1.2 Inventions and Innovations: An Evolutionary Process

The rate of technological development is ______.

• Rapidly increasing

• Rapidly decreasing

• Slowly increasing

• Slowly decreasing

A new and useful tool or process is called an _____?

• Invention

• Innovation

• Cultural Shift

• Technology Transfer

Who is credited with the invention of the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Elisha Gray

• Henry Ford

• Karl Benz

Who filed and received a patent for the harmonic telegraph

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Elisha Gray

• Henry Ford

• Karl Benz

Who innovated mass-production techniques that became standard for automobile production?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Elisha Gray

• Henry Ford

• Karl Benz

Who is widely credited with inventing the first modern automobile?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Elisha Gray

• Henry Ford

• Karl Benz

_________ is a series of refinements to an original idea or product.

• Innovation

• Invention

• Tweak

• Cultural Shift

The change from the quill pen to the ball-point pen is referred to as:

• innovation

• patent

• discovery

• brainstorming

An example of a product of technological evolution is:

• mechanical pencil

• wooden pencil

• cave paintings

• ink and quill

Which of the following items represents the original invention that computers are based upon?

• calculators

• abacus

• vacuum tubes

• drive train