Chpt 9 Industrial age Flashcards
Who led Europe in industry?
Germany
Who became the world’s leading industrial power?
The US
Who patented a new process for making steel from iron?
Henry Bessemer
Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
Who created the first electric motor and the new dynamo (dynamite?)
Micheal Faraday
Who developed the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
What did assembly lines do?
They divided labor and made production faster and cheaper
Who used the assembly line to mass-produce
American, Henry Ford
When was the first airplane flown and who designed it
Orville and Wilbur Wright, 1903
What did Samuel B. Morse develop?
The Telegraph
Who invented the radio?
Italian, Guglielmo Marconi
Reformers called for what to prevent monopolies
Laws
True or False, Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company was a monopoly
True
Who proved the germ theory by showing the link between microbes and disease?
Louis Pasteur
Who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis?
Robert Roch
The poor died from what after surgery
infection
Who insisted on better hospital sanitation?
Florence Nightingale
Who urged surgeons to sterilize medical instruments?
Joseph Lister
Who destroyed medieval streets to build wide boulevards, contributing to the urban renewal of Paris?
George Haussman
Who designed the first skyscraper?
American, Louis Sullivan
What class earned the right to organize and use strikes to demand better working conditions?
The working class
upper class
rich business families with noble titles
growing middle class
doctors/ scientist
lower middle class
teachers/ office
