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