10.6 Inventions/Inventors

What device did Alexander Graham Bell create that changed communications forever?

• telephone
• telegraph
• Internet
• electrical services

The airplane was invented by:

• The Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Mercedes Benz

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Who invented the first automobile, assembly line?

• Cyrus McCormick
• Henry Ford
• Samuel Morse
• Alexander Graham Bell

Invented electric lightbulb

• Coach Webb
• Thomas Edison
• Coach Drummond
• Ben Franklin

Built a lightweight airplane that used a small,gas powered engine

• Thomas Edison
• Graham Bell
• Wilbur and Orville Wrong
• Wilbur and Orville Wright

Explain the impact electricity had on factories.

• Factories had to close down early.
• Factories could remain open 24 hours a day.
• People began moving back to the countryside.
• People could only go to the factories in the morning.

The assembly line allowed a much more efficient  ______________ of goods.

• mass transportation
• mass production

A ______________ gives an inventor exclusive rights (control) of his/her invention.

• Monopoly
• Trust
• Patent
• Dividend

In 1886, He placed an underwater telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean.  Now a message did not have to e carried by ship taking weeks to deliver.

• Cyrus W. Field
• Thomas Alva Edison
• Philo T. Farnsworth
• Granville T. Woods

During the late 1800s . . . the United States was called "The Land of ___________ ."

• Industry
• Exodusters
• Invention
• Automobiles