Deck 5: History of the Heat Engine

Question 1

What is considered to be the first heat engine?

A) reciprocating steam engine
B) rocket engine
C) water turbine
D) reaction turbine

Answer 1

reaction turbine

Question 2

Who invented the aeolipile or reaction turbine?

A) Hero
B) da Vinci
C) Watt
D) Otto

Answer 2

Hero

Question 3

Any machine that converts the heat energy in a fuel to mechanical energy is known as a:

A) motor
B) turbine
C) rocket
D) heat engine

Answer 3

heat engine

Question 4

Who was responsible for building the first steam engine capable of performing any real work?

A) Thomas Savery
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Thomas Newcomen
D) Denis Papin

Question 5

What did James Watt achieve when he manufactured his 1765 steam engine?

A) the first steam engine
B) the first turbine
C) quadruple the thermal efficiency of any previous engine
D) double the cylinder operating pressure of any previous engine

Question 6

Who invented the centrifugal governor and the crank/throw principle?

A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Rudolf Diesel
C) Nikolas Otto
D) James Watt

Question 7

What thermal efficiency was James Watt's 1765 steam engine able to achieve?

A) 1%
B) 4%
C) 10%
D) 40%

Question 8

What was the world's first automobile powered by?

A) steam
B) gasoline
C) diesel
D) coal dust

Question 9

Who invented the concept of latent heat that was critical to the development of the steam engine?

A) Sadi Carnot
B) Nicolas Cugnot
C) George Stephenson
D) Joseph Black

Question 10

Who performed the key research on the engine cycle and heat, that made the work of Otto and Diesel possible?

A) Volta
B) Lenoir
C) Carnot and de Rocha
D) Volta and Trevithick

Question 11

Who entered the first diesel powered automobile in the Indy 500?

A) Ricardo
B) Ford
C) Edison
D) Cummins

Question 12

What was Henry Ford's first job?

A) company director
B) apprentice machinist
C) chief engineer
D) cooper

Question 13

Technician A says that the high pressure diesel fuel oil pump was introduced in 1927. Technician B says that Robert Bosch invented the high pressure diesel fuel oil pump. Who is right?

A) A only
B) B only
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 14

What is an ENIAC (electronic numeric integrator and calculator) better known as today?

A) an electronic fuel injection system
B) an electrical data grid
C) a pocket calculator
D) a computer

Question 15

Who drove a diesel powered truck loaded with 3 1/2 tons from coast to coast in the 1930s using $11.38 of fuel?

A) Presper
B) Cummins
C) Ford
D) Eckert

Question 16

Who invented the worldwide web (www)?

A) Robert Bosch
B) Clessie Cummins
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) Eckert and Mauchly

Question 17

Who is known as the father of the truck diesel engine?

A) Robert Bosch
B) Hans List
C) Vernon Roosa
D) Clessie Cummins

Question 18

Who invented the inlet metering, rotary distributor pump?

A) Robert Bosch
B) Vernon Roosa
C) Clessie Cummins
D) Tim Berners-Lee

Question 19

What did Blaise Pascal invent that was significant in the development of the modern computer?

A) abacus
B) slide rule
C) mechanical digital calculating machine
D) electronic computer

Question 20

Technician A says that computers and the Internet are key factors in the daily operation of a typical truckshop. Technician B says that the digital computer has changed the world more rapidly than any other invention in the history of technology. Who is correct?

A) Technician A only
B) Technician B only
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 21

Who invented the fuel cell?

A) James Watt
B) William Grove
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Elon Musk

Question 22

Who invented the terms anode and cathode?

A) Etienne Lenoir
B) Alessandro Volta
C) Michael Faraday
D) Harry Ricardo

Question 23

Who identified the principles of electromagnetic induction?

A) Hans List
B) Robert Bosch
C) Allesandro Volta
D) Michael Faraday

Question 24

Who invented the first multiphase AC induction motor?

A) Robert Bosch
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) Vernon Roosa