Chapter 6

Question 0

Optimist

Answer 0

Someone who looks on the bright side. Example: Jan Matzeliger

Question 1

How does an inventor qualify for a patent?

Answer 1

The invention must work and be a new idea.

Question 2

Pessimist

Answer 2

Someone who sees the bad instead of the good side of things.

Example: James Watt

Question 3

Persistence

Answer 3

Not giving up

Question 4

Imagination

Answer 4

Thinking of new ways to do things

Question 5

Curiosity

Answer 5

Wanting to know more about something

Question 6

Eli Whitney

Answer 6

Invented cotton gin and invented interchangeable parts

Question 7

James Watt

Answer 7

Introduced unit of measurement called horsepower

Question 8

Samuel Applegate

Answer 8

Invented the cork alarm clock

Question 9

Lewis Waterman

Answer 9

Invented the fountain pen

Question 10

Cyrus McCormick

Answer 10

Invented the reaper; made lots of money and used it for the Lord’s work.

Question 11

George Washington Carver

Answer 11

Invented hundreds of ways to use the peanut and sweet potato

Question 12

Jan Matzeliger

Answer 12

Invented the shoe lasting machine

Question 13

Christopher Sholes

Answer 13

Built 50 typewriters before he got one to work perfectly

Question 14

Elias Howe

Answer 14

Invented the sewing machine

Question 15

Thomas Edison

Answer 15

Invented the electric light bulb and phonograph