Life Before Electricity
This was burned in fireplaces to heat homes before electricity.
What is firewood?
Before electricity, meals were cooked over this.
What is a fire?
This modern invention allows us to simply flip a switch to light a room.
What is the light bulb?
In the 1700s and 1800s, scientists became more interested in this natural force.
What is electricity?
We now heat and cool our homes by adjusting this.
What is the thermostat?
This type of lamp used fuel to provide light at night.
What is a kerosene lamp?
This invention allows us to bake at a steady, regulated temperature.
What is the electric oven?
He invented the first practical lightbulb in 1879.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This year Thomas Edison invented the first practical lightbulb.
What is 1879?
Electric ovens allow bakers to do this more accurately than brick ovens.
What is control the temperature?
Families used these to bake bread or pies before electric ovens.
What are brick ovens?
This kitchen appliance lets us boil water or sear food quickly today.
What is the stovetop or electric stove?
Instead of fireplaces, we now use this to adjust home temperatures.
What is a thermostat?
Inventors knew electricity could help complete these types of tasks.
What are practical/daily tasks?
Electric lights eliminated the need for these fuel-based lamps.
What are kerosene lamps?
This had to be chopped, stored dry, and fed into fireplaces to keep homes warm.
What is wood?
In the past, cooks had to pay close attention to their food because they could not do this with ovens.
What is regulate the temperature?
Before electricity, these had to be refilled and their wicks trimmed.
What are kerosene lamps?
These two centuries saw major developments in understanding electricity.
What are the 1700s and 1800s?
Electricity made these two daily tasks easier and safer.
What are cooking and heating homes?
Families needed more than one of these to light a whole room.
What are kerosene lamps/lanterns?
This is one safety advantage of electric stoves over open fires.
What is less risk of fire hazards?
This was a major safety improvement when moving from kerosene lamps to electric lighting.
What is less risk of fire?
This word describes the people who found new uses for electricity to improve life.
Who are inventors or scientists?
Life after electricity is described as both easier and this.
What is safer?