$40 QUESTION -- Category: Dates

What energy product did Bridgeport, Connecticut, inventor Harvey Hubbell patent on August 11, 1886?

  1. An electrically-operated scarecrow that twitched to frighten away birds and administered a shock to those stubborn ones that landed on it.

  2. An electric-powered cooking stove.

  3. The first electric light socket featuring an on-and-off pull chain.


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