Inventors
Inventions
Progress?
Firsts
Pot Luck
100
Among other things, he invented the phonograph.

Who was Edison?

100

The telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

100

Making things on a large scale

What is mass production?

100
Airplane

Who are the Wright brothers?

100

Invented the mechanical thresher. 

Who was Cyrus McCormick

200
Known for his green tractors and farming equipment. 

Who is John Deere

200

This machine made cotton production more profitable.

What is the cotton gin?

200

The use of machines in large factories to make goods.

What is industrialization?

200

First man on the moon

Who is Neil Armstrong

200

He made production of EVs practical. 

Who is Elon Musk?

300

Invented the electric sewing machine used in many factories. 

Who is Isaac Singer?

300

This invention used a code to communicate. 

What is the telegraph?

300

A group of workers

What is a labor union?

300

First commercially-successful steamboat

What is the Clermont?

300

You can thank him for your iPads. 

Who is Steve Jobs?

400

Developed the first Atomic bomb.

Who was Oppenheimer?

400
His moveable assembly line increased the speed of production. 

Who is Henry Ford?

400

This term is used to describe the growth of cities.

What is urbanization?

400

First American in space

Who is Alan Shepard?

400

German rocket scientist who helped NASA. 

Who was Wernher von Braun?

500

Andrew Weinreich was waaay before Mark Zuckerberg in developing this. 

What is a social network?

500

This development made mass production possible. 

What are interchangeable parts?
500

This man-made waterway connected the cities of Albany and Buffalo. 

What was the Erie Canal?

500

Martin Cooper developed the first one of these.

What is a cell phone?

500

You'll find these in computers. 

What are the microchips?

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