Chapter 6~ Life In The Industrial Age Flashcards
English chemist who created the first simple electric motor and dynamo
Michael Faraday
Machine for generating electricity
Dyanamo
American inventor who made light bulb
Thomas Edision
Identical components for using in place of one another
Interchangeable parts
Workers add parts to a product that moves on a belt
Assembly line
Americans who designed the first airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Italian pioneer, radio
Guglielmo Marconi
Sold by owners to investors for capital
Stock
Businesses owned by many investors who buy shares of stock
Corporations
Group of cooperations who join forces to fix prices, set production quotes, or control markets
Cartel
Certain microbes might cause infectious diseases
Germ theory
Showed link between microbes and disease
Louis Pasteur
German doctor who identified the bacteria that causes turberculosis
Robert Koch
Army nurse that insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals
Florence Nightingale
Surgeon who discovered how antiseptics prevented infection
Joseph Lister
Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city
Urban renewal