Which pairing of an inventor and an invention is correct?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Josef Ressel with the ship propeller, Prokop Diviš with the lightning rod, and Otto Wichterle with the soft contact lens
- Step 1: Match each person with the period. Step 2. Diviš lived in the eighteenth century, Ressel in the early nineteenth and Wichterle in the twentieth. Answer: Josef Ressel with the ship propeller, Prokop Diviš with the lightning rod, and Otto Wichterle with the soft contact lens. Why not the others: The others swap the inventions.
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