Industrial Revolution-Inventors & Inventions pgs. 388-395

Why did people read at night by the light of a fire, a candle, or a gas or oil lamp in the late 1800s,according to page 388?

• They did this before the electric light was invented.

• They did this to save money to buy another type of light.

• They did this so they would not have to depend on an electric light.

• They did this to prevent the house from burning down.

Why were consumers ready to buy goods and services,according to page 388?

• Inventors and scientist were creating things that no one could use, but they bought them anyway.

• Inventors and scientist were creating things that people were ready to buy and would have a huge impact on the country.

• Scientists had to depend on an electric light, and they sold them to consumers.

• Inventors need to make more money to make more goods and the consumers were asking for more inventions.

Based on the information from page 388, which inventor is matched with the correct invention?

• Alexander Graham Bell- telegraph

• Samuel B. Morse- Bessemer Process

• Andrew Carnegie- telephone

• Christopher Sholes- typewriter

Dr. George Washington Carver was an African American scientist that helped the growing population by developing many uses for

• they way farmers picked up their crops and sold them to the consumers and Southern planters.

• the livestock and chickens that farmers kept on their farms.

• crops that Southerners grew such as peanuts and sweet potatoes and other crops.

• crops that the farmers from other countries could not grow here in America.

Communication by using Morse code was used on the ____, as stated in the first paragraph on page 389.

• keyboard

• typewriter

• telegraph

• electricity

Short bursts of dots and longer bursts called dashes were used to send Morse code messages ____, as stated on page 389.

• telegraph

• typewriter

• quickly

• electricity

As stated on page 389, why were investors needed by inventors?

• Investors wanted the opportunity to take the goods in the stores for themselves.

• Investors wanted the opportunity to be the first to use the new invention when it became popular.

• Investors wanted an opportunity to make a profit from the business they invested in.

• Investors wanted an opportunity to make electricity.

Read the information on page 389 to find why investor Cyrus Field started a company.

• His company made factories safe for workers, by installing fire escapes, and air conditioners in each building.

• His company made advancements is photography and lighting.

• His company laid telegraph cables across the Atlantic and made it possible for telegraph messages to be sent to Europe.

• His company laid telegraph cables across the Atlantic for divers to make phone calls from underwater.

Read the information on page 389 which inventor is matched correctly with the invention?

• George Washington- telegraph

• James Braden- photography

• Alexander Graham Bell- airplane

• Alexander Graham Bell- telephone

Which inventor worked with a team of young scientists to solve problems, based on the information from page 390?

• Thomas Alva Edison

• George Washington Carver

• Nicola Tesla

• Benjamin Franklin