| ERNSTVONSIEMENS | Which German inventor laid the first telegraph line, built the first electric railway in Germany and |
| ROSELLE | New Jersey borough where Edison built the first electric lighting system |
| EASTERN | The Great ---, ship which laid the first Transatlantic telegraph cable (7) |
| VOLK | Magnus ___, builder of the world's oldest operational electric railway, in Brighton (4) |
| ARC | Circle Line built amidst anarchy (3) |
| HATH | Word in the first telegraph message |
| SAMUELMORSE | US painter and inventor who contributed to the invesntion of the first electric telegraph in the 1830s (6,5) |
| MORSE | Samuel ---, American inventor of the first electric telegraph and a communications code which bears his name (5) |
| DARWIN | Port Augusta and which other place were the termini of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line? (6) |
| STREETLAMP | The first electric one was used in Paris in the 1870s |
| CHAINSAW | Portable power tool, usually petrol powered, although the first electric version was built in 1926 (8) |
| ALUMINIUM | In the twenties they built the first plane made entirely of this metal - even the Wright brothers used it in the engine block to reduce weight |
| STEPHENSON | George ___, English engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives (10) |
| KARLOFF | Actor who had jobs as a railway baggage handler and laying track for the British Columbia Electric Railway before landing roles in Hollywood films (5,7) |
| GOTTLIEB | And 21. German inventor who, in 1885, built one of the earliest roadworthy motor cars (8,7) |
| HOOKE | English polymath who formulated the law of elasticity, developed the balance spring, built the first Gregorian telescope and coined the word "cell"(5) |
| THEAGEOFDYNOSAWS | What the first electric wood-cutting devices ushered in? |
| CASIO | Which company made the first electric compact calculator? (5) |
| WESTERN | Founded in the mid-19th century, this US company built the first transcontinental telegraph cable (7,5) |
| UNION | Founded in the mid-19th century, this US company built the first transcontinental telegraph cable (7,5) |
