people

Question 1

The inventor of cotton gin

Answer 1

Eli Whitney

Question 2

Name the Englishmen who perfected the steam engine.

Answer 2

James Watt

Question 3

Name the man given credit for the first successful steamboat.

Answer 3

Robert Fulton

Question 4

Name the immigrant who brought the secret of England’s textile machines to the United States

Answer 4

Samuel Slator

Question 5

Name the man who demonstrated the possibility of using interchangeable parts by assembling guns from a pile of parts.

Answer 5

Eli Whitney

Question 6

Name the maker of a six-shooter with a bullet chamber that spun into line with a fixed barrel.

Answer 6

Samuel Colt

Question 7

Name the inventor of a horse-drawn reaper that cut grain faster.

Answer 7

Cyrus McCormick

Question 8

Name the designer of clipper ships.

Answer 8

Donald mc kay

Question 9

Name the governor of New York who worked to establish the Erie Canal

Answer 9

Dewitt Clinton

Question 10

Name the designer and builder of the first practical steam locomotive.

Answer 10

Peter Cooper

Question 11

Name the man who thought of dots and dashes to convey messages across telegraph wires.

Answer 11

Samuel B. Morse

Question 12

Name the frontiersmen who cut the Wilderness Road into Kentucky.

Answer 12

Daniel Boone