Inventions

Belgian genre of electronic music

Rotating disc with segments in rainbow colours that appears as white or grey when spun fast

Type of reflecting telescope

Optical polarizer made of two birefrengent calcite crystals

Japanese multi-colored woodblock printing

Lightweight prefabricated structure

Lightweight prefabricated structure

Highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or to another nitrating agent

Measuring tool used in navigation and astronomy

Picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture

Communication process developed by Marshall Rosenberg

Bronze Age in Scandinavia

French front-of-package nutrition label

Space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill

Type of plant milk

Measuring instrument used primarily in navigation; type of reflecting instrument

Salad dish

3d convex hull of two orthogonal circles through each others' centers

Early electronic musical instrument

Collapsible hat styled like a top hat

Keyed brass instrument

Latin phrase and Benedictine motto and invocation

Horse breed

Medical device used to maintain or open a patient’s airway

Medical device used to maintain or open a patient’s airway

Art movement

Medical aid for the treatment of bone fractures

Used for measuring waves

Chemical process for producing nitric acid from ammonia and oxygen

Flat wooden board with numbers and letters

2016 document leak scandal

Sheer stockings woven in one with panties

Bag made out of paper

Any of several styles of tool (guillotine, scorer, rolling blade) specialised for cutting paper

Mechanical device used to cut paper into fine strips or pieces

Device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle for a limited amount of time

Mechanical calculator

Train carrying passengers

Process in which certain foods are treated with mild heat in order to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life

Type of barcode

Type of dessert

Type of turbine

Writing implement

Device for sharpening a pencil's writing point by shaving away its worn surface

Timekeeping device

World's first adhesive postage stamp

Bicycle with a large front wheel and a much smaller rear wheel

Impossible object

Impossible object

Soft drink owned and manufactured by PepsiCo

Table systematically placing elements based on atomic number and recurrent properties

Computer bus and expansion card standard

Agriculture practices using few energy resources and human intervention

Type of marker pen that is used to create permanent or semi-permanent writing on an object

Brand of laundry detergent

Collectible

Shallow dish on which biological cultures may be grown and/or viewed

First widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion of motion

Earliest known device for recording sound, transcribing sound waves onto paper or glass

Device for the analogue recording and playback of sound