Railroad
Light
Meiji Restoration
100
Why weren't people worried that the two trains might crash?
Because they were supposed to meet over a gap in the track.
100
Which year did Edison invent the light bulb?
1879
100
Who was the last shogunate of Japan?
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
200
Who helped to lay down the last rail track?
An experienced rail worker.
200
How many designs had Edison tried?
3000
200
Edo's new name was
Tokyo
300
What made people realize that they need standardized time-zones?
The railroad.
300
What is a filament?
300
Where did the Japanese daimyo send students to learn about the West？
Europe
400
How many days did it take to travel across the US on railroad？
5 days
400
What first, why were people afraid of the lightbulbs?
They thought they would go off like bombs.
400
How long did the Satsuma Revolt last?
Less than a year
500
Who came up with the idea of the Time Zone?
Canadian railroad enginner--Sir Standford Fleming
500
What were needed to run these lights?
Wires, cables, generators, light sockets.
500
The Japanese constitution was like the _____'s.
German