Early Inventions

American financier Cyrus Field wanted to go further. He wanted to link the United States and _____________ with cable across the Atlantic.

• China

• Japon

• Britain

• France

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After heroic efforts, a transtlantic cable was laid in 1858. However, there were problems, the cable fail within ________.

• weeks

• a week

• a month

• months

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The first telegraph line proved that the idea works.

• True

• False

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Dmitry Mendeleyev list the elements in the periodic table by the ______________.

• atomic weight

• atomic density

• atomic power

• atomic radioactivity

Dmitry created a version with gaps where there were ___________ in the pattern.

• do

• break

• make

• cut

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Chemist did not see the importance of the periodic table at least twenty years later.

• True

• False

Levi Strauss had ___________ that supplied people with everything they needed including pants.

• apps

• jeans

• business

• pants

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They made denim pants with riveted pockets, to make them strong for _____________.

• movility

• durability

• popularity

• hard work

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Jacob Denis got the second patent for jeans.

• True

• False

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Tailor is someone who makes clothes that are measured to fit exactly.

• True

• False

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