$40 QUESTION -- Category: Dates
What energy product did Bridgeport, Connecticut, inventor
Harvey Hubbell patent on August 11, 1886?
- An electrically-operated scarecrow that twitched to frighten away
birds and administered a shock to those stubborn ones that landed on it.
- An electric-powered cooking stove.
- The first electric light socket featuring an on-and-off pull
chain.
Congratulations! You got that one correct. Give yourself $40.00!
(George B. Simpson of Washington, D.C., patented an electric range he called
an "electroheater" back on September 20, 1859).
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