History 19.1 quiz

Who invented the telephone?

• George Westinghouse
• Thomas Edison
• Cyrus Field
• Alexander Graham Bell

Who improved Edison's work by developing transformers?

• Granville Woods
• Elijah McCoy
• George Westinghouse
• Lewis Howard Latimer

Who pioneered the moving assembly line

• Henry Ford
• Jan Matzeliger
• Thomas Edison
• Cyrus Field

Whose electric power plant lit up 85 buildings in New York City?

• Henry Ford
• Cyrus Field
• George Eastman
• Thomas Edison

The fast-growing national rail system encouraged the expansion of the _________.

• economy
• electorate
• patent system
• Oregon Trail

__________ protected the creations of inventors.

• Moving Assembly Lines
• The Bessemer Process 
• Patents
• Monopolies 

Who invented the first practical motorcar?

• Wilbur and Orville Wright
• Edwin L.Drake
• Charles and J. Frank Duryea
• George Eastman

What led to the creation of a multi-million dollar oil industry?

• electricity
• air travel
• railroads
• Edwin L.Drake's well

_____________ was a quick and easy way to make steel, which contributed to the growth of the railroad industry.

• The Bessemer Process
• The moving assembly line
• Kerosene
• Cast-iron

Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first ____________.

• Electric power system
• Gas-powered Airplane
• gasoline engine
• Telephone