Ch. 11 Les. 1 Progress Check

consumer someone who buys or uses goods and services telegraph a device that sent little bursts of electricity along wires for communication investor someone who puts money into a business to make a profit profit the money an investor earns when the business does well Which invention was the FIRST one Thomas Edison created in 1877? phonograph telegraph light bulb movie camera How many inventions did Edison end up creating? 2,000 158 1,093 nobody knows for sure How did the invention of electricity affect technology that came after it? it did not affect it it made the technology more expensive many inventions used electricity as a source of power Why did the Wright brothers experiment with kites? to study how wings worked they were cheap to purchase it's the only thing they had laying around Talking 1877: the Bell Telephone Company was formed Jan. 1878: the first telephone exchange opened in New Haven, CT Driving 1908: more than 200 companies manufactured cars in the United States 1925: a new word was coined: motel. It was a "motor hotel," or hotel for people on driving vacations Flying 1927: American pilot Charles Lindbergh flew alone across the Atlantic.