Inventions, People, and Events of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

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Across
  1. 2. a vehicle powered by gasoline that would replace horse drawn carriages
  2. 4. they developed and conducted test flights of the first airplanes
  3. 6. he created a steamboat empire and later profited from buying railroads
  4. 8. a more affordable automobile as a result of Henry Ford’s assemble line
  5. 9. a production method invented by Henry Ford where workers were assigned one task to perform over and over
  6. 10. event where thousands lost their jobs, banks collapsed, and railroad construction stopped upon Jay Cooke’s declaration of bankruptcy
Down
  1. 1. used Morse code to relay messages across thousands of miles of telegraph wires
  2. 3. vibrating reeds created a fluctuating current that could be turned back into the same sound at the other end of an electronic wire through vibrating reeds
  3. 5. Age, name given by Mark Twain to the outsized wealth of the time period, often lavishly spent
  4. 7. he was the inventor of the electric light bulb, diplex, and quadraplex