Industrial Age - opener 4/19

Who was one of the first railroad barons? Empire stretched from New York to Great Lakes

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• James J. Hill

• Leland Stanford

• George Westinghouse

Which is the term for combining separate companies?

• inflation

• consolidation

• standard gauge

• pools

Which term means a discount or return of part of a payment?

• recession

• monopoly

• rebate

• trust

Responsible for developing refrigerated railroad cars

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Eli Janney

• George Pullman

• Gustavus Swift

How did railroads help the economy grow?

• helped to bring raw materials to factories

• developed the standard pool

• brought manufactured goods to markets

• expanded areas where people could live and work

Who invented the telegraph in 1840?

• James Hargreaves
• John Deer
• Samuel Morse
• John Montressor

Who was responsible for inventing the light bulb?

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Jan Matzeliger

• Cyrus Field

Who was responsible for inventing the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• George Eastman

• Samuel Morse

Who was responsible for laying a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866?

• Cyrus Field

• George Pullman

• George Westinghouse

• John Thurman

Who invented the phonograph?

• George Eastman
• Henry Ford
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison