Edison
Edison developed a practical incandescent lighting system. This topic is part of Inventors within History. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Edison trivia questions
Thomas Edison is strongly associated with improving what household technology?
Answer: Electric light bulb
Bonus fact: Edison developed a practical incandescent lighting system.
Edison founded a famous research laboratory in which New Jersey town?
Answer: Menlo Park
Bonus fact: Menlo Park became known as an invention factory.
Which sound-recording device did Edison invent in 1877?
Answer: Phonograph
Bonus fact: The phonograph could record and reproduce sound.
What recording shape did Edison's earliest phonograph use?
Answer: Cylinder
Bonus fact: Later systems popularized flat records.
In what year did Thomas Edison invent the first device able to record and play back sound?
Answer: 1877
Bonus fact: Edison's first phonograph recorded sound as indentations on tinfoil wrapped around a rotating drum.
Who invented the phonograph in 1877?
Answer: Thomas Edison
Bonus fact: Edison's early machine recorded sound on tinfoil cylinders.