ABEKA 8, AMERICA: LAND I LOVE - CHAPTER 15
Wainwright Building
Name the first modern american skyscraper.
Kerosene
What type of fuel replaced whale oil and provided a cheap way to light homes and businesses?
Henry Bessemer
Who developed an inexpensive way to turn iron ore into steel?
Lyman Stewart
Who established the Union Oil Company?
John Rockefeller
Who formed Standard Oil Company?
William Booth
Who founded the Salvation Army?
George Eastman
Who invented the box camera and roll film?
Albert Alva Edison
Who invented the incandescent light bulb?
Elisha Otis
Who invented the safety elevator?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the telephone?
Mark Twain
Who nicknamed the period 1865-1900 the "Gilded Age"?
Andrew Carnegie
Who owned the largest steel manufacturing company in the world?
John Roebling
Who pioneered the design of suspension bridges?
Jane Addams
Who started the Hull House?
Thomas Watson
Who supplied the "hands" to produce the first telephone?
George Washington Carver
Who worked in the study and growing of plants?
D. L. Moody
The former shoe salesman who became a great evangelist.
Louis Sullivan
What architect pioneered the building of skyscrapers?
The first transcontinental railroad was completed
What event took place at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869?
Philanthropy
What term refers to the practice of givings away large sums of money to needy individual and charities?