Famous Inventors Crossword Puzzle

About the Famous Inventors Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle features inventors from different eras and fields, including Nikola Tesla, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and the Wright brothers. The names span discoveries and devices connected to electricity, computing, communication, and flight. It is a good fit for students learning about innovation, as well as anyone curious about the people behind familiar technologies.

This crossword draws on 41 clues about Famous Inventors. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Swedish chemist who invented dynamite (11 letters)
• •Telephone pioneer Alexander Graham ___ (4 letters)
• •Scientist who discovered radium with her husband (5 letters)
• •Steamboat pioneer who popularized commercial river travel (6 letters)
• •Chemist who invented the strong fiber Kevlar (6 letters)
• •Inventor of a successful mechanical grain reaper (9 letters)
• •Ophthalmologist who invented laser cataract surgery (12 letters)
• •Microwave oven inventor Percy ___ (7 letters)

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