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