomas Mensah

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Explanation

A scanner scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image. 

Scanner is an output device. 

Scanner founder: Russell Kirsch

Russell Kirsch belongs to USA.

Explanation

The hard disk was invented on September 13, 1956, by an IBM team led by Rey Johnson

The commercial usage of hard disk drives (HDD) began in 1957

Rey Johnson (considered as “father” of the disk drive).

A computer hard disk drive is a non-volatile data storage device.

Hard Disk is an example of Magnetic Storage

Explanation

Google, a US multinational technology company

Google is a type of search engine operating since 1997

Google was founded in the year: September 4, 1998

The Headquarters of Google is located in the city: of California

Sergen Brin & Larry Page is the founder of Google

Sergey Brin is the real owner of Google

Parent organization: Alphabet Inc.

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