The Annual Quiz [Microwave Surfing]

Some years ago, IEEE Press published a selection of my columns as a book,
From ER to E.T.

[1]
, which carried the subtitle
How Electromagnetic Technologies Are Changing Our Lives
. Naturally, I was intrigued by science writer Brian Clegg’s new book
Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World

[2]
, subtitled
How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life
. Clegg describes
[2]
how 10 “key breakthroughs in physics—and physics-based engineering—have transformed the world we live in.” You may not agree with all the author’s choices, but it will be fun to take a quick tour of the book through the short quiz in the following. It is time to grab a pen and test your knowledge of the history of physics! No Googling allowed. The answers appear elsewhere in this issue.