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