Unit 6 - Industrial Revolution (people)

Question 1

James Watt

Answer 1

Scottish inventor whose steam engine contributed to the Industrial Revolution

Question 2

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 2

American inventor who invented the telephone and refined the phonograph.

Question 3

Eli Whitney

Answer 3

American inventor who created the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

Question 4

John Kay

Answer 4

English machinist/engineer, inventor of the flying shuttle, which was an important step towards automatic weaving.

Question 5

Gottlieb Daimler

Answer 5

German engineer, built the first Mercedes car

Question 6

Karl Marx

Answer 6

German political theorist who believed in socialism.

Question 7

Charles Townshend

Answer 7

British chancellor whose taxation policies for the American colonies led to the American Revolution

Question 8

Wright brothers

Answer 8

American inventors who built the first airplane

Question 9

Cecil Rhodes

Answer 9

Built an empire in British South Africa, organizer of diamond mining company De Beers, established Rhodes Scholarship

Question 10

Thomas Edison

Answer 10

American inventor, developed many devices such as a long-lasting light bulb, phonograph, and the first motion-picture camera

Question 11

Jethro Tull

Answer 11

Agriculturist, perfected horse-drawn seed drill

Question 12

Adam Smith

Answer 12

Scottish political philosopher

Question 13

Robert Fulton

Answer 13

American inventor who made steamboats a commercial success

Question 14

Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 14

Italian physicist and inventor known for his work on long-distance radio transmission

Question 15

George Stephenson

Answer 15

English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive

Question 16

Queen Victoria

Answer 16

Queen of England in the 19th Century, ruled during the height of the British Empire

Question 17

Charles Dickens

Answer 17

English novelist and social reformer

Question 18

Charles Darwin

Answer 18

British naturalist who gave birth to the theory of evolution by natural selection

Question 19

James Hargreaves

Answer 19

English inventor of the spinning jenny, a machine that could spin multiple threads at once

Question 20

Henry Bessemer

Answer 20

English inventor who developed the first process of manufacturing steel inexpensively

Question 21

Samuel Morse

Answer 21

American inventor who developed the Morse Code

Question 22

Louis Daguerre

Answer 22

French physicist who invented the first practical process of photography