Key Figures in Odd Inventions Crossword Puzzle for College
Size: 17Difficulty: easy
This easy crossword puzzle highlights important people behind strange and failed inventions. Perfect for college students interested in innovation and history.
Eccentric Contraptions and Forgotten Flops is a hard crossword puzzle with 13 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Eccentric Contraptions and Forgotten Flops
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Early device harnessing sound via rotary electricity
- 2. Device designed for airborne pest control—often backfired
- 3. Classical static electric generator, precursor with limited success
- 5. Obsolete combustion theory sparking many ill-fated devices
- 6. Water organ with convoluted mechanics, rarely functional
- 9. Failed typesetting machine with mechanical complexity
- 10. Ancient automaton concept misunderstood as self-regulating machine
- 11. Early aerodynamic gate prototype—never took flight
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- 4. Apparatus for fleeting visual perception — tough on memory
- 7. Hypothetical device intended to analyze mechanical flaws
- 8. Instrument blending fire and sound, proved highly impractical
- 12. Instrument intended to measure gravity—confounded by miscalibrations
- 13. Obscure failed invention meant to capture scents visually
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