Quiz: Engineering Oddities
Quiz: Engineering Oddities
Engineers develop far more than just infrastructure and vehicles. Test your knowledge of some lesser known engineering inventions with this ASME quiz.
When thinking of engineering’s contributions to society, it’s often the big things that come to mind—airplanes, bridges, and buildings, to name a few. But there are plenty of unusual and lesser known items for which engineers are responsible.
From the home to the office, the toy box to the backyard, some of these items came about as an engineer was looking to solve one problem, only for the invention to address an entirely different one. Test your knowledge about some engineering oddities with this ASME quiz.
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