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A) 1847 B) 1856 C) 1879 D) 1901
A) Boston, Massachusetts B) New York City, New York C) Atlanta, Georgia D) Milan, Ohio
A) Microwave oven B) Telephone C) Light bulb D) Airplane
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) Nikola Tesla C) Henry Ford D) The Wright Brothers
A) January 1, 1900 B) August 8, 1854 C) December 31, 1879 D) November 11, 1922
A) IBM B) Tesla Motors C) General Electric D) Ford Motor Company
A) Red B) Green C) Yellow D) Blue
A) The Wizard of Menlo Park B) The Electric Genius C) The Master Inventor D) The Light Bulb King
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt B) Grover Cleveland C) George Washington D) Abraham Lincoln
A) Mina Miller B) Sarah Adams C) Emily Wilson D) Mary Johnson
A) 6 B) 4 C) 2 D) 8
A) Grand Trunk Herald B) Port Huron News C) Edison Daily D) Menlo Park Gazette
A) 13 B) 12 C) 15 D) 18
A) Port Huron, Michigan B) Stratford Junction, Ontario C) Milan, Ohio D) Menlo Park, New Jersey
A) Patents B) Electrical equipment C) Newspapers, candy, and vegetables D) Phonographs
A) A mentor B) His father C) A school teacher D) His mother
A) Financial news B) Local news C) National news D) International news
A) Five hundred B) One hundred C) Fifty D) Twenty-four
A) One thousand B) One hundred C) Twenty-four D) Five hundred
A) Traveling the world B) Retiring early C) Furthering his passion for invention D) Investing in stocks
A) 500 B) 2,000 C) 1,093 D) 1,500
A) John Edeson B) Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. C) Samuel Edison Sr. D) Thomas Edison Jr.
A) New Jersey B) Ohio C) Nova Scotia D) Michigan
A) Grand Trunk Railway B) 1st Middlesex Militia C) Canadian Army D) Ohio Militia
A) Works by Nikola Tesla B) Works by Thomas Paine C) Works by Benjamin Franklin D) Works by Alexander Graham Bell
A) Worked as a news butcher B) Became a school teacher C) Conducted chemical experiments D) Started a business in Vienna
A) American Telegraph Company B) Cable & Wireless C) Western Union D) Bell Telephone Company
A) Boston B) Cincinnati C) Detroit D) New York City
A) Charles Batchelor B) Franklin Leonard Pope C) Samuel Laws D) Ezra Gilliland
A) A telegraph school B) A stock brokerage firm C) Their own electrical engineering company D) A chemistry research lab
A) Samuel Laws B) Franklin Leonard Pope C) Charles Batchelor D) Ezra Gilliland
A) $30,000 B) $100,000 C) $50,000 D) $10,000
A) A telegraph company in New York B) A printing press company C) A battery manufacturing business D) The Port Huron street railway
A) 1877 B) 1876 C) 1887 D) 1880
A) New Jersey B) California C) New York D) Massachusetts
A) Phonograph B) Quadruplex telegraph C) Carbon microphone D) Light bulb
A) Emile Berliner B) Alexander Graham Bell C) David Edward Hughes D) Thomas Edison
A) The receiver B) The wiring C) The microphone D) The transmitter
A) Popular Science B) Scientific American C) Nature D) Science
A) Thomas Edison B) Emile Berliner C) David Edward Hughes D) Alexander Graham Bell
A) Francis Robbins Upton B) John Ott C) Jesse Lippincott D) Fred Ott
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) Joseph Henry C) J. P. Morgan D) Hermann von Helmholtz
A) 120 volts B) 110 volts C) 93 kW D) 600 kW
A) Solar-powered machinery B) Manual labor force C) Steam-powered conveyor belts D) Electrically powered seventy ton rollers
A) Lead acid batteries B) Nickel-iron electrodes C) Lye electrolyte D) Calcium tungstate screens
A) Five city blocks B) Two city blocks C) One city block D) Half a city block
A) 120 volts AC B) 110 volts direct current (DC) C) 220 volts DC D) 220 volts AC
A) Calcium tungstate battery B) Nickel-cadmium battery C) Alkaline battery D) Lead acid battery
A) 1895 B) 1905 C) 1901 D) 1910
A) 1000 customers B) 600 customers C) 1200 customers D) 508 customers
