Famous Inventors
Vocabulary
100

This inventor invented electricity.

Who is Thomas Edison?

100

A government document giving an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell his or her invention for a specific amount of years. 

What is a patent?

200

A Scottish immigrant invented the telephone.

Who is Alexander Grahm Bell?

200

A machine that produces an electrical current. 

What is a generator? 

300

He came from England and invented the Bessemer Steel Process. 

Who is Henry Bessemer?

400

Invented the first practical typewriter in 1867. 

Who is Christopher Latham Sholes?
500
An immigrant from Dutch Guiana who invented to reduce the time needed to fasten shoe leather to the sole by hand. 

Who is Jan Matzeliger?