Industrial Revolution Quiz

Question 1

Charles Townshend

Answer 1

urged the growing of turnips to enrich exhausted soil

Question 2

Robert Bakewell

Answer 2

bred stronger horses for farm work and fatter sheep and cattle for meat

Question 3

Jethro Tull

Answer 3

developed a seed drill that enabled farmers to plant seeds in orderly rows

Question 4

John Kay

Answer 4

improved the loom with his “ flying shuttle”

Question 5

James Hargreaves

Answer 5

invented the “spinning Jenny” that could make up to 80 threads at one time

Question 6

Richard Arkwright

Answer 6

Invented the “water frame” which was a huge spinning machine that ran on water power

Question 7

Samuel Crompton

Answer 7

combined the best features of the spinning jenny and the water frame to create the “spinning mule”

Question 8

Edmund Cartwright

Answer 8

Invented a loom called the “power loom” that ran on horse, water, or steam power

Question 9

Eli Whitney

Answer 9

1) invented a machine called the cotton gin that could clean cotton 50 times faster than a person could
2) created the concept of interchangeable parts so that broken factory made parts could be replaced with a new factory made part

Question 10

James Watt

Answer 10

Designed an efficient steam engine used in factories

Question 11

Henry Bessemer

Answer 11

Developed methods in inexpensively produced steel from iron called the Bessemer process

Question 12

John McAdam

Answer 12

Advanced road system with better drainage with the use of layers of crushed rock

Question 13

Richard Trevithick

Answer 13

Devised a steam-powered carriage and a steam-powered locomotive called “The Rocket”

Question 14

Robert Fulton

Answer 14

An American inventor who designed the first practical steamboat

Question 15

Samuel Slater “the traitor”

Answer 15

Sold knowledge of technology from England and introduced it in the United States

Question 16

Frederick Taylor

Answer 16

Encouraged manufacturers to divide tasks into a detailed step-by-step procedure known as a division of labor

Question 17

Henry Ford

Answer 17

Used the assembly line method to mass produce his automobiles

Question 18

Samuel Morse

Answer 18

Assembled a working model of the telegraph along with the language of the machine called “Morse code”

Question 19

Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 19

Devised the wireless telegraph that later was developed into the radio

Question 20

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 20

Discovered that tiny electric wires could carry sound over long distances which resulted in the invention of the telephone

Question 21

Michael Faraday

Answer 21

Discovered that a magnet moving through a coil of copper wiring could produce an electric current which led to the electric generator

Question 22

Thomas Edison

Answer 22

Invented the phonograph and the incandescent lightbulb

Question 23

Gottlieb Daimler

Answer 23

Redesigned the internal combustion engine to run on gasoline

Question 24

Rudolf Diesel

Answer 24

Developed an oil-burning internal combustion engine

Question 25

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Answer 25

Created the rigid dirigible or a blimp with a metal framed balloon

Question 26

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Answer 26

Carried out the first successful flight of a motorized airplane

Question 27

Joseph Breck

Answer 27

Tried to invent a cure for premature baldness which led to a full line of hair care formulas