Thomas Alva Edison by Laurie Rozakis

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Book: Thomas Alva Edison
Author: Laurie Rozakis
ISBN: 978-0-02-203075-1

Introduction
1. Phonograph
2. false
3. true
4. more than 1,000
5. Guglielmo Marconi
6. 1895
7. Guglielmo Marconi
8. 1901
9. Vladimir Zworykin
10. 1923
11. 1929
12. The Age of Invention
13. Answers will vary
14. Steamboat, steam-engine train, airplane, and telephone

Chapter 1: An Inventor from the Start
15. Thomas Alva Edison
16. Milan, Ohio
17. 1847
18. “Al”
19. Port Huron, Michigan
20. Answers will vary
21. school teacher
22. a laboratory
23. the chemical smells made her dizzy
24.
a) 1839
b) 1865
c) the elevator
d) the sewing machine
25. on the railroad
26. newspapers
27. 16 yrs old
28. telegraph signals
29. 1868
30. Western Union Telegraph Company
31. $40,000
32. 1869
33.
a) The United States buys Alaska from Russia
b) 1867
c) 1868
d) the zoo
e) The telephone and automobile engine

Chapter 2: A Bright Idea
34. started his laboratory
35. Newark, New Jersey
36. Menlo Park
37.
a) 1876
b) 1880
c) 1885
d) 1886
38. he used a parallel circuit
39. Lewis Latimer
40. He used carbon instead of metal, wood, or cotton
41. About 13 hours
42. 1878
43. he built a big electric generator
44. New York City
45. Edison Electric Illuminating Company
46. 85 people
47.
a) The Spanish-American War
b) The vacuum cleaner
c) The air conditioner
d) The airplane and the crayons
e) The completion of the Panama Canal

Chapter 3: Let There Be Music!
48.  his daughter
49. 1877
50. phonograph
a) 1877
51. yes
52. 25 cents
53. $30
54. Leon Berliner
55. record players
56. vinyl discs

Chapter 4: Motion Pictures
57. The Wizard of Menlo Park
58.
a) the zipper
b) The Russian Revolution
c) World War 1
d) The Great Depression
e) Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic
f) bubble gum

Conclusion
59.  kinetoscope
60. movie camera, movie projector
61. kinetograph