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