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