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What did Josephine Cochran invent?

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The dishwasher

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Where was Josephine Cochran born?

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Ashtabula County, Ohio

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Why did Josephine Cochran invent the dishwasher?

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Some of her dishes got chipped and she wanted to find a safer way to wash them and make housewives’ lives easier

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How did Josephine Cochran pay for her invention?

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Her husband died and left her with money

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Where did Josephine Cochran design her first model of the dishwasher?

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In the shed behind her house

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What is Charles Brush invent?

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The arc lamp, used for street lights

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Where is Charles Brush from?

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Euclid, Ohio = 10 minutes from downtown Cleveland

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What is an arc lamp?

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lamp that burns as brightly as four thousand candles

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What did Charles Brush decide to do with his arc lamp?

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Market his invention to cities to light the streets at night because it was too bright to be inside homes

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What was the first city to have electric street lighting?

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Cleveland

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How did Charles Brush’s invention help?

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provided safety and helped with travel

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James Ritty was a businessman from…

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Dayton, Ohio

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James Ritty was suspicious of his workers when….

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his sales didn’t match his money for his business. He thought they were stealing it

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What did James Ritty invent?

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Cash register

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Did James Ritty keep his cash register business?

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No, it was too hard to run more than one business so he sold his idea to someone else

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How many tries did it take James Ritty to invent the cash register?

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Three tries

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Was James Ritty’s cash register about safety, business, travel or entertainment?

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Business

18
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Granville Woods was born in either ….

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Australia or Columbus, Ohio

19
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Granville Woods started working on railroads when he was what age?

A

16

20
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Granville Woods is known for inventing…

A

electrical devices for the railroads

21
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Granville Woods inventions helped make rail travel safer and ….

A

faster

22
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Granville Woods started what in Cincinnati, Ohio?

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An electric company

23
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Who created an invention that allowed people on moving trains to communicate with people on other trains or in stations?

A

Granville Woods

24
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Who designed a grooved wheel called a troller, where the term trolley car came from?

A

Granville Woods

25
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Who invented the telegraph?

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Granville Woods

26
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What did the telegraph do?

A

Let engineers and station masters speak to each other

27
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Where was Charles Kettering born

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Loudonville, Ohio

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Where was Charles Kettering’s first job and what did he do?

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At the National Cash Register Company where he helped perfect the first working cash register

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What did Charles Kettering invent?

A

Electric ignition system for cars

30
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What did Garrett Morgan invent?

A

Traffic signal

31
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What are some other things that Garrett Morgan invented?

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Hair cream, attachment for sewing machines and cigarette filter

32
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Why is Garrett Morgan’s invention important?

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Safety

33
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Where was Thomas Edison born?

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Milan, Ohio

34
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What was Thomas Edison’s most famous invention?

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The light bulb

35
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Who is often referred to as “The Greatest Inventor”?

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Thomas Edison

36
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What’s a fun fact about Thomas Edison?

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He set a barn on fire

37
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What are the Wright Brothers names?

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Orville and Wilbur

38
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Where did the Wright Brothers grow up?

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Dayton, Ohio

39
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Why did the Wright Brothers become interested in building a controlled flying device?

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Their dad brought home a toy heliocopter

40
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What did the Wright Brothers study to help them create an aircraft?

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Birds

41
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Where did the two brothers made their first successful flight?

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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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