Key People – Chapter 22: Life in the Industrial Age

Who discovered electromagnetic induction and invented the dynamo (electric generator)?

• Michael Faraday

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• James Clerk Maxwell

Who invented the practical lightbulb and phonograph?

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Albert Einstein

Who introduced mass production and created the affordable Model T automobile?

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• Albert Einstein

Who flew the first powered airplane in 1903?

• Wilbur Wright

• Orville Wright

• Charles Lindbergh

• Amelia Earhart

Who invented the telegraph and Morse code?

• Samuel Morse

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

Who invented the telephone in 1876?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• Graham Bell

Who developed the first wireless telegraph (radio)?

• Guglielmo Marconi

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

Who co-developed the Bessemer process for producing steel?

Who made the Bessemer process a commercial success?

• Henry Bessemer

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

Who built the first practical gas-powered car in 1885?

• Carl Benz

• Henry Ford

• Gottlieb Daimler

• Rudolf Diesel