Who invented the first motor? (Alessandro Volta, Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday, or William GIlbert?)
Michael Faraday
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What were scientists able to do with Volta's electric battery? (Make entire cities run on electric power, Produce steady flows of electric current for the first time, make clones of animals, make devices run on electricity)?
Scientists were able to produce steady flows of electric current for the first time.
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Who invented a coil that was mainly used in radios, television sets and other electronic equipment?
Nikola Tesla (Tesla coil)
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Fill in the blanks: William Gilbert's experiments showed a clear difference between _________ and _________
Electricity and Magnetism.
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What was Alessandro Volta's family concerned about when Volta was little?
He showed no signs of talking until the age of 4 and his family was afraid that he was not intelligent.
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What invention was Alessandro Volta known for? (Electric car, light bulb, electric battery, or electric shock?)
Electric battery
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What did Thomas Edison invent? (The wheel, the light bulb and the phonograph, the simple machine, or electric current?)
Edison invented the light bulb and the phonograph.
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What did William Gilbert invent and which word did he come up with?
He invented the electroscope to detect electric charge and coined the word electricitas, which became known as electricity.
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True or False - Thomas Edison invented the vegetable cutter, the pencil sharpener and the computer.
False, Edison invented the light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture.
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True or False: Nikola Tesla was from America and built the first DC motor.
False. Tesla was from Croatia and he built the first AC motor.
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Who showed that electricity can be sent without wires? (Faraday, Tesla, Edison or Gilbert?)
Nikola Tesla
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Michael Faraday discovered that electricity can act as a _(light, magnet, conductor, force)______
magnet
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True or False: William Gilbert showed that static electricity can pick up heavy objects, but magnets cannot.
False. Magnets can pick up heavy objects and static electricity cannot.
