American Industry and Innovation
- Question: What was the first passenger rail line in the United States?
- Answer: The Baltimore & Ohio, or B&O, railroad was the first passenger rail line in the United States. It was opened in 1830.
- Question: In which state did the eastward and westward branches of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States meet?
- Answer: On May 10, 1869, the eastward and westward branches of the inaugural transcontinental railroad met at Promontory, Utah.
- Question: Which modern company resulted from an 1892 merger with Thomas Alva Edison’s company Edison Electric?
- Answer: General Electric was formed from the merger of companies that included Thomas Edison’s flagship Edison Electric.
- Question: In what year was transatlantic phone service initiated between New York and London?
- Answer: A transatlantic cable laid in 1927 allowed commercial telephone service to be established between London and New York.
- Question: Which of these American industrialists introduced the assembly line to automobile manufacturing?
- Answer: Henry Ford introduced assembly-line manufacture to the automobile business in the first years of the 20th century.
- Question: In what American state was telephone service first established between two cities?
- Answer: In 1877 telephone service was established between Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts. Telephone lines quickly spread to other states.
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