Chapter 2 - Getting There Faster

Question 1

What is mobility?

Answer 1

the ability to get from place to place

Question 2

What did Henry blame for his mother’s death?

Answer 2

the hard work of the farm

Question 3

Who became the man who revolutionized modern transportation?

Answer 3

Henry Ford

Question 4

When was the Red Flag Act passed?

Answer 4

1865

Question 5

What was the Red Flag Act?

Answer 5

Steam carriages could only go two miles an hour in town and four miles an hour on the open road.

Question 6

Who improved the gasoline engine, which provided the basis for most car engines that are used today.

Answer 6

Gottlieb Daimler

Question 7

In what year did Henry Ford build his first car?

Answer 7

1896

Question 8

What was Henry Ford’s first car called?

Answer 8

Quadricycle.

Question 9

In what year did he introduce the Model T?

Answer 9

1908

Question 10

What became one of the most famous cars in history?

Answer 10

Model T

Question 11

Who opened the Buick company?

Answer 11

David Dunbar Buick

Question 12

What was the name of the Buick worker that became president of the Buick company?

Answer 12

Walter Percy Chrysler

Question 13

What company did Walter Percy Chrysler found?

Answer 13

Chrysler Corporation

Question 14

What did Louis Chevrolet do when he first came to America from Switzerland?

Answer 14

car racing

Question 15

In what year did Louis Chevrolet start the Chevrolet Motor Company?

Answer 15

1911

Question 16

What company did Chevrolet Motor Company later become part of?

Answer 16

General Motors Corporation

Question 17

In what year did John and Horace Dodge start their own line of cars?

Answer 17

1914

Question 18

How many horse-power did Dodge’s cars have?

Answer 18

24

Question 19

What vehicle from the 20s did many people think was the finest car of its time

Answer 19

Duesenberg

Question 20

What is an assembly line?

Answer 20

each worker does one part of a total job instead of doing the total job alone.

Question 21

Who was the first carmaker to use an assembly line?

Answer 21

Henry Ford

Question 22

Who was the German man to first make gliders?

Answer 22

Otto Lilienthal

Question 23

What are gliders?

Answer 23

machines that fly without engine power

Question 24

What American went to see Lilienthal and his gliders?

Answer 24

Octave Chanute

Question 25

Who was the head of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC and built an aerodrome

Answer 25

Samuel Langley

Question 26

What happened to Langley’s Great Aerodrome?

Answer 26

it lurched and slid into the water

Question 27

Where did the Wright Brothers go to test their flying machines?

Answer 27

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Question 28

What important invention did the Wright Brother’s add to their plane?

Answer 28

propeller

Question 29

What was the name of the new flying machine Orville flew for the first time?

Answer 29

Flyer

Question 30

What date did the “Flyer” take flight for the first time?

Answer 30

December 17, 1903

Question 31

When did the army buy the first military plane?

Answer 31

1909