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Who invented the radio, held 111 patents, and briefly worked with Thomas Edison

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Nikola Tesla

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Who was the first author to submit a manuscript written on the newly invented typewriter

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Mark Twain

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Who also was credited with work on the first radio process

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Guglielmo Marconi

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How much did the first electric iron weigh?

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15lbs

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What does the word “telephone” mean? When was it invented?

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“Far sound”;1876

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What were Levi Strauss’s pants originally called?

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Waist overalls

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What two people simultaneously invented the electric lightbulb?

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Joseph Wilson Swan & Thomas Alva Edison

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Who invented the elevator brake?

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Elisha Otic

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What set of brothers successfully marketed toilet paper?

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Thomas, Edward, and Clarence Scott

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Who invented the heating process to get rid of germs in foo and drink?

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Louis Pasteur

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What did George Eastman invent in 1882 that eliminated the need for glass plates in photography?

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Flexible roll film

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Who invented the zipper?

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Whitcomb L Judson

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Who gave the zipper it’s name?

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B.F. Goodrich

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What was the original name for the vacuum cleaner?

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Pneumatic carpet renovator

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What did Linus Yale invent?

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Pin-tumbler lock

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What did Wilhelm Von Roentgen invent?

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X-rays

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Alexander Graham Bell’s metal detector device was used to try to find an assassin bullet in which President?

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James A. Garfield

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Alexander Graham Bell tried to improve the breeding of what animal?

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Sheep

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Who is Bells partner in perfecting a harmonic telegraph device?

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Thomas A. Watson

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What was the first words ever heard through the harmonic telegraph?

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“Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!”

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What was Thomas Edison called by his friends?

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Al

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How much schooling did Edison have in his life?

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3 months of grammar school in Port Ituron, Michigan

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How did Edison define genius?

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

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What physical disability did Edison suffer from?

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Deafness

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What was the only invention that was entirely Edison’s own?

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Phonograph

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How many patents did Edison get?

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1093

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Who was the first automaker to use the assembly line and standard parts?

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Random E. Olds

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What was Henry Ford’s nickname?

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Devine Tinkerer

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What was the only color Fords model T car came in?

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Black

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Which American built the first aero plane?

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Samuel P. Langley

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Where and when did the Wright brothers take flight?

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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; 1903

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How long after the Wright brothers flight did American astronauts walk on the moon?

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66 years

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What did Cyrus McCormick invent?

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The reaper

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What was McCormicks company called?

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International Harvester

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Where did most immigrants end up staying once in America?

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Overcrowded and dirty cities and tenement housing

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Who photographed the horrendous conditions of sweat shops?

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Lewis Hine

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The Statue of Liberty is a gift from what?

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France

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Who wrote the poem engraved in the Statue of Liberty?

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Emma Lazarus

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What was the main reason of German and Irish immigration?

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Potato Famine

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What year did Ellis island immigration center open?

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1892 (two years after wounded knee)

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What year was the fire that destroyed the original building and records of Ellis Island?

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1897

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What year did the main building and health inspections begin?

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1900

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By when was anyone with epileptic, tubercular, or “feeble-minded” rejected?

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1907

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What day did a record number of immigrants pass through Ellis Island? How many?

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April 17, 1907; 11,747

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What year were all immigrants tested for literacy?

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1917

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By what year did immigration numbers begin to trail off?

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1924

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What year was Ellis Island “closed for good”

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1954

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Who was known as “new immigrants”?

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Immigrants from eastern and Southern Europe

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Where were immigrant processed at?

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Ellis Island

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Asian immigrants were processed at______?

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Angel Island

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What year was the Chinese Exclusion Act put into effect?

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1882

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What is the process by which people from other cultures adapt to American ways?

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Assimilation

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The Chinese Exclusion Act was in place until ______?

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1952

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What year was the literacy act passed?

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1917

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What year were immigration quotas put into place?

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1920’s

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In what year did immigration drop due to worldwide depression?

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1930’s

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What year was the Displaced Persons Act put into place?

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1940’s

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What did the immigration act of 1965 state?

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It set limits of 120,000 from the Western Hemisphere and 170,000 from everywhere else

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What year was border patrol doubled and social programs such as food stamps cut?

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1996

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