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