Famous Inventions
Terms and Names
Famous Inventors
100

What invention is used to communicate over short or long distances?

What is the telephone?

100

A government document allowing inventors to sell their inventions for a certain amount of years.

What is a Patent?

100

He invented the telephone.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

200

What is used to light up what is dark?

What is a lightbulb?
200

The pattern of good and bad times.

What is the Business Cycle?

200

Who invented the light bulb?

Who is Thomas A. Edison?

300

This machine is used to create energy.

What is a generator?

300
An exhibition held in Philadelphia in celebrating America's 100th birthday.

What is the Centennial Exhibition?

300

Who invented the photograph?

Who is Thomas A. Edison?

400

A new manufacturing technique used in the 1850s. 

What is the Bessemer Steel Process?

400

Who invented a leather to the sole machine?

Who is Jan Matzeliger?

500

A cheap oily liquid.

What is petroleum? 

500

Who invented the moving picture viewer?

Who is Tomas A. Edison?

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