Quiz on Industrial Revolution Inventors

#1 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

1883

Alfred Nobel's dynamite (1867) First skyscraper (10 stories tall) (in Chicago) Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769) Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)

#2 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

cars go vroom

Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph and Morse Code (1837) First transatlantic cable completed Cathode rays discovered Karl Benz's internal-combustion automobile engine (1885)

#3 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Robert Trevithick (1801)'s steam locomotive demonstration Gugliemo Marconi (1901) transatlantic radio message First steam-powered mill (1779) Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent

#4 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."

Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877) Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883) Eli Whitney (1793)'s cotton gin Singer's first practical sewing machine (1851)

#5 Which of the following definitions matches the term?

Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent

Crompton's "mule" + Spinning jenny and water frame fully automated weaving process. Yeah. Useful for, like, ship distress calls. Say, for example, the one the Titanic sent out. Under the Thames Made communicating across long distances much easier, but such conversations still had to be done in public, etc.,

#6 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill

Helped plant crops

True

False

#7 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

John Kay (1733)'s flying shuttle

Early form of photography

True

False

#8 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

James Hargreaves (1765)'s spinning jenny

First commercially successful (though kind of clumsy) steam engine, used to pump water out of coal mines. Big deal, since we've just unlocked a new power source.

True

False

#9 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

Thomas Newcomen (1712)'s steam engine

First commercially successful (though kind of clumsy) steam engine, used to pump water out of coal mines. Big deal, since we've just unlocked a new power source.

True

False

#10 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

James Brindley (1761)'s Bridgewater Canal

Allowed for barges to carry coal from Worsely to Manchester

True

False

Section 1: Multiple Choice questions

1883

cars go vroom

From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."

Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent

Section 2: True/false questions

Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill

Helped plant crops

John Kay (1733)'s flying shuttle

Early form of photography

James Hargreaves (1765)'s spinning jenny

First commercially successful (though kind of clumsy) steam engine, used to pump water out of coal mines. Big deal, since we've just unlocked a new power source.

Thomas Newcomen (1712)'s steam engine

First commercially successful (though kind of clumsy) steam engine, used to pump water out of coal mines. Big deal, since we've just unlocked a new power source.

James Brindley (1761)'s Bridgewater Canal

Allowed for barges to carry coal from Worsely to Manchester

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