Question
Answer the following about the inventions of Clément Ader, for 10 points each.
[10e] King Luis I of Portugal and Marcel Proust were both subscribers to an Ader invention that used this technology to allow people to listen to the opera. In the US, this technology was monopolized by AT&T.
ANSWER: telephone [or telephony; prompt on electricity]
[10m] Ader came up with numerous failed designs for innovations in this industry. The Smithsonian long recognized S. P. Langley’s achievements in this industry over those of a family from Ohio.
ANSWER: aviation industry [or airplane industry or air industry; accept synonyms like flight] (The Ohio family was the Wright Brothers.)
[10h] Ader lends his name to a factory operated by this Toulouse-based aerospace conglomerate, formed from a merger of French, German, and Spanish aerospace and defense firms in the 1970s.
ANSWER: Airbus [or Airbus Industrie]
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