Engineering Inventions

Question 1

Industrial Revolution brought?

Answer 1

increase in population and urbanization, emerging middle class

Question 2

Middle class profited from?

Answer 2

industrial growth

Question 3

Factories were filled with a labor force as?

Answer 3

agricultural manual work gave way to mechanization

Question 4

Manufacturing produced?

Answer 4

cheaper goods for a mass market, encouraged by the rise in wages and standard of living

Question 5

the traditional work place and home were being?

Answer 5

rapidly transformed

Question 6

Few men had a greater impact on life in the 19th century than?

Answer 6

Michael Faraday

Question 7

What did Faraday discover?

Answer 7

an electric current was produced in a coil of wire when a magnet was moved through the wire, leading to developments in communications

Question 8

William Cook and Charles Wheatstone?

Answer 8

1837, patented electric telegraph

Question 9

What was the electric telegraph?

Answer 9

method of sending messages through wires to a remote receiver

Question 10

Telegraphy expanded across?

Answer 10

the world

Question 11

1876?

Answer 11

Alexander Graham Bell developed the telephone, eclipsing the telegraph

Question 12

1887?

Answer 12

Hertz proved the existence of radio waves

Question 13

Marconi?

Answer 13

italian entrepreneur, worked with wireless signals

Question 14

1906?

Answer 14

marconi achieved his final goal, transmitting speech through radio transmissions over the airwaves

Question 15

Turn of 20th century?

Answer 15

advanced weapons, new tin cans for food preservation, , evolving of domestic refrigeration, cars emerged on roads, large shipbuilding, railroads across continents, first plane about to take off

Question 16

Wright?

Answer 16

progressed from gliders to fabric covered wooden biplane

Question 17

Made flight in the worlds first powered plane

Answer 17

December 17, 1903

Question 18

Early 1930s

Answer 18

modern airplane was beginning to take shape

Question 19

What transformed domestic life?

Answer 19

sewing machines, washing machines, different appliances that made life easier

Question 20

Families had clearly defined?

Answer 20

leisure time

Question 21

people listened to?

Answer 21

gramophones, which played flat discs

Question 22

March 1895?

Answer 22

cinema was born

Question 23

Wrights?

Answer 23

progressed from gliders to a fabric- covered wooden biplane

Question 24

Early 1930s?

Answer 24

modern airplane was beginning to take shape

Question 25

Domestic life was being transformed by?

Answer 25

machines of all sorts

Question 26

Families had clearly defined?

Answer 26

leisure time

Question 27

What did families listen to?

Answer 27

gramophones, which played flat discs

Question 28

March 1895?

Answer 28

cinema

Question 29

December 17, 1903?

Answer 29

Wright Flyer took off near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Question 30

Who flew the wright brothers’ plane?

Answer 30

Orville

Question 31

How high did it rise?

Answer 31

10 ft, landed after 12 seconds

Question 32

From an early age, Leonardo was obsessed with?

Answer 32

Flight

Question 33

Were leonardo’s flying machines ever practical?

Answer 33

no, they were flights of imagination

Question 34

At the start of the 20th century, humanity is about to see one of the most important technological advancements in transportation

Answer 34

Moments- Wright Flyer

Question 35

Manganese Dioxide, Zinc, and Ammonium Chloride are used together in the Leclanche Cell (an early battery)

Answer 35

Bell Box Telephone- Materials

Question 36

During what is known as the second industrial revolution both new and old technologies were adopted on the large scale.

Answer 36

Bell Box Telephone- Moment

Question 37

Advanced materials, such as
aluminum and steel, are not only
strength but relatively lightweight.

Answer 37

Wright Flyer- Materials

Question 38

Sound vibrations are transmitted through a membrane

to a needle which produces an electric signal.

Answer 38

Bell Box Telephone- Methods

Question 39

Electricity is used for
the purpose of
communication.

Answer 39

Bell Box Telephone- Ideas

Question 40

Fuel and air are compressed inside of a chamber and

ignited using an induction coil in order to drive a piston

Answer 40

internal Combustion engine- methods

Question 41

During the 1860s, the
United States was
engaged in Civil War, but
technology continued to
advance in European
countries.

Answer 41

Internal Combustion engine- moments

Question 42

Brass is superior to iron for use in machines, but requires a great deal of machinist skill to work with.

Answer 42

Materials- Difference engine

Question 43

Hydrocarbons are
burned in order to do
mechanical work.

Answer 43

Internal Combustion engine- Ideas

Question 44

A powered
aircraft achieves
sustained flight
utilizing the
force of lift on
the wings.

Answer 44

Ideas- Wright Flyer

Question 45

The 1840s was an era first of recession followed by the California
gold rush. Government interest in expensive scientific ventures
was lower than it had been in previous during.

Answer 45

Difference Engine- Moments

Question 46

A lightweight motor is
used for power, and
cables are attached to
wings to control roll,
pitch, and yaw

Answer 46

Methods- Wright Flyer

Question 47

Coal gas is a bi-product of the
“coking” process, and was
used as fuel for gas engines
during the 19th century.

Answer 47

Internal Combustion Engine- Materials

Question 48

A mechanical device can solve mathematical equations with perfect precision.

Answer 48

Difference engine- Ideas

Question 49

The finite difference is a process of addition and subtraction, which can be performed by a series of numbered gears in order to solve polynomial equations

Answer 49

Difference engine- Methods