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This inventor, born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, spent his early years as a traveling salesman on the railroad, where he built a mobile laboratory.
Who is Thomas Edison?
What is Germany?
A conflict between alternating current and direct current during the 1880s.
What is the war of the currents?
This automaton was described in Edgar Allen Poe's essay "Maelzel's Chess Player.
What is the mechanical turk?
An immigrant inventor who tried to develop wireless power transmission and loved pigeons.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
The "invention factory"
What is Menlo Park?
This decade saw the discovery of DNA and the rise of genetic research.
What is the 1950s?
This building material was vastly improved by the work of Henry Bessemer.
What is steel?
This immigrant inventor (1847-1922) was inspired by his experience with deaf education to develop a new method of communication.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Edison's first commercial electrical power distribution center, located in New York's financial district.
What is the Pearl Street Station?
This message read: "What hath God wrought?"
What is the first telegraph message between DC and Baltimore?
Walter Benjamin discussed how this object disrupted the lifestyle of his bourgeois family in fin-de-siecle Berlin.
What is the telephone?
Who is Walter Gropius?
This city hosted the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
What is Chicago?
The State of New York used this form of electricity to execute William Kemmler.
What is alternating current?
Tesla proposed this device to the US military during WWII.
What is a death ray?
This Czech playwright first introduced the world to the word "robot" with his play "Rossum's Universal Robots."
Who was Karel Capek?
This city is home to the Deutsches Museum, established by Oskar von Miller.
What is Munich?
An exposition at this museum was helped popularize Bauhaus design in the United States
What is the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)?
This machine inspired the aesthetics of Italian Futurism.
What is the car/automobile?