| Question |
Answer |
| Invented telegraph |
Samuel Morse |
| layed a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean |
Cyrus Field |
| invented the telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
| What did telegrams offer? |
almost instant communication |
| invented typewriter |
Christopher Sholes |
| invented the adding machine |
William Burrough |
| invented the small box camera |
George Eastman |
| invented the vacuum cleaner |
John Thurman |
| invented the electric lightbulb |
Thomas Edison |
| invented transformers |
George Westinghouse |
| invented filament for lightbulb |
Lewis Howard Latimer |
| invented electric incubator, electric brake and automatic circuit breaker |
Granville Woods |
| invented mechanism for oiling machines |
Elijah McCoy |
| invented shoe-making machine |
Jan E. Matzelinger |
| invented automobile, Model T and the assembly line |
Henry Ford |
| each worker performed an assigned task again and again at a certain stage in production |
assembly line |
| produced large quantities of goods |
mass production |
| decreased manufacturing costs so products could be sold cheaper |
mass production |