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Chapter 13 Flashcards

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Henry Bessemer

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Developed a new process for making steel from iron

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Alfred Nobel

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Invented dynamite. A safer explosive

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Michael Faraday

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Created first simple electric motor and first dynamo

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Dynamo

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A machine that generates electricity

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Thomas Edison

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Created the first electric lightbulb

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Interchangeable parts

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identical components that could be used in place of one another

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Assembly line

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Moving belt. Different people do different tasks

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Orville and Wilbur Wright

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designed and flew a flimsy airplane at Kitty Hawk, NC

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Invented radio>allowed wireless communication over long distances

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Stock

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Shares of their company. Sold to investors

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Corporations

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Businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock

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Cartel

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A group of corporations that would join.>an association to fix prices

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Germ Theory

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Theory that certain microbes might cause specific infectious diseases

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Louis Pasteur

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French Chemist who showed a clear link between microbes and disease. Developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax. Also discovered pasteurization that killed disease-carrying microbes in milk

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Robert Koch

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German doctor who identified the bacteria that caused tuberculosis

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Florence Nightingale

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insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals. Also founded first school of nursing

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Joseph Lister

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Discovered how antiseptics prevented infection. Insisted that surgeons sterilize their instruments and wash their hands before operating

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Urban renewal

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Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city

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Mutual societies

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Self-help groups to aid sick or injured workers

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Industrial revolution

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Rapid development of industry. Ex: Factories

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Anesthetic

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Pain-preventing drug for surgery

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Enclosure

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Process of taking over and combining lands formerly shared by peasant farmers

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James Watt

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Made new improvements on the engine to make more efficient

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Capital

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Money used to invest in enterprises

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Enterprise

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A business organization in an area such as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories

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entrepreneur

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A business owner

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Eli Whitney

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Invented cotton gin: separated seeds from raw cotton at fast pace

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Turnpikes

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Private roads built by entrepreneurs who charged travelers a toll, or a fee to use

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Smelt

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To separate iron from its ore

30
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Putting out system

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Raw cotton was distributed to peasant families who spun it into thread then wove the thread into cloth in their own homes

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