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Obscure Innovators and Arcane Contraptions is a hard crossword puzzle with 10 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Obscure Innovators and Arcane Contraptions
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- 1. Instrument detecting minute electric currents, foundational to telegraphy technology
- 2. Mechanical precursor to fax machines, transmitting handwriting via telegraph lines
- 3. Forgotten gadget transforming ionizing radiation into visible flashes, crucial in early physics
- 6. Pioneer’s archaic biomedical viewer, an anagram of 'history scope'
- 7. Cryptic device for recording tactile inscriptions, coined from Greek roots 'kno-' (knob) and 'graph'
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- 4. Early static electricity generator with Greek roots meaning 'electric carrier'
- 5. Device envisioned for graphically transcribing bird flight patterns, now lost
- 8. Term describing shape key to forgotten lens inventors’ optical breakthroughs
- 9. Obsolete instrument devised to measure subtle vibrations in botanical specimens
- 10. Inventor's lost device said to manipulate 'quintessence' in Victorian science
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