Inventions of 1800s Word Scramble
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Question | Answer | Time | Inventor/Improver |
What did someone invent to help transportation of goods and other things to the farms and homes of the West? | The Erie Canal. | 1825 | Governor DeWitt Clinton |
What did his opponents call it? | "Clinton's ditch" | 1825 | Governor DeWitt Clinton |
This developed in... So ___ became a commercial center of the U.S. | Northeast needs food. Midwest needs manufactured goods. They formed a strong economical bond. ... New York | 1825 | Governor DeWitt Clinton |
The________ made travel by water by burning fuels easy. | Steamboat | 1807 | Robert Fulton |
____ ___ were the most graceful sailing crafts built. Resulted in the " golden era of ___" | Clipper Ships. Sail. | 1840s and 1850s | Donald McKay |
More efficient than water was the _____ | Steam Locomotive! | about 1833 | ???? |
A new way to plow | STEEL plow | 1830s | John Deere |
A new way to harvest | reaping machine or mechanical reaper | 1831 | Cyrus McCormick |
Rapid cotton weaving powered by water was... | Power Loom | 1800s | Francis Cabot Lowell |
What is a patent? | legal rights to an invention | ||
Two worked on something to help make clothes. What was it? | Sewing machine | 1846 and afterwards in 1854 | Elias Howe and Isaac Merrit Singer |
Safety of coal miners | miners' safety lamp | 1815 | Sir Humphry Davy |
Fast way to sent messages using electricity | telegraph | 1837 | Samuel Morse |
First message sent by the Fast way to sent messages using electricity? | What God hath Wrought! (Num. 23:23) | 1844 | Samuel Morse |
Fastest way to sent messages before the Fast way to sent messages using electricity? | Pony Express | April 1860 to October 1861 | |
"Pathfinder of the Seas" | Matthew Maury | 1850s | |
Send messages underwater. | transatlantic cable | 1858 | Cyrus Field |
Send messages underwater. first one from ____ to ____ | Newfoundland to Ireland | 1858 | Cyrus Field |
Send messages underwater. First message sent. | "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, and good-will to men | 1858 | Cyrus Field |
an entrepreneur is a what? | a person who risks personal loss to develop and market new products or ideas. | ||
First pain killer. Not credited | ether; "deep sleep" | 1842 | Crawford Long |
First pain killer. Credited. | ether | 1840s | William Morton |
ease pain of dental work word to descried absence of pain | used: nitrous oxide... no pain: anesthesia | 1844 | Horace Wells |
First Woman Physician | Elizabeth Blackwell | 1849 | |
light for streets | gas street light | 1830 | ???? |
Lamp powered by cheep oil | kerosene | 1854 | ???? |
applied science is | the practical use of scientific knowledge. | ||
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Who wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"? What was his real name? | Samuel Clemens wrote this under the name of Mark Twain. | 1835-1910 | Samuel Clemens |
The steamboat did the same thing to ___ as to New York because... | New Orleans. South sends cotton to England. England sends manufactured goods. | 1850 | Robert Fulton |
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