Industrial quiz 12/20/23

Who invented the telegraph?

• Elias Howe
• Eli Whitney
• Samuel Slater
• Samuel Morse

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

• America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

• America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

• It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

This invention created steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:

• the telegraph

• the Bessemer Process

• the Model T

• The light bulb

The inventor of such items like the phonograph, electric generator, & movie projector was

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Nicola Tesla
• Eli Whitney

The inventor of the telephone in 1876 was

• Thomas Edison
• Nicola Tesla
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Eli Whitney

How much of something there is, and how much is wanted is called...

• supply and demand
• Vanderbilt and Gould
• want and need
• capitalism

My product helped to build railroads, trains, sky scrapers, and stronger bridges. I am ___________________

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Andrew Carnegie
• Thomas Edison
• John D. Rockefeller

I am the founder of the Standard Oil Company. I am ___________

• John D. Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison

One of the most famous and successful railroad consolidators

• time zones
• James J. Hill
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Jay Gould

American businessman- founder of Standard Oil Company

• Samuel Gompers
• Thomas Edison
• Vanderbilt
• John D. Rockerfeller