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Trivia Questions

Buckminster Fuller used "energetic synergetic geometry" to build these structures

Using a kite antenna, he received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, the letter S

A box of 64 Crayola crayons has one of these devices "built-in"

This unit of weight is abbreviated mg.

Hans Lippershey, who invented this instrument in 1608, called it a "looker"

To stop staining, Farah makes men's slacks coated with this, usually found on cookware

The first modern ones of these, called Lucifers, were invented in 1827 & struck on sandpaper

Cesium was the first element found by this process using the band of colored light produced by a prism

While Pascal's could only add & subtract, Leibniz' could multiply

These were made more accurate in the late 1600s with the inventions of the pendulum & balance spring