Key Inventions & US Infrastructure

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

• telephone

• telegraph

• Internet

• electrical services

Technological innovation, such as the telegraph, telephone, and electric light bulb led to

• decreased connectivity and productivity for the development of industry in the US
• no impact on the development of industry in the US
• greater connectivity and productivity for the development of industry in the United States.
• increased national debt for consumers purchasing new inventions causing a massive recession

Which new technology made travel west faster, cheaper and safer?

• stagecoach
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Pony Express
• wagon trains

This person invented the telephone and revolutionized communication.

• Guglielmo Marconi
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Steve Jobs
• Thomas Edison

The invention of the ____________ made it possible to send messages to citites in minutes.  

• telegraph
• steamboat
• railroad
• business

The perfection of this device by Thomas Edison allowed factories to operate day and night shifts

• Pocket Watch

• Frozen Dinner

• Light Bulb

• Gas Lamp

This person changed American businesses and homes with the invention of the electric light bulb (allow factories to be lit and operate twenty-four hours a day, and illuminated buildings, streets, and neighborhoods):

• Richard Sears
• George Westinghouse
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison