part 9

Question 1

Used steam engine to drill for oil

Answer 1

Edwin Drake

Question 2

Invented the light bulb and patented more than 1000 inventions.

Answer 2

Thomas Edison

Question 3

Developed technology to send electricity over long distances and air brakes for trains

Answer 3

George Westinghouse

Question 4

Invented and patented the telephone

Answer 4

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 5

Invents wireless telegraph system which eventually evolves into the raio

Answer 5

Guglielmo Marconi

Question 6

Invented refrigerated train cars

Answer 6

Gustavus Swift

Question 7

Invented telegraph system for trains

Answer 7

Granville woods

Question 8

Invented windshield wipers

Answer 8

Mary Anderson

Question 9

Invented planes

Answer 9

The wright brothers

Question 10

Used inventions to make business more efficient

Answer 10

J.P. Morgan

Question 11

Led the knights of labor

Answer 11

Terrance Powderly

Question 12

Opened the first apartment store

Answer 12

Rowland H Macy

Question 13

Liked to stir up controversy with the newspaper

Answer 13

Joseph Pulitzer

Question 14

Opened the first ever roller coaster

Answer 14

Lamarcus Thompson

Question 15

Invented basketball

Answer 15

James Naismith