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