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