Packet 5: Bonus 13

For 10 points each, answer the following about African inventions in the field of “appropriate technology,” which applies E. F. Schumacher’s ideas to find affordable solutions to low-resource problems.
[10e] Ugandan inventor Moses Kizza Musaazi founded Technology for Tomorrow to spread appropriate technology projects like bricks free of this chemical binder, whose Portland variety developed from hydraulic lime.
ANSWER: cement [accept Portland cement or hydraulic cement]
[10m] Malawian student William Kamkwamba went to Dartmouth after he wrote a bestselling memoir about building one of these devices from blue gum tree trunks and bicycle parts.
ANSWER: windmills [accept wind turbines; accept The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind]
[10h] Senegalese engineer Sanoussi Diakité won a Rolex Award for Enterprise for a machine to husk this West African millet. Chef Pierre Thiam (“tee-AHM”) sells this grain under his brand Yolélé Foods.
ANSWER: fonio [or findi or acha; or Digitaria or D. exilis and D. iburua]
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BrownStanford B100010E
CambridgeNorth Carolina100010E
Chicago AGeorgetown100010E
CornellNYU B100010E
Georgia Tech BMaryland B1010020EM
HarvardTexas100010E
Maryland AWaterloo100010E
MichiganIllinois B0000
MinnesotaToronto A100010E
NYU AIllinois A100010E
Northwestern ABruin1010020EM
Ohio StateGeorgia Tech A1010020EM
Penn StatePurdue100010E
PittsburghColumbia B1010020EM
RutgersBritish Columbia100010E
Stanford AChicago B1010020EM
Toronto BGeorgia Tech C1010020EM
UC Berkeley AUCF100010E
UC Berkeley BJohns Hopkins100010E
VirginiaColumbia A100010E
Virginia TechUCLA100010E

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