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.
Who invented the first motor? (Alessandro Volta, Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday, or William GIlbert?)
Michael Faraday
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.
Fill in the blanks: William Gilbert discovered that the Earth has two magnetic ___________.
Poles
True or false: Tesla worked at Edison's laboratory his whole life.
False, Tesla opened his own lab after two years of working with Edison.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Which inventor has a special talent for languages?
Alessandro Volta
Who showed that electricity can be sent without wires? (Faraday, Tesla, Edison or Gilbert?)
Nikola Tesla
What invention was Alessandro Volta known for? (Electric car, light bulb, electric battery, or electric shock?)
Electric battery
Who invented a coil that was mainly used in radios, television sets and other electronic equipment?
Nikola Tesla (Tesla coil)
True or False? Faraday discovered that if electricity strikes a metal object, it will only pass through the outside of the object.
True (this is the Faraday cage)
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.
Fill in the blank: Faraday showed that magnetism affects _________ ____ _______.
Rays of light
Fill in the blanks: William Gilbert's experiments showed a clear difference between _________ and _________
Electricity and Magnetism.
Michael Faraday discovered that electricity can act as a _(light, magnet, conductor, force)______
magnet
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