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Skyscrapers and city planning
Electric Transit andEngineering and Urban Planning
Printing Revolution
Airplanes
Photography
100
Louis Sullivan designed the 10 story Wainwright Building in St. Louis in these years.
What is 1890-91
100
The 3 types of electric transit include...
What is streetcars, elevated trains, and subways
100
By 1890 what percentage did the literacy rate rise to in the United States
What is 90%
100
What brothers were the first to design and fly a plane
Who are the Wright brothers
100
Who developed the more convienient camera
Who is George Eastman
200
The designer of the Flatiron Building
Who is Daniel Burnham
200
What city was the first in America to electrify it's urban transit
What is Richmond, Virginia
200
What 3 reading tools were published by publishers to meet the public reading demand
What are books, magazines, and newspapers
200
What city was the first flight in
What is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
200
WHat was the alternative to carrying darkrooms around with the photographer
What is flexible film
300
The 2 factors that made it possible to create skyscapers
What is elevators and development of internal steel skeletons to bear the weight of buildings.
300
This man spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted
300
What material aided in paper being cheap at this time
What is wood pulp
300
Where were the Wright brothers from
What is Dayton, Ohio
300
In what year did Eastman come out with the Kodak camera
What is 1888
400
Daniel Burnham's motto was...
What is "make no little plans. They have no magic to stir mens blood"
400
Olmsted planned landscaping for D.C in what decade
What is the 1870's
400
What kind of press printed on both sides of the paper roll and not just on 1 side.
What is The electrically powered web-perfecting press
400
What was the first type of plane the brothers built
What is a glider
400
How much did these camera's cost
What is $25
500
Where was the first ferris wheel ever made
Where is Chicago
500
In 1857 Olmsted helped draw up a plan for "Greensward" with which English born architect
Who is Calvert Vaux
500
What made newspapers and magazines more affordable
What is faster production and lower costs.
500
What was the date of their first flight
What is December 17, 1903
500
What city was Eastman's factory located in
What is Rochester, New York