1. Thomas Edison was a inventor who held the rights to over 1,000 inventions.

2. Alexander Graham Bell received the for the telephone.

3. Thomas Edison himself in his work and encouraged others to work hard also.

4. Improvements Edison made to the made sending messages much faster.

5. Instead of working in , Edison worked side-by-side with his assistants.

6. Charles Batchelor was a of Edison who helped develop a filament for the electric light bulb.

7. The first railroad reached from eastern Nebraska to California.

8. Edison made to the telephone that made the speaker’s voice easier to hear.

9. The student’s approach to learning led her to take things apart to see how they work.

10. Because its supply of oil is limited, the United States must import oil.

11. Edison often to a trial-and-error approach when developing new inventions.

12. Alexander Graham Bell from Scotland to settle in the United States.

13. The special effects used in movies today were not even when Edison invented a motion picture camera.

14. The reporter writes for that news magazine.

15. When a device like the telegraph Edison, he looked for ways to improve it.