Midterm STS Flashcards
1
Q
Great problems that were or being solved by science and technology
A
- poverty
- diseases
- starvation
- wars
- transportation and communication
- illiteracy and ignorance
2
Q
great problems that were or being caused
A
- pollution that causes diseases
- possible global warming
- threat of overpopulation
- production of weapons of mass destruction
- mass exploitation
3
Q
alexander popov
A
first to communicate messages by radio waves
4
Q
alexander graham bell
A
telephone
5
Q
alexander fleming
A
penicillin
6
Q
bill gates
A
microsoft
7
Q
Samuel morse
A
single-wire telegraph and morse code
8
Q
Thomas edison
A
phonograph, motion picture camera, light bulb
9
Q
James watt
A
steam engine
10
Q
George Ohm
A
Ohm law, the amount of steady current through a material is directly proportional to the voltage across a material
11
Q
Wright brothers
A
airplane
12
Q
Michael farday
A
contributed to electromagnetism and electrochem, benzene, Bunsen burner, oxidation numbers
13
Q
volta
A
battery
14
Q
Raymond Danmadian
A
MRI
15
Q
Gregor Mendel
A
modern science of genetics
