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