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A) 1923 B) 1847 C) 1901 D) 1876
A) Automobile B) Telephone C) Light bulb D) Television
A) Scotland B) United States C) England D) Germany
A) Painter B) Inventor C) Musician D) Athlete
A) Edison Laboratory B) Tesla Laboratory C) Einstein Laboratory D) Volta Laboratory
A) Leonardo da Vinci B) Isaac Newton C) Charles Darwin D) Alexander Melville Bell
A) Albert Einstein B) Nikola Tesla C) Thomas Edison D) Marie Curie
A) Sign Language B) Morse Code C) Visible Speech D) Braille
A) Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you. B) Can you hear me now? C) Let's talk later. D) Hello, how are you?
A) His mother's gradual deafness B) His father's work on elocution C) A childhood accident D) His brother's death from tuberculosis
A) Alexander Melville Bell B) Ben Herdman C) Edward Charles Bell D) Melville James Bell
A) Visible Speech B) The Standard Elocutionist C) An Introduction to Acoustics D) A Manual of Deaf-Mute Instruction
A) Graham B) Melville C) Edward D) James
A) H. A. Largelamb B) L. H. Graham C) G. A. Bell D) A. G. Bellman
A) An early telephone prototype B) A phonograph C) A telegraph machine D) A simple dehusking machine
A) Music teacher B) Engineer C) Physician D) Phonetician
A) The piano B) The violin C) Singing D) Painting
A) 100 B) 168 C) 500 D) 250,000
A) Because he wanted to study at University College London B) To travel to London with his grandfather C) He had completed only the first four forms and was marked by absenteeism and lacklustre grades. D) Due to a family emergency
A) Hermann von Helmholtz B) Alexander Ellis C) Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen D) Sir Charles Wheatstone
A) A mechanical man that could walk B) An elocution machine C) Their own automaton head. D) A talking dog
A) The family's Skye Terrier, Trouve. B) A cat C) A parrot D) A horse
A) An assistant to his father B) A student at the University of Edinburgh C) A 'pupil-teacher' of elocution and music at Weston House Academy. D) A researcher in biology
A) Helmholtz criticized his experiments B) He realized he needed to learn German C) He discovered errors in his own research D) He found that groundbreaking work had already been undertaken by Helmholtz.
A) The transmission of sound using tuning forks. B) Studying animal behavior C) Building more automatons D) Developing musical instruments
A) Scotland B) Canada C) France D) United States
A) A school B) A laboratory C) An office D) A workshop
A) Mohawk B) Ojibwe C) Inuktitut D) Cree
A) Cultural Ambassador B) Language Specialist C) Honorary Chief D) Chief Linguist
A) Vancouver B) Ottawa C) Montreal D) Toronto
A) Paris, Ontario B) Montreal, Quebec C) Toronto, Ontario D) Ottawa, Ontario
A) A piano B) A violin C) A melodeon D) A guitar
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) Gardiner Greene Hubbard C) Sarah Fuller D) Helen Keller
A) Boston School for Deaf Mutes B) American Asylum for Deaf-mutes C) Clarke School for the Deaf D) Horace Mann School for the Deaf
A) Brantford B) London C) Boston D) Hartford, Connecticut
A) 30 B) 100 C) 15 D) 50
A) Helen Keller B) Sarah Fuller C) Alexander Graham Bell Jr. D) Gardiner Greene Hubbard
A) $10,000 B) $25,000 C) $50,000 D) $100,000
A) 1872 B) 1880 C) 1865 D) 1875
A) An encrypted journal B) A specially made table with a locking cover C) A secret code for his notes D) A hidden basement laboratory
A) Baddeck, Nova Scotia B) Washington, D.C. C) Cambridge, Massachusetts D) Nova Scotia, Canada
A) Summer B) Spring C) Autumn D) Winter
A) Finding alternative fuels B) Creating better phonographs C) Inventing more efficient photophones D) Developing new telephones
A) Antonio Meucci B) Amos Dolbear C) Thomas Edison D) Elisha Gray
A) HD-4 B) Forlanini Hydrofoil C) Bell's Speedster D) Dhonnas Beag
A) Six months B) Five years C) Two years D) One year
A) Red Wing B) White Wing C) Silver Dart D) June Bug
A) The Lodge B) Beinn Bhreagh C) Baddeck House D) Bell Estate
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) William E. Meacham C) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin D) Enrico Forlanini
