Question

All of the following can be attributed to the work of Thomas Edison EXCEPT

A)
the phonograph, which enabled the recording and reproduction of sound and music.


B)
moving pictures, which allowed people to see events from far off places and watch entertainment on a wider scale.


C)
the light bulb, which changed the way people lived and worked by allowing them to play and work at night as well as day.


D)
the mail order catalog, which allowed people in rural areas of the country to have access to America's growing material output.

Answer 1

Answer: D) the mail order catalog, which allowed people in rural areas of the country to have access to America's growing material output.

Explanation: Edison was a man involved in thousands of things, but he generally was less-interested in mass commerce. However, the creation of the mail order catalog, which allowed people in rural areas of the country to have access to the U.S.’s growing material output, goes to Montgomery Ward.

Answer 2

The correct option is D.
Thomas Edison was an American investor and business man and he had been described as the American greatest inventor, because during his life time he accumulated 1,093 patents. He is the brain behind many devices which had radically changed the way people live their lives today. The devices invented by him include: phonograph, light bubs, moving pictures, electrographic vote recorder, the carbon telephone transmitter, etc.