Inventions Quiz

What year was a telegraph cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean?

• 1858

• 1866

• 1870

• 1884

Match the invention with the inventor.

• Christopher Shole

• vacuum cleaner (1899)

• George Eastman

• typewriter (1868)

• William Burrough

• adding machine (1888)

• John Thurman

• Kodak Camera (1888)

Which of the following ideas DID NOT come out of Thomas Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey?

• Electric light bulb

• Phonograph

• Motion picture camera

• Telegraph

Model T car: It dramatically changed society in the early 1900s. Write 1 sentence about how it helped people.

Thomas Edison: An invention he created changed society in the early 1900s. Choose an invention and write 1 sentence about how it helped people.

Before Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, the fastest way to send messages was by ____________. 

• car
• airplane
• horseback
• bicycle

a machine using wires to send messages

• reaper

• telegraph

• thresh

• supply

The airplane was invented by:

• The Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Mercedes Benz

Invented electric light bulb....

• Coach Webb
• Thomas Edison
• Coach Drummond
• Ben Franklin

Match the following famous African American Inventors!

• Jan E. Matzeliger

• created a new wire for the light bulb

• Granville Woods

• improved brakes for railroads

• Elijah McCoy

• invented a shoemaking machine

• Lewis H. Latimer

• mechanism for oiling machinery