Industrial Age

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Robert Fulton

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American inventor who powered his steamboat with one of James watts’ steam engines

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William Cockerill

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A British mechanic who open factories in Belgium and 1807 to manufacture spinning and weaving machines, Belgium became the first European nation after Britain to industrialize

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Henry Bessemer

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Worked with American inventor William Kelly who and together they independently developed a new process for making steel from iron, Bessemer patented this process in 1856

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Alfred Nobel

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Swedish chemist who invented dynamite in 1866, in explosive much safer than others used at the time

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Alessandro Volta

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In Italian scientist who developed the first battery around 1800

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Michael Faraday

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In English chemist who created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo

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Dynamo

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A machine that generates electricity, today all electrical generators and transformers work on the principle of faradays dynamo

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Thomas Edison

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In American inventor who made the first electric light bulb in the 1870s

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Interchangeable parts

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Identical components that could be used in place of one another, these parts simplified both the assembly and repair of products

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The assembly line

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Workers a new method of production, workers on an assembly line added parts to a product that moves along a belt from once workstation to the next

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Nikolaus Otto

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A German engineer who invented a gasoline powered internal combustion engine

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Karl Benz

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In 1886 he received a patent for the first automobile which had three wheels

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Gottlieb Daimler

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Introduced at the first four wheeled automobile in 1887

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Henry Ford

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An American who started making models of automobiles that reach the breath taking speed of 25 mph in the early 1900, ford began using the assembly line to mass produce cars, making the United States a leader in the automobile industry

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Orville and Wilbur Wright

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American bicycle makers and brothers who designed and flu a flimsy airplane at Kitty Hawk North Carolina in 1903

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Samuel F.B. Morse

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An American inventor who developed the telegraph, which could send coded messages over wires by means of electricity. His first telegraph line went into service between DC and Baltimore in 1844

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Alexander Graham Bell

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The Scottish born American inventor who patented the telephone in 1876

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Nikola tesla

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Man who experimented with wireless transmissions

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Gugliemo Marconi

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Italian pioneer who had invented the radio

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Stocks

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Shares in their companies

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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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Alfred Krupp

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German who inherited a steel making business from his father and bought up Cole and iron mines as well as or deposits. Later he and his son acquired plants that made tools railroad cars and weapons

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John d. Rockefeller

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An American who built standard oil company into an empire and by gaining control of oil wells oil refineries in oil pipelines he dominated the American petroleum industry

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Cartel

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An association to fix prices, set production quotas, or control markets

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Germ theory

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The theory that infectious diseases are caused by certain microbes

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Louie Pasteur

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French chemist, who in 1870, clearly showed the link between microbes and disease, he also developed the vaccines against rabies and anthrax and discover the process if pasteurization, that kills disease carrying microbes in milk.

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Robert Koch

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German doctor who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis. In the 1800s

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Florence Nightingale

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A British nurse who insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals while working in the Crimean war and worked to insure sanitary measures in British hospitals and founded the worlds first school of nursing

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Joseph lister

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English surgeon who discovered how antiseptics prevented infection. He 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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Georges Haussmann

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Chief planner for Napolean III, destroyed many tangled medieval streets full of tenement housing. He built wide boulevards and public buildings in their place.

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Louis Sullivan

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American architect who pioneered a new structure, the skyscraper

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Mutual-aid societies

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Self help groups formed by workers to aid sick or injured workers

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Cult of domesticity

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Ideal that women should stay at home

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Temperance movement

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A campaign to limit or be the use of alcoholic beverages

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Crusaded against ska very in the United States before organizing a movement for women’s rights, with Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony

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Julia Brainerd Hall

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Worked with her brother to develop an aluminum producing process. They’re company became highly successful, but her brother Charles received most of the credit

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Seneca falls convention of 1848

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Demanded that women in the United States be granted the right to vote

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Women’s suffrage

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Women’s right to vote

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Sojourner Truth

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An African American suffragist who said “nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?” In reply to people who didn’t want the female population to vote

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John dalton

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English quaker school teacher who developed the modern atomic theory

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Atomic theory

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Dalton showed that each element had its own kind of particles called atoms. Earlier theories said all atoms we’re alike

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Dmitri mendeleyev

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Russian chemist who drew up a table that grouped elements according to their atomic weights. His table became the basis for the periodic table of elements

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Charles lyell

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Author of the principles of geology who offered evidence to show that earth formed over millions of years, and his successor concluded earth was at least 2 billion years old and life had not developed until long after.

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Charles Darwin

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British naturalist who published the “on the origin of species” where he argued that all forms of life, including humans had evolved into their current state over millions of years. To explain this he put forward his theory of natural selection

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Social Darwinism

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Applying the idea of survival of the fittest to war and economic competition. Promoted ideas of racism. Society survives because it is better

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Racism

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The unscientific belief that one racial group is superior to another

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Social gospel

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A movement that urged Christians to social service, they campaigned for reforms in housing, healthcare, and education.