A) 700 B) 587 C) 300 D) 450
A) July 1, 1919 B) December 25, 1919 C) January 1, 1920 D) September 9, 1919
A) None B) Two C) Five D) Ten
A) Canada B) Europe C) United States D) United Kingdom
A) Both died in infancy B) They became inventors C) They moved to Canada D) They joined the U.S. Navy
A) New York, USA B) Berlin, Germany C) Brussels, Belgium D) London, UK
A) Georgie Sanders B) Mabel Hubbard C) Thomas Sanders D) Gardiner Greene
A) Anthony Pollok B) George Brown C) Marcellus Bailey D) Zenas Fisk Wilber
A) March 12, 1908 B) September 17, 1908 C) February 23, 1909 D) November 1883
A) 1886 B) 1913 C) 1901 D) 1896
A) Methane gas B) Electricity C) Solar energy D) Coal
A) Severe headaches B) Insomnia C) Nausea and dizziness D) Fever
A) Bell did not have enough time to test it B) The device was turned off during the examination C) The President's bed frame disturbed the instrument D) There were no bullets present
A) 1906 B) 1891 C) 1921 D) 1910
A) 700 feet (213 meters) B) 500 yards C) 1 mile D) 1000 feet
A) A failed experiment B) A very significant achievement C) An insignificant development D) A minor improvement
A) December 1880 B) January 1881 C) June 1880 D) November 1879
A) 1912 B) 1885 C) 1891 D) 1907
A) Hydrogen B) Solar energy C) Methane gas D) Electricity
A) Alec McCowen B) John Bach C) Charlotte Gray D) John Tench
A) Doctor Willard Bliss B) Dr. Alexander Graham Bell C) Dr. Charles Sumner Tainter D) Dr. James A. Garfield
A) 12 B) 18 C) 30 D) 26
A) Thomas Edison B) William Orton C) Joseph Henry D) Anthony Pollok
A) Red Wing B) White Wing C) Silver Dart D) June Bug
A) November 30, 1897 B) January 13, 1887 C) March 7, 1876 D) June 11, 2002
A) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin B) Walter Pinaud C) Enrico Forlanini D) William E. Meacham
A) Lectures B) Sales from his laboratory C) Inventor fees D) Shares in the Bell Telephone Company
A) The phonograph B) The photophone C) The telephone D) The metal detector
A) Western Union B) The Dominion Telegraph Company C) Edison's company D) The Bell Telephone Company
A) A Sign of Her Own B) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell C) Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention D) Murdoch Mysteries
A) 500-horsepower engines B) 250-horsepower engines C) 350-horsepower (260-kilowatt) engines D) 100-horsepower engines
A) Four miles (six kilometres) B) Eight miles (thirteen kilometres) C) Three hundred and forty miles D) Two miles
A) Dancing B) Reading lips C) Playing the piano D) Writing poetry
A) Not listed B) 57th place C) 1st place D) 100th place
A) Ten years B) Five years C) Twenty years D) Fifteen years
A) Queen's University at Kingston B) Heidelberg University C) Harvard University D) University of Edinburgh
A) University of St Andrews B) University of Oxford C) The George Washington University D) Illinois College
A) Dartmouth College B) University of Würzburg C) Illinois College D) Harvard University
A) An audiometer B) A hydroairplane C) A photophone D) A metal jacket
A) The process B) The distance of the call C) The sound quality D) The cost of the equipment
A) In 1915 B) In 1897 C) In 1882 D) In 1877
A) An electromagnetic telegraph B) The phonautograph C) Gray's water transmitter design D) A mercury-based variable resistance device
A) 1896 B) 1886 C) 1913, possibly 1914 D) 1908
A) A liquid transmitter B) A phonautograph C) An electromagnetic telegraph D) A harmonic telegraph
A) 12 B) 26 C) 18 D) 30
A) Baddeck, Nova Scotia B) Hammondsport, New York C) Fort Myer, Virginia D) Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia
A) Walter Pinaud B) Alexander Graham Bell C) William E. Meacham D) Enrico Forlanini
A) Thomas A. Watson B) Gardiner Hubbard C) Elisha Gray D) Alexander Graham Bell
A) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin B) Enrico Forlanini C) Walter Pinaud D) William E. Meacham
A) Wear white as a symbol of peace B) Bring flowers instead of wearing any specific color C) Not wear black, the traditional funeral color D) Attend in silence without any music
A) English B) Scottish Gaelic C) French D) Italian |