Inventions General Knowledge
Some inventions are merely improvements on a previous this.
What is idea? (or invention?)
He invented the Electric Telegraph with Albert Vail.
Who was Samuel Morse?
Alexander Graham Bell used this previous invention to develop his telephone.
What is the Telegraph?
He invented the first successful car model that actually worked.
Who was Karl Benz?
First heard in a simple rhythm Morse Code, it's now known as the international distress signal.
What is SOS?
He invented the light bulb and over 1000 other inventions.
Who was Thomas Edison?
Samuel Morse determined that this was the most frequently used letter in the alphabet.
What is the letter E?
One of Alexander Graham Bell's official jobs.
What is university professor? (Also instructor of students who were deaf)
Henry Ford invented this process to make cars more efficiently and less expensive.
What is the assembly line?
It's the very important electronic invention that paved the way for telephone, radio and television.
What is the telegraph?
It's the reason why gasoline engines are NOT going to be the permanent power source for cars.
Why is that petroleum is a non-renewable resource?
(We cannot produce more gasoline after the world's supply is gone)
Samuel Morse developed his telegraph using these sent over wires.
What are electric pulses?
It's the disability that both Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife had.
What is that they were deaf?
It's the today's name of the company Karl Benz founded shortly before he died.
What is Mercedes-Benz?
This is something inventors want, a law that protects their invention from being copied for someone else's gain.
What is a patent?
It's one of the first questions an inventor must ask themselves about the idea they have.
What is "Who will benefit from my invention?" (who will use it ... how does it work ... what is it made of ... how much will it cost?)
This theme song has the descriptive two letters in Morse Code within the song.
What is Mission Impossible?
The know first use of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the metal detector.
What was finding a bullet lodged in the President's abdomen?
This was the decade that Benz's car was first developed.
What was the 1880's?
It is the name we know Alexander Graham Bell's company today.
What is AT&T?
It's what an audiometer does.
It was the decade that Samuel Morse debuted the Electric Telegraph.
What is the 1830's?
These are first words ever uttered in a telephone call.
What was, "Mr. Watson, come quickly I want to see you!?"
The first three power sources for early cars were these three.
What are gasoline, steam and electric?
He's the inventor that was just a bit too late to invent the telephone.
Who was Elisha Gray?