Quiz on Thomas Edison

What did the boy's father offer Edison after he rescued the child from the path of a moving train?

• A job as a telegraph operator

• Lessons in telegraphy

• A laboratory in Menlo Park

• A phonograph

What was the first device for recording sound invented by Edison?

• Telegraph

• Kinetoscope

• Phonograph

• Microphone

Where did Edison open his laboratory with the support of financiers?

• New York City, New York

• Menlo Park, New Jersey

• San Francisco, California

• Boston, Massachusetts

How many inventions had Edison patented in the United States by the time he died in 1931?

• 500

• 1,093

• 2,000

• 750

Which of the following inventions is NOT mentioned as one of Edison's creations?

• Kinetoscope

• Rechargeable battery

• Cement manufacturing process

• Telephone