Energy
This utility provides power to Charlotte and the greater portion of the Carolinas.
Who is Duke Energy?
His contributions related more to the creation of electricity, though his AC induction motor powers the EV market, including his namesake company.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
At the end of its production, the Ford Model-T accounted for half of the total number of these on the road.
What is the car?
This is the language used to control technology or create software.
What is code / computer program?
Try not to reinvent this, since humanity has been using it in various forms for millenia.
What is the wheel?
This type of electricity is able to travel very long distances and typically powers your home after a step-down transformer.
What is Alternating Current?
His assembly line introduced the conveyor system, which moved the product to the workers, versus earlier systems where the worker had to switch locations.
Who is Henry Ford?
Whether it has 4 or 6 (or sometimes 8, 10, 12) these parts of the engines move from TDC to BDC and turn the crankshaft.
What are cylinders?
He developed the three laws of motion, and owes much to an apple.
Who is Issac Newton?
If you like it hot, than this technological advancement isn't for you.
What is refrigeration?
This is the primary fuel source in America, accounting for around 40% of power generation.
What is Natural Gas?
Typically included at the end of the manufacturing process, it assures the product will meet internal and customer specifications.
What is Quality Assurance / Quality Control?
This industry has been utilizing diesel-electric hybrid engines for decades, long before a smaller version was developed for the automotive industry.
What is the railroad industry?
Bicycle repairmen from Ohio, they came to North Carolina to test the initial version of their most famous creation. It lasted 12 seconds.
Who are the Wright brothers?
Can you hear me now? Today's version is much more mobile than the original version.
What is the phone?
The largest machine ever built, it extends almost 2/3rds of the united States
What is the Eastern Electrical Grid?
The involves utilizing machinery that is permanently set up to perform a specific, high-volume, and repetitive tasks.
What is (Fixed) Automation?
Another format of the internal combustion engine, it has 3 steps in its cycle, though is still less efficient than a 4 cycle engine.
What is the Wankel rotary engine?
Post WWII, President Eisenhower championed the creation of this interconnected system to primarily allow for easy movement of military assets between cities.
What is the US Interstate Highway System?
This invention allowed the masses to obtain the written pages, but it didn't help if you couldn't read!
What is the printing press?
renewable energy accounted for 12% of the total energy mix in the United States, and this source headed that amount with half it that amount.
What is hydroelectric power?
He created the first assembly line concept for vehicles and increased his eponymous company's output from 425 cars in 1901 to 2,500 in 1902.
Who is Ransom Olds?
Not an ICE, this uses an explosive fuel and air mixture to create thrust directly, not as a method to turn shafts and axles.
What is a jet / turbine engine?
The application of scientific knowledge to develop tools, devices, and systems
What is Technology?
Sometimes if you've got an idea, you say this went off in your head, though really it should be said that it turned on instead.
What is the light bulb / artificial light?