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