Inventors and Inventions
Communication and efficiency
planes, trains, & automobiles
Which came first?
cause and effect
100

This man invented the cotton gin

Who is Eli Whitney?

100
Samuel Morse invented a code and this machine that allowed messages and news to travel across the country almost immediately.

What is the telegraph?

100

These men invented the airplane.

Who are the Wright brothers?

100

Erie Canal or Cumberland Road

What is Cumberland Road (1811)
100

Because America had so much land and grew so many crops many American inventions were related to agriculture such as these three things.

What is the steel plow, grain elevator and mechanical reaper?

200

This man invented vulcanized rubber, which was a better alternative to natural rubber because it lasted longer in changing weather.

Who is Charles Goodyear?

200

Patented by Guglielmo Marconi, this allowed for instant communication like the telephone and telegraph and would soon be used for entertainment.

What is the radio?

200

This 363 mile long man made river was paid for by New York to connect the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and resulted in New York growing in size and becoming richer.

What is the Erie Canal?

200

Erie canal or the Transcontinental railroad was finished

Erie canal (1824)

200

Because Americans were working and living in cities and space was limited-

Buildings got taller

300

Thomas Edison invented this that reduced the amount of house fires as well as allowing people to see better in their homes.

What is the incandescent lightbulb?

300

This man invented the telephone.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

300

Because the transcontinental railroad was built, more people were able to travel-

What is from the East coast to the West coast without switching forms of transportation?
300

The transcontinental railroad was finished or the first entertainment was broadcast over the radio

The Transcontinental Railroad was finished (1869)

300

The invention of the light bulb prevented this.

What is house fires?

400

Invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, it was used to pump water out of mines.

What is the steam engine?

400

The two reasons there were so many new inventions during the Industrial Revolution.

What is to make work easier and to make more money?

400

The invention of the internal combustion engine, vulcanized rubber and the steam engine were necessary for the invention of this.

What is the modern automobile?

400

World War I or Entertainment broadcast over the radio?

Entertainment Broadcast over the radio (1906)

400

This invention caused the closing off of the frontier.

What is barbed wire?

500

Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz were two German men who inspired/invented this?

What is the modern automobile?

500

The government has recognized your right to a new idea because you made a request and met the requirements.

What is you receive a patent?

500

This man invented the assembly line to help produce his Model T.

Who is Henry Ford?

500

The Cumberland Road or World War I

Cumberland Road (1811) WWI (1914)

500

Because farms needs fewer workers, people moved to...

What are the cities?