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