Modern History Abeka ch 14 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What made Chicago the perfect place to try out the new types of buildings known as _____?

It was a major city and needed to be rebuilt after a fire in 1871; skyscrapers

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What was Nikola Tesla known for?

AC or Alternating Current and the Tesla coil

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Who was the architect who helped with rebuilding Chicago and what all-steel framed building was he known for designing?

Louis Sullivan; Wainwright building

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Thomas Edison believed that genius was 1% _____ and 99% _______.

inspiration, perspiration

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Name three of Thomas Edison's inventions

electric light bulb, phonograph, motion picture machine, electric generator, etc.

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Mr. & Mrs. Roebling helped, one with the design, the other with building what (name and type)?

The Brooklyn Bridge, a suspension bridge

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lifesaver

Give 20 points!

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gift

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gift

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banana

Go to last place!

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baam

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gift

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fairy

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What was needed inside of the tall buildings and who invented the safe version of these?

Elisha Otis; the safety elevator

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monster

Reset all scores!

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fairy

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rocket

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baam

Lose 25 points!

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trap

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thief

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Name one school that opened to help train medical workers in the late 1800's?

Bellevue Hospital (1st school of nursing); Johns Hopkins Medical School, and Provident Hospital

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What industry and what practice was Andrew Carnegie famous for?

Steel and philanthropy

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What did Lyman Stewart do differently than other oil entrepreneurs; where was his company?

He drilled deeper than others; he established the Union Oil Company of California

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Who studied horticulture and developed the idea of crop rotation to replenish depleted soil?

George Washington Carver

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Before George Eastman's invention, what was difficult about taking photographs?

cameras were bulky& expensive, camera person had to be under a cloth, subject had to stay still

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