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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. Thomas Edison invented the _____________________________.
2. Alexander Graham Bell invented motion pictures.  True or False
3. Thomas Edison is the most famous American inventor.  True or False
4. How many new devices did Edison come up with?
5. Who invented the first radio?
6. What year was the radio invented?
7. Who found a way to make radio signals stronger?
8. What year were radio signals made stronger?
9. Who invented the first T.V.  camera?
10. What year was the first T.V. camera invented?
11. What year was the T.V. picture tube invented?
12. What were the 1800s called?
13. Why were the 1800s called “The Age of Invention”?
14. What four major inventions were created during this time period that changed our lives?

Chapter 1:
15. What was Thomas’ complete name?
16. Where was he born?
17. What year was he born?
18. What did his friends call him?
19. What city did his family move to when he was seven?
20. Why did Thomas only last 3 months at school?
21. What was Thomas’ mother’s education?
22. What did Thomas build in his bedroom?
23. What caused his mother to move the laboratory to the basement?
24. Look at the timeline to answer these questions:
a. What year was the bicycle invented?
b. What year was Lincoln assassinated?
c. What invention was created during the American Civil War?
d. What invention came two years after the California Gold Rush?
25. Where did Edison work when he was 12 years old?
26. What items did Edison sell when he was 12 years old?
27. How old was Edison when he learned to use the telegraph machine?
28. Edison invented how to send _______________________________________ automatically.
29. In what year did Edison move to Boston?
30. For whom did Edison work for, when he moved to Boston?
31. Edison invented a part to fix broken Western Union machines.  How much did Western Union pay Edison for his invention?
32. In what year did Edison invent a machine to display stock prices?
33. Look at the timeline to answer these questions:
a. What world event took place during the same time the typewriter was invented?
b. What year did this invention/event take place?
c. What year were traffic lights invented?
d. What opened for the first time in the U.S. in 1874?
e. What two items were invented in 1876?

Chapter 2: A Bright Idea
34. What did Edison do with the money Western Union paid him?
35. Where did Edison set-up his lab?
36. A few years after setting up his first lab, he moved it to _______________________, New Jersey.
37. Use the timeline to answer these questions:
a. What year was Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” published?
b. What year was toilet paper invented?
c. The automobile was invented in ____________________.
d. The Statue of Liberty was open in the year ________________.
38. How did Edison fix the light bulb problem?
39. Who solved Edison’s second light bulb problem?
40. How did Latimer solve Edison’s problem?
41. How long did Edison’s light bulb burn?
42. In what year did Edison test his light bulb on his lab and home?
43. What was Edison’s solution to bringing in electric power to ordinary people?
44. Where did he build his electric power station?
45. What was the name of his company?
46. When the company pulled the switch for the first time on September 4, 1882, how many people had electric power in their homes?
47. Use the timeline to answer these questions:
a. What world event happened between 1898-1899?
b. What was invented in 1901?
c. What was invented in 1902?
d. What two items were invented in 1903?
e. What world event took place in 1903?

Chapter 3: Let There Be Music!
48. Who did Edison invent the talking doll for?
49. In what year did he invent the talking doll?
50. What was the name of the machine that Edison invent to record people’s voices?
a. What year did he event this?
51. Was the phonograph successful?  Yes or No
52. How much did people pay to hear the phonograph in 1877?
53. How much did people pay to buy a phonograph?
54. Who invented the gramophone?
55. In the U.S. gramophones were called ___________________________________.
56. What did gramophones play?

Chapter 4: Motion Pictures
57. After Edison invented the phonograph, what name did people give him?
58. Use the timeline to answer these questions:
a. What was invented in 1913?
b. What event happened in 1917?
c. What event happened between 1914-1918?
d. What event happened in 1929?
e. What event happened in 1927?
f. What was invented in 1928?
59. What was the name of the motion picture player Edison invented?
60. The kinetoscope and the kinetograph led to the invention of the _______________________________ and ______________________________________.
61. What did Edison call his camera that recorded action on film?
62. Inventions are protected by ______________________.
63. What is a patent?
64. What was the name of one of the first movies made?
65. Where did Edison build his movie studio?
66. What was the name of the first movie that told a story?
67. About how many movies did Edison make?
68. Did Edison make color movies?
69. How did Edison make color movies?

Conclusion
70. When did Edison die?

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