A) 1901 B) 1879 C) 1847 D) 1856
A) Boston, Massachusetts B) Atlanta, Georgia C) New York City, New York D) Milan, Ohio
A) Airplane B) Telephone C) Light bulb D) Microwave oven
A) The Wright Brothers B) Nikola Tesla C) Henry Ford D) Alexander Graham Bell
A) August 8, 1854 B) January 1, 1900 C) December 31, 1879 D) November 11, 1922
A) Tesla Motors B) IBM C) General Electric D) Ford Motor Company
A) Red B) Blue C) Yellow D) Green
A) The Light Bulb King B) The Wizard of Menlo Park C) The Electric Genius D) The Master Inventor
A) Abraham Lincoln B) George Washington C) Franklin D. Roosevelt D) Grover Cleveland
A) Emily Wilson B) Mary Johnson C) Sarah Adams D) Mina Miller
A) 2 B) 6 C) 8 D) 4
A) Edison Daily B) Menlo Park Gazette C) Port Huron News D) Grand Trunk Herald
A) 13 B) 18 C) 15 D) 12
A) Port Huron, Michigan B) Milan, Ohio C) Menlo Park, New Jersey D) Stratford Junction, Ontario
A) Newspapers, candy, and vegetables B) Electrical equipment C) Phonographs D) Patents
A) A school teacher B) His father C) A mentor D) His mother
A) National news B) Local news C) Financial news D) International news
A) Twenty-four B) Fifty C) One hundred D) Five hundred
A) One hundred B) Five hundred C) One thousand D) Twenty-four
A) Retiring early B) Traveling the world C) Investing in stocks D) Furthering his passion for invention
A) 1,500 B) 500 C) 1,093 D) 2,000
A) Samuel Edison Sr. B) Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. C) Thomas Edison Jr. D) John Edeson
A) Michigan B) Nova Scotia C) New Jersey D) Ohio
A) Ohio Militia B) 1st Middlesex Militia C) Canadian Army D) Grand Trunk Railway
A) Works by Benjamin Franklin B) Works by Nikola Tesla C) Works by Thomas Paine D) Works by Alexander Graham Bell
A) Started a business in Vienna B) Became a school teacher C) Worked as a news butcher D) Conducted chemical experiments
A) Cable & Wireless B) American Telegraph Company C) Bell Telephone Company D) Western Union
A) Cincinnati B) Boston C) Detroit D) New York City
A) Ezra Gilliland B) Samuel Laws C) Franklin Leonard Pope D) Charles Batchelor
A) A chemistry research lab B) A telegraph school C) A stock brokerage firm D) Their own electrical engineering company
A) Ezra Gilliland B) Franklin Leonard Pope C) Charles Batchelor D) Samuel Laws
A) $30,000 B) $10,000 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) 1876 B) 1887 C) 1880 D) 1877
A) New Jersey B) Massachusetts C) New York D) California
A) Phonograph B) Light bulb C) Carbon microphone D) Quadruplex telegraph
A) Thomas Edison B) David Edward Hughes C) Emile Berliner D) Alexander Graham Bell
A) The wiring B) The receiver C) The microphone D) The transmitter
A) Scientific American B) Nature C) Science D) Popular Science
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) David Edward Hughes C) Thomas Edison D) Emile Berliner
A) Francis Robbins Upton B) John Ott C) Jesse Lippincott D) Fred Ott
A) Joseph Henry B) Hermann von Helmholtz C) J. P. Morgan D) Alexander Graham Bell
A) 110 volts B) 120 volts C) 600 kW D) 93 kW
A) Manual labor force B) Steam-powered conveyor belts C) Electrically powered seventy ton rollers D) Solar-powered machinery
A) Calcium tungstate screens B) Nickel-iron electrodes C) Lye electrolyte D) Lead acid batteries
A) One city block B) Five city blocks C) Half a city block D) Two city blocks
A) 110 volts direct current (DC) B) 120 volts AC C) 220 volts DC D) 220 volts AC
A) Calcium tungstate battery B) Lead acid battery C) Nickel-cadmium battery D) Alkaline battery
A) 1901 B) 1895 C) 1910 D) 1905
A) 600 customers B) 508 customers C) 1200 customers D) 1000 customers
