Inventions

What is an inventor?

• a person who is the first to think of something

• a thing that is created

• to make or create something new

• a group of builders

What is an invention?

• something that is created for the first time

• a person who creates something new

• to make or create something

• a improve something or make it better

What does innovation mean?

• a person who creates something new

• a group of inventors

• something that is created for the first time

• to improve something or make it better

Which word means all the businesses that make one product or service?

• agriculture

• communication

• industry

• transportation

Who invented the telephone?

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Washington Carver

• Henry Ford

Who invented the phonograph and light bulb?

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Washington Carver

• Henry Ford

Which invention, improved by Edison, most changed the way factories operated in the late 19th century?

• The refrigerator

• The lightbulb

• Ford Motor Vehicles

• John Deere farm equipment

How did Orville and Wilbur Wright contribute to the rise of the United States as a world power?

• They started the aircraft industry with their experiments in manned flight.

• They allowed women to do work usually done by men.

• They explored new lands acquired by the US.

• They improved the new Model-T vehicle.

What impact did availability of electricity have upon the homes in the late 1800s?

• It led to the invention of such things as washing machines and vacuum cleaners.

• The telegraph became an even more popular device used in more homes.

• Fewer homes needed electricity

• None of the above

Who made the Bessemer process, which converted iron into steel, popular in the United States?

• Lewis Latimer

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller