Amazing Inventions

Much of the technology we use today was dreamed up by

• Thomas Edison

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

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Technology is the use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something.

• True

• False

Thomas Edison was a(n)

• doctor

• teacher

• scientist

• pilot

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Edison received more ​_____ than any other person in history.

• light

• cars

• rent

• patents

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What is a patent?

• a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.

• An official recognition that an idea is new.

• a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.

• separated by an interval or space greater than usual.

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How old was Edison when he started thinking of new ideas

• 22

• 11

• 13

• 21

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What did Edison set up on the train?

• Lab

• Grocery Store

• ring shop

• Books

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What was Edison's first patent?

• Highlighters

• An electric vote recorder

• A laptop

• A science book

Before Edison came up with his light bulb, two other scientists had created an

• electric lamp

• remote control

• paper machine

• electric car

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Edison tried _______ kinds of wire, or filament.

• 25

• 300

• 60,987

• 6,000

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