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World History: Industrial Revolution - People - Inventions
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1. Inventor of the Flying Shuttle
Charles Linbergh
Domestic system
Gregor Mendel
John Kay
2. Invented telegraph
James Watt
Mercantilism
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Michael Faraday
3. Invented Steam Ship (Clermont) - 1807
Cyrus Field
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Robert Fulton
Adam Smith
4. Power source in 1800s that was organic
Michael Faraday
Mercantilism
white collar workers
Natural Gas
5. Started theory of Evolution and natural selection from research in Galapagos Island
John Dalton
Edward Jenner
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Charles Darwin
6. Invented telegraph
Gregor Mendel
Edmund Cartwright
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Robert Koch
7. Govt. regulates economy
Mercantilism
Great Britain
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
8. Leading power source - especially for steam engine
Alessandro Volta
Louis Pasteur
Coal
Edmund Cartwright
9. Discovered first anesthetics - substances that increased recovery speed - reduced pain - and relaxed patients
Eli Whitney
William T.G. Morton
Robert Koch
Charles Darwin
10. First trans-atlantic flight - 1927
Karl Benz
Charles Linbergh
Coal
George Stephenson
11. Inventor of Power Loom
Joseph Lister
Eli Whitney
Edmund Cartwright
Robert Fulton
12. Surgeon who first used antiseptics - to clean area of bacteria before surgery
Factories
Joseph Lister
Marie + Pierre Curie
William T.G. Morton
13. Invented the Radio around 1904-1912
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Eli Whitney
Mass Production System
Eli Whitney
14. Educated office people who wore white shirts - thrived in Industrialization
James Watt
blue collar workers
white collar workers
Gregor Mendel
15. Created first airplane 1903
Michael Faraday
Cyrus Field
Robert Fulton
Wright Bros.
16. Created first airplane 1903
Wilhelm Roentgen
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
Wright Bros.
17. Country that started Industrial Rev. - took over Textile Industry - Spread using Imperialism
Charles Darwin
Great Britain
Robert Koch
Wright Bros.
18. Started theory of Evolution and natural selection from research in Galapagos Island
Michael Faraday
Charles Darwin
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
19. Cities/Places where there were cheap housing - slums - epidemics - high-death rate based around Industry
Factory Towns
Mass Production System
James Hargreaves
Edward Jenner
20. 'Leave it alone' - Free economy document using ideas of Adam Smith - except for Govt. preventing monopolies
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Mass Production System
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Domestic system
21. Govt. regulates economy
Charles Linbergh
Domestic system
Edward Jenner
Mercantilism
22. 1 worker makes 1 part and then parts are assembled
Mass Production System
Charles Linbergh
Domestic system
Robert Koch
23. Invented Steam locomotive - 1814
Robert Koch
George Stephenson
Domestic system
Ironmaking
24. Genetics specialist who researched the pigment of the pea plant
James Watt
Eli Whitney
Electric Generator
Gregor Mendel
25. Power source for power and fuel
Adam Smith
Natural Gas
Petroleum
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
26. Altered theory of Magnetism - stating magnetism generates electricity
John Dalton
Joseph Lister
Michael Faraday
Karl Benz
27. Discovered first anesthetics - substances that increased recovery speed - reduced pain - and relaxed patients
William T.G. Morton
Edmund Cartwright
Thomas Edison
Factory Towns
28. Factory workers - poor - uneducated - stagnant - suffered in Industrialization
Edward Jenner
blue collar workers
Wilhelm Roentgen
Ironmaking
29. Invented Electric battery
William T.G. Morton
Charles Linbergh
Karl Benz
Alessandro Volta
30. Father of Industrial Rev. - Improved the steam engine
Factory Towns
Robert Fulton
blue collar workers
James Watt
31. Increased production due to demand for machinery and tools
Thomas Edison
Ironmaking
Marie + Pierre Curie
Domestic system
32. Invented the Radio around 1904-1912
Coal
Alessandro Volta
James Watt
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
33. Surgeon who first used antiseptics - to clean area of bacteria before surgery
Edward Jenner
Joseph Lister
Petroleum
Adam Smith
34. Steam Engine inventer Who was overshadowed by James Watt
Natural Gas
Thomas Newcomen
Guglielmo Merconi
Eli Whitney
35. Invented Steam locomotive - 1814
Edmund Cartwright
Factory Towns
Wilhelm Roentgen
George Stephenson
36. Steam Engine inventer Who was overshadowed by James Watt
Mercantilism
Karl Benz
Thomas Newcomen
Cyrus Field
37. Cities/Places where there were cheap housing - slums - epidemics - high-death rate based around Industry
Electric Generator
James Watt
John Kay
Factory Towns
38. Economics where work is done from homes
Domestic system
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
Charles Linbergh
39. 'Leave it alone' - Free economy document using ideas of Adam Smith - except for Govt. preventing monopolies
Coal
Great Britain
Cyrus Field
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
40. Mass-scientist - perfected electric generator and light bulb
Thomas Edison
Alessandro Volta
Marie + Pierre Curie
Great Britain
41. Produced first vaccination - it was for small pox in 1796
white collar workers
Edward Jenner
Factories
Alessandro Volta
42. First trans-atlantic flight - 1927
Charles Linbergh
Edward Jenner
blