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100
This man invented the first incandescent light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
100
This man invented the Franklin stove.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
This man invented the reaper.
Who was Cyrus Hall McCormick?
100
The year the first American car was made.
What is 1903.
100
This word means to "send out".
What is broadcast?
200
The number of miles the Pony Express riders rode in one day.
What is 75 miles.
200
This man invented the first American car.
Who was Henry Ford?
200
These men invented the first airplane.
Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright?
200
This person figured out a way to make milk safe for people to drink.
Who was Louis Pasteur?
200
The year the first airplanes were flown.
What is 1903?
300
This man invented the lightning rod.
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
300
This person invented a vaccine for polio.
Who was Jonas Salk?
300
This man invented the first camera in a box that anyone could learn to use.
Who was George Eastman?
300
This person invented a type of picture that appeared on a piece of metal.
Who was Louis Daguerre?
300
This man invented the first telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
400
This person helped cure people of leukemia and malaria.
Who was Gertrude Elion?
400
These men invented and improved steam engines.
Who were James Watt and Richard Trevithick?
400
This man invented a special tube to build a television.
Who was A.A. Campbell Swinton?
400
This was an African-American man who worked on lamps and light bulbs with Thomas Edison. He also drew a picture of the telephone for Bell.
Who was Lewis Latimer?
400
The year the Pony Express was set up.
What is 1860.
500
This person invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
500
These men invented the first car, but were not Americans.
Who were Daimler and Benz?
500
This man was put in charge of the first postal service in 1775.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
This italian inventor found a way for voices to travel without wires (radio waves).
Who was Guglielmo Marconi?
500
The series of signals using dots and dashes.
What is Morse Code.