Henry Ford
Wright Brothers
Fill in the Blanks
True or False
Transportation
100
In what year did Henry Ford create the Model T?
1908
100
In what state did the Wright brothers live?
Ohio
100
Otto Lilienthal made gliders that looked like _________.
Birds' wings and tails
100
The Red Flag Act of 1865 increased the speed of steam cars in England.
False
100
What was the most popular mode of transportation in the 1880s and 1890s?
The bicycle
200
What did Henry Ford improve that changed the way goods were manufactured?
The assembly line
200
The Wright brothers had a _______________ to fund their experiments.
A bicycle shop
200
Men wanting to fly first tried to imitate ____________.
Birds
200
An antique is something that was made long ago.
True
200
What two men helped develop the gasoline engine?
Gottlieb Daimler & Jean Joseph Lenoir
300
What important event happened in Henry's childhood that made him want to find a better mode of transportation than the horse?
His mother died
300
The Wright brothers went to __________________, North Carolina to test their flying machines.
Kitty Hawk
300
The story about Icarus, who flew using wings made of wax and feathers, is a _____________ myth.
Greek
300
Goods moving to the workers instead of the workers moving to the goods is know as mobility.
False
300
The power of a car's engine is known as its ____________.
Horsepower
400
In addition to revolutionizing modern transportation, Henry Ford also created the ____________ for working in the fields
tractor
400
The Wright brothers wrote to the ____________ Institution to get information about flying
Smithsonian
400
The first affordable and reliable car was the __________.
Model T
400
The ability to move from place to place is called mobility.
True
400
Samuel Langley built a flying machine with ____________.
A gasoline engine
500
Where is the Henry Ford museum?
Dearborn, Michigan
500
The Wright brothers tested their flying machine in a ______________________, which is a box designed to test wind speed.
wind tunnel
500
Automobiles allowed people to work in other cities, take trips on their own schedules, and gave people the ______________ to do as they pleased.
Freedom
500
The assembly line increased the cost of products.
False
500
Octave Chanute made a glider with ____________.
Rubber joints
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