Thomas Alva Edison: Famous Inventors

1. True or False: Inventors can be also scientists. (p.14)

• True
• False

2. Which sentence does NOT describe an inventor? (p.14)

• Someone who creates something new.
• Someone who finds new ways to do things.
• Someone who sells products.
• Someone who works to solve problems.

3. What did Thomas Edison invent on August 12, 1877? (p.15)

• telephone
• movie camera
• phonograph
• microwave

4. What did Thomas Edison like to do when he was a child?

• to play outside
• to read books
• to paint

5. What does "improvement" mean?

• To make things worse
• To make things new
• To make things better

6. How many inventions did Edison and his workers come up with? (p.16)

• 100
• 1,000
• 10,000

7. Which invention is Thomas Edison best known for?

• telephone
• phonograph
• computer
• light bulb

8. What was on the first phonograph that Edison invented? (p. 16)

• a movie of a boy and a puppy

• people singing
• children playing outside