| BUNSEN | German chemist best known for his invention of an adjustable gas burner used in laboratories and for co-discovering caesium and rubidium (6) |
| ETNA | Gas burner used in laboratories |
| SNOW | CP _, English novelist and chemist best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers And Brothers (4) |
| NASMYTH | Artist and engineer best-known for his invention of the steam hammer whose self-portrait in pastel is held by the National Galleries of Scotland (7) |
| VOLTA | Italian physicist, born 1745, known for his invention of the battery and discovering methane (5) |
| LIEBIG | German scientist known for his invention used to condense vapours (6) |
| TESLA | Engineer noted for his invention of the first AC motor and work on highfrequencies and vibrations (5) |
| WILSON | Charles Thomson Rees -; recipient of a Nobel Prize for his invention of the cloud chamber (6) |
| BENTLEY | E.C., English journalist noted for his invention of the clerihew (7) |
| NEHRU | Swedish chemist and engineer whose fortune that was accumulated from his invention of dynamite enabled him to institute a series of prizes awarded for outstanding work (5) |
| FRANGIPANE | Named after an Italian marquis or his invention of a plumeria-based fragrance for scenting gloves, a rich almond-vanilla pastry cream, used as a filling for a Bakewell tart, galette des rois or other |
| OTIS | His invention of a safety brake for his elevators made the high-rise building safe and practicable, |
| NOBEL | Chemist who bequeathed the money he accrued from his invention of dynamite to set up a series of awards (5) |
| EASTMAN | Founder of the Kodak camera empire based on his invention of the roll of film negative, George ... (7) |
| EDISON | His invention of the direct current electrical generator lost out to the alternating current options of Tesla and Westinghouse, Thomas Alva ... |
| ROBERTBUNSEN | German chemist who devised a kind of burner used as laboratory equipment (6,6) |
| FAHRENHEIT | Scientific instrument maker and physicist who devised a temperature scale to go with his invention of the mercury-in-glass thermometer (10) |
| OXYACETYLENE | Type of burner used in welding (12) |
| SHOCKEDEVERYONE | Proving his invention of the joy buzzer to be a complete success, Adams ___ |
| PETRI | Shallow dish used in laboratories for producing cultures of microorganisms (5) |
