Important dates
Inventors
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Old Problems, Modern Solutions
100
In this year, Orville and Wilbur Wright helped people conquer the skies with this invention.
What is the airplane in 1903?
100
This was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879.
What is the lightbulb?
100
A new machine
What is an invention?
100
Henry Ford helped improve the process of making a car to be only this long with his assembly line idea.
What is 2 hours?
200
In this year, Thomas Edison said shined brigthly with his invention.
What is the light bulb in 1879?
200
This was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
What is the telephone?
200
Used to make cars in less than 2 hours.
What is the assembly line?
200
Thomas Edison wanted to help society with this, so he thougth of a new invention.
What is streets/homes being dark with no lights?
or
What is a longer burning light bulb?
300
It wasn't the iPhone, but Alexander Graham Bell did start a long distance trend in this year with this invention.
What is the telephone in 1876?
300
This invention worked for only 1 minute in 1903.
What is the airplane?
300
These people were used to direct traffic before the traffic light was invented.
What are police officers?
300
The first of these, invented by Elisha Graves Otis, moved people quickly up a building.
What is an elevator?
400
In this year, Jan Matzeliger made it easier for everyone to have comfortable feet with this invention.
What is shoe making machine in 1882?
400
This machine, invented in the 1850s, helped people go up to the top of skyscrapers.
What is the elevator?
400
A very tall building
What is a skyscraper?
400
Garret Morgan helped fix this problem with his invention in 1923.
What is traffic?
500
Henry Ford started making cars in 1896, but in this year he made things even faster than a car with this invention.
What is the assembly line in 1913?
500
This was invented by Jan Metzilinger in 1882.
What is a shoe making machine?
500
A machine that carries parts past a worker.
What is a conveyor belt?
500
Alexander Graham Bell wanted to help people do to this with his invention.
What is talking to people far away/far apart?