Abeka history 11.3

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How long did Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb burn?

40 hours!

What did Thomas Edison say into his phonograph for the first time?

Mary had a little lamb it's fleece was white as snow.

A system of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet and numbers that could be tapped visit telegraph wires

Morse Code

Who invented the Morse code?

Samuel Morris, who is also the inventor of the telegraph.

Believed that messages could be sent over long distances through a wire by electricity

Samuel Morse

Telegraph

Sends messages over long distance is through wire by electricity

Who invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

Robert Fulton's Steamboat

Inventor of the steamboat

What invention brought the east and the west together?

The telegraph

People will continue to invent new ways to improve the car and clean as well as every other important invention

This process of improvement is called progress, moving forward to improve our way of life

The greatest inventor in history who invented thousand or more inventions.

Thomas Edison

Who invented the electric light, motion pictures, the phonograph, office machinery and the electric lightbulb?

Thomas Edison

Who said, " Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration"?

Thomas Edison


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