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Victorian Inventions and Discoveries

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

The electric light bulb Henry Bessemer

The theory of evolution Thomas Edison

The photograph Alexander Graham Bell

The telephone James Simpson

The use of antiseptic spray to prevent infection Joseph Swan

The steel-converter William Fox Talbot

Chloroform as an anaesthetic Pierre and Marie Curie

The phonograph Charles Darwin

Radium Joseph Lister