People quiz (13) Flashcards
Henry Bessemer
New process for making steel
Alfred Nobel
Dynamite
Alessandro Volta
Battery
Thomas Edison
Lightbulb, “talking machine,” movie projector, 1093 patents, Founder of General Electric
Nikolaus O. Otto
Internal combustion engine
Gottlieb Daimler
Automobile
Henry Ford
Mass produced the automobile. Assembly line
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Airplane
Samuel Morse
Telegraph
Guglielmo Marconi
Radio (wireless)
Alexander Graham Bell
telephone
Lois Pasteur
Pasteurization, rabies vaccine
Joseph Lister
antiseptics
Evangeline Bal
Salvation Army
Florence Nightingale
Nursing
Charles Darwin
Natural selection, survival of the fittest
Alfred Krupp
German industrialists (Steel)
John D. Rockefeller
Oil
Charles Dickens
British author, realist
Emile Zola
Author of Germinal (defend Alfred Drefus)
Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables
Louis Daguene
Camera
Georges Seurat
painter (dots)
Vincent Van Gogh
Post impressionist. Starry night