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