Chapter 21 Flashcards
During the first Industrial Revolution ______ was the world”/ sole industrial giant
Britain
Led the way for the Second Industrial Revolution which transformed the economies of the Western World
The 20th Century
The two countries that led to industrial leadership were
Germany and the United States
Independently developed a new process for making steel from iron
William Kelly and Henry Bessemer
It removed carbon from steel making it lighter, harder, and more durable than iron, it could also be predicted cheaply
Bessemer Process
Became the major material used in tools, bridges, and railroads and steel production soared in industrialized countries
Steel
Invented dynamite-which was a much safer explosive material to use compared to others at the time
Alfred Nobel
Made Nobel extremely wealthy and thus funded the famous Nobel prizes to innovators, engineers, pioneers of their day
Dynamite
Developed the first battery around the year 1800
Alessandro Volta
Created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo
Michael Faraday
Is a machine that generates electricity
Dynamo
Made the first electric light bulb in the 1870s
Thomas Edison
By the 1890s ____ carried electrical power from dynamos to factories
Cables
Are intentional components that could be used in place of one another
Interchangeable parts
Parts were added to a product as it moved down a belt from one workstation to the next
Assembly line
During the Industrial revolution, ____________________ were transformed by technology
Transportation and Communication
Replaced sailing ships and the building of railroads boomed
Steamed Ships
Invented gasoline powered internal combustion engine
Nikolaus Otto
Received a patent for the first automobile (had only 3 wheels)
Karl Benz
Introduced the first four wheel automobile
Gottlieb Daimler
Started making models that reached the breathtaking speed of 25 miles per hour and also utilized the assembly line to mass-produce cars making the U.S. the leader in the automobile industry
Henry Ford
Designed and flew an airplane at Kitty Hawk (NC)
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Created the telegraph
Samuel F.B. Morse
This machine could send coded messages over wires by means of electricity
Telegraph
The first telegraph line went from
Washington D.C. and Baltimore
An undersea cable was relaying messages between Europe and North America called
Trans-Atlantic Cable
Patented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Had experimented with the “wireless” transmissions
Nikola Tesla
Invented the radio
Guglielmo Marconi
New Technologies required the investment of
Large amounts of money (or capital)
Are shared in their companies to people called investors
Stock
Are business that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock
Corporations
Had begun during the 1700s continued through the 1800s
Population explosion
Population increased due to
Death rate being declined drastically and medical advances and improvements in public sanitation also slowed death rates
Scientists theorized that certain microbes might cause specific infectious diseases, this was called
Germ theory
Showed the relationship between microbes and disease. Made contributions to medicine, including the development of vaccinations against rabies and anthrax. Also discover a process called pasteurization that killed disease-carrying microbes in milk
Louis Pasteur