Electricty 4

Who invented the first air pollution control device, the cinder catcher, in 1913?

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Edward Murray

• A. Goss

What did A. Goss invent?

• The nuclear reactor

• The electric car

• The electric refrigerator

• The solar cell

What was the purpose of the Federal Power Commission established in 1920?

• To provide electricity to rural America

• To regulate public utilities

• For licensing hydroelectric projects

• To market federal power

Which power plant was the world's first to burn only pulverized coal in 1921?

• Shippingport reactor in Pennsylvania

• Connecticut Valley Power Exchange

• Bonneville Power project

• Lakeside Power Plant in Wisconsin

What was the Tennessee Valley Authority created for in 1933?

• To regulate nuclear reactors

• To pioneer interconnection between utilities

• To invent the solar cell

• To provide regional power

What did the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 aim to provide?

• Private ownership of nuclear reactors

• A 266-mile line from Boulder City, Nevada, to Los Angeles, California

• The first nuclear power plant

• Electricity to all American farms

Who invented the first solar cell for Bell Labs in 1954?

• Edward Murray and A. Goss

• Chaplin, Fuller, and Pearson

• The Tennessee Valley Authority

• The Federal Power Commission

What significant event in the field of nuclear power occurred in 1957?

• The Shippingport reactor generated electricity for US customers

• The Atomic Energy Act of 1954

• The creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority

• The invention of the solar cell

By what year did almost all American farms have electricity?

• 1950

• 1957

• 1942

• 1936

What was the purpose of the Public Utility Holding Company Act and Federal Power Act of 1935?

• To provide electricity to farms nationwide

• To regulate public utilities and provide electricity to rural America

• To license hydroelectric projects

• To allow private ownership of nuclear reactors