test 8 Flashcards
growing just enough food to survive
subsistence farming
most critical factor for the advancement of a nation
mastery of food supply
steel plow
John Deere
allowed work to be done in homes or private shops
domestic system
mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
wages compared to the cost of living
real wages
large number of people employed to produce goods in manufactured ways
factory system
flying shuttle
John Kay
industrial revolution began here
England’s textile factories
spinning mule
Samuel Crompton
enabled landowners to control livestock
enclosure movement
practical, coal-burning steam engine
James Watt
cotton gin
Eli Whitney
miners safety lamp
Sir Humphrey Davy
first electric telegraph machine
Samuel Morse
canals
Erie and suez
first steam-powered LOCOTMOTIVE
Stephenson
first modern automobile
Henry ford
first steamSHIP
Fulton
first transatlantic cable
Cyrus Field
Diesel Engine
Rudolph Diesel
first vaccine for small pox
Edward Jenner
atomic theory
Dalton
internal combustion engine
Daimler