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Victorian Inventions and Discoveries

Can you match the names famous Victorians to their inventions or discoveries?

The electric light bulb Joseph Swan

The theory of evolution Charles Darwin

The photograph William Fox Talbot

The telephone Alexander Graham Bell

The use of antiseptic spray to prevent infection Joseph Lister

The steel-converter Henry Bessemer

Chloroform as an anaesthetic James Simpson

The phonograph Thomas Edison

Radium Pierre and Marie Curie