Engineering Intro

Ferdinand de Lesseps is best known for the development of which massive engineering project, completed in 1869?

• Panama Canal

• Suez Canal

• Grand Canyon

• Great Wall of China

What common term is used for a system of pulleys and a rope threaded between them, used to pull or lift heavy loads?

• Crane

• Pulley

• Rope

• Block & Tackle

Elisha Graves Otis was the inventor of a safety device for what?

• elevator

• car

• train

• escalator

George Stephenson's first passenger locomotive, called 'Locomotion', travelled 25 miles between Stockton and which town?

• London

• Darlington

• Newcastle

• Liverpool

Which British inventor and engineer, with both a deaf mother and wife, sought to integrate the deaf and hard of hearing with the hearing world?

• Thomas Edison

• Charles Babbage

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Who discovered that there is a direct proportionality between the voltage applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current?

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

• Georg Ohm

• James Clerk Maxwell

Built between 1931 and 1935, which Art Deco-detailed project was the most expensive engineering project in America at that time?

• Empire State Building

• Golden Gate Bridge

• George Washington Bridge

• Hoover Dam

Which Serbian born engineer made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, application and transmission of electric power and invented the first AC motor?

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Westinghouse

There are two plaques outside the Midland Hotel, Manchester, bearing the date Wednesday 4 May 1904, commemorating the first ever meeting between which two gentlemen?

• Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison

• Thomas Watson and Alexander Graham Bell

• Alexander Graham Bell and Guglielmo Marconi

• Rolls and Royce

Which American magazine sometimes known as PM, is a magazine of science, engineering and technology, founded in 1902 by Henry Haven Windsor?

• Popular Science

• National Geographic

• Popular Mechanics

• Scientific American