A) 1892 B) 1895 C) 1889 D) 1890
A) January 15, 1895 B) 1903 C) May 20, 1891 D) April 1896
A) It was too brittle B) It was too expensive C) It ruined the Bessemer process D) It was too heavy
A) Henry Ford B) Clarence Dally C) Lord Kelvin D) Wilhelm Röntgen
A) Pearl Street B) 65th Avenue C) Lynn, Massachusetts D) Holborn Viaduct
A) 1904 B) 1908 C) 1910 D) 1912
A) Street lighting B) Portable lighting C) Deploy in a large-scale commercial utility D) Personal home lighting
A) Early 1880s B) Late 1870s C) Early 1900s D) Early 1890s
A) Lord Kelvin B) Clarence Dally C) Charles Dally D) Waldemar Jungner
A) Nickel-iron combination B) Lead-acid combination C) Calcium tungstate combination D) Lye-nickel combination
A) Belgian fairs B) Coney Island C) Penny arcades D) Edison's film studio
A) 1896 B) 1901 C) 1908 D) 1910
A) Sued Waldemar Jungner B) Petitioned President Theodore Roosevelt C) Sought funding from Henry Ford D) Stopped working on the battery
A) 1879 B) 1877 C) 1878 D) 1880
A) November 4, 1879 B) January 27, 1880 C) September 4, 1882 D) May 1880
A) Kinetophonograph B) Kinetograph C) Kinetoscope D) Vitascope
A) Creating new naval uniforms B) Designing new naval ships C) Improving submarine detection D) Developing new aircraft
A) Tasimeter B) Electric light C) Phonograph D) Voltaic pile
A) Copper B) Glass C) Wood D) Specially coated rubber
A) Tuberculosis B) Diabetes C) Arthritis D) Heart disease
A) Tasimeter B) Electric train C) Electric light bulb D) Phonograph
A) Henry Villard B) J. P. Morgan C) Edison General Electric board D) Thomson-Houston board
A) General Electric B) National Electric Lamp Association C) Westinghouse D) Ediswan
A) Half B) One-quarter C) Three-quarters D) One-third
A) Iron ore refining project B) Gas lighting project C) AC power transmission project D) Telegraph project
A) Tinfoil B) Paper C) Wax D) Cotton
A) 1899 B) 1915 C) 1887 D) 1900
A) 220V B) 240V C) 110V D) 50V
A) Edison fully understood AC and its benefits. B) Edison could not grasp the more abstract theories behind AC. C) Edison thought AC was safer than DC. D) Edison believed AC was more efficient.
A) 1915 B) 1916 C) 1914 D) 1917
A) Leon Gaumont B) Thomas Armat C) Ladislas-Victor Lewitzki D) Edwin S. Porter
A) Edison Electric Light Company B) Columbia train C) London streetlights D) Manhattan streetlights
A) Political restrictions B) Environmental regulations C) High costs due to shipping from the Midwest D) Lack of mining technology
A) Sudbury, Ontario B) Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania C) Cleveland, Ohio D) Ogdensburg, New Jersey
A) 450 B) 300 C) 600 D) 1000
A) $20 B) $15 C) $5 D) $10
A) Lye B) Water C) Lead oxide D) Sulfuric acid
A) Westinghouse B) National Electric Lamp Association C) Ediswan D) General Electric
A) 121 DC-based stations B) 100 AC-based power stations C) 68 AC-based power stations D) 50 AC-based power stations
A) Two-prong wire system B) Single-prong wire system C) Three-prong wire system D) Four-prong wire system
A) 50 materials B) 200 materials C) 150 materials D) 100 materials
A) George Westinghouse B) J. P. Morgan C) Spencer Trask D) Henry Villard
A) Public address systems B) Home entertainment systems C) Talking dolls D) Portable radios
A) Electrical burns B) Lead poisoning C) Mediastinal cancer D) Battery-related injuries
A) Bamboo B) Hemp C) Cardboard D) Cotton
A) Leon Gaumont B) William Kennedy Laurie Dickson C) Thomas Armat D) Edwin S. Porter
A) Vitascope B) Kinetoscope C) Kinetophonograph D) Kinetograph
A) Voltage-regulating B) Phonograph C) Electric light D) Tasimeter
A) The Great Train Robbery B) Electrocuting an Elephant C) The Kiss D) Fred Ott's Sneeze
A) Edwin S. Porter B) Leon Gaumont C) Ladislas-Victor Lewitzki D) William Kennedy Laurie Dickson |