A) 1895 B) 1889 C) 1892 D) 1890
A) January 15, 1895 B) May 20, 1891 C) 1903 D) April 1896
A) It was too heavy B) It was too expensive C) It was too brittle D) It ruined the Bessemer process
A) Clarence Dally B) Lord Kelvin C) Wilhelm Röntgen D) Henry Ford
A) Holborn Viaduct B) 65th Avenue C) Lynn, Massachusetts D) Pearl Street
A) 1904 B) 1912 C) 1908 D) 1910
A) Portable lighting B) Deploy in a large-scale commercial utility C) Street lighting D) Personal home lighting
A) Late 1870s B) Early 1900s C) Early 1890s D) Early 1880s
A) Charles Dally B) Clarence Dally C) Waldemar Jungner D) Lord Kelvin
A) Lye-nickel combination B) Nickel-iron combination C) Calcium tungstate combination D) Lead-acid combination
A) Coney Island B) Edison's film studio C) Belgian fairs D) Penny arcades
A) 1901 B) 1896 C) 1910 D) 1908
A) Sued Waldemar Jungner B) Stopped working on the battery C) Petitioned President Theodore Roosevelt D) Sought funding from Henry Ford
A) 1880 B) 1878 C) 1877 D) 1879
A) November 4, 1879 B) September 4, 1882 C) May 1880 D) January 27, 1880
A) Vitascope B) Kinetoscope C) Kinetograph D) Kinetophonograph
A) Designing new naval ships B) Developing new aircraft C) Improving submarine detection D) Creating new naval uniforms
A) Phonograph B) Electric light C) Voltaic pile D) Tasimeter
A) Specially coated rubber B) Glass C) Copper D) Wood
A) Tuberculosis B) Arthritis C) Heart disease D) Diabetes
A) Phonograph B) Electric light bulb C) Electric train D) Tasimeter
A) J. P. Morgan B) Thomson-Houston board C) Edison General Electric board D) Henry Villard
A) National Electric Lamp Association B) Westinghouse C) General Electric D) Ediswan
A) One-third B) One-quarter C) Half D) Three-quarters
A) Telegraph project B) Iron ore refining project C) AC power transmission project D) Gas lighting project
A) Cotton B) Paper C) Wax D) Tinfoil
A) 1887 B) 1900 C) 1899 D) 1915
A) 240V B) 110V C) 220V D) 50V
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) 1914 B) 1915 C) 1916 D) 1917
A) Edwin S. Porter B) Thomas Armat C) Ladislas-Victor Lewitzki D) Leon Gaumont
A) Columbia train B) London streetlights C) Manhattan streetlights D) Edison Electric Light Company
A) High costs due to shipping from the Midwest B) Lack of mining technology C) Political restrictions D) Environmental regulations
A) Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania B) Cleveland, Ohio C) Sudbury, Ontario D) Ogdensburg, New Jersey
A) 600 B) 300 C) 1000 D) 450
A) $20 B) $15 C) $5 D) $10
A) Lye B) Lead oxide C) Sulfuric acid D) Water
A) National Electric Lamp Association B) Ediswan C) General Electric D) Westinghouse
A) 68 AC-based power stations B) 50 AC-based power stations C) 121 DC-based stations D) 100 AC-based power stations
A) Three-prong wire system B) Single-prong wire system C) Four-prong wire system D) Two-prong wire system
A) 100 materials B) 200 materials C) 50 materials D) 150 materials
A) Henry Villard B) George Westinghouse C) J. P. Morgan D) Spencer Trask
A) Portable radios B) Talking dolls C) Public address systems D) Home entertainment systems
A) Lead poisoning B) Electrical burns C) Mediastinal cancer D) Battery-related injuries
A) Cardboard B) Bamboo C) Hemp D) Cotton
A) Thomas Armat B) Leon Gaumont C) William Kennedy Laurie Dickson D) Edwin S. Porter
A) Vitascope B) Kinetoscope C) Kinetophonograph D) Kinetograph
A) Tasimeter B) Voltage-regulating C) Phonograph D) Electric light
A) Fred Ott's Sneeze B) Electrocuting an Elephant C) The Kiss D) The Great Train Robbery
A) Leon Gaumont B) Edwin S. Porter C) Ladislas-Victor Lewitzki D) William Kennedy Laurie Dickson |