the second industrial revolution

Question 1

Charles Darwin

Answer 1

theory of evolution, “On the Origin of Species”

Question 2

Auguste Comte

Answer 2

founder of sociology

Question 3

Thomas Alva Edison

Answer 3

the electric light bulb (incandescent lamp)

Question 4

Nikola Tesla

Answer 4

alternating current electricity, the first AC hydroelectric power plants in the United States, Niagara Falls

Question 5

John Dalton

Answer 5

The Atomic Theory, Daltonism (colour blindness)

Question 6

Gregor Mendel

Answer 6

foundation of the Science of Genetics

Question 7

Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Answer 7

The Father of the Period Table (of elements)

Question 8

Alfred Nobel

Answer 8

dynamite

Question 9

Marie Curie Sklodowska

Answer 9

Theory of Radioactivity, discovery of polonium and radium

Question 10

Albert Einstein

Answer 10

The Theory of Relativity

Question 11

Louis Pasteur

Answer 11

bacteriology, vaccination, pasteurization

Question 12

Rober Koch

Answer 12

bacteriology - discovered the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis and cholera

Question 13

Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen

Answer 13

x-rays or Röntgen rays

Question 14

Samuel Morse

Answer 14

telegraph, The Morse Code

Question 15

Alexandar Graham Bell

Answer 15

telephone