Chapter 19 Flashcards
What is another name for the Industrial Revolution?
Age of Industry
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
Name one inventor included in the textile industry
John Kay, Samuel Crompton, Edmund Cartwright
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who invented the steam engine?
James Watt
Who invented the miners’ safety lamp?
Sir Humphrey Davy
Created the iron ore to steel process
Henry Bessemer
Who invented the first successful steamboat?
Robert Fulton
Who invented the first successful steam locomotive (train)?
George Stephenson
Who is known for the automobile in America?
Henry Ford
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the lightbulb and was the greatest inventor in history?
Thomas Edison
Who is known for their work with radiation?
Pierre and Marie Curie
Who came up with the germ theory?
Louis Pasteur
Who is known for his work with antiseptics?
Joseph Lister
Who is known for being a giant in the oil industry?
John D. Rockefeller
who was known for being a giant in the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
Who was known for being a giant in the banking industry?
J.P. Morgan
What means love of humans?
philanthropy
What is the most critical material factor in determining how far a nation may advance?
master of the food supply
What is the way of life based on the biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and that all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God?
Protestant work ethic
Who invented the seed drill?
Jethro Tull
What’s the money you make compared to like how much you have to spend to live?
real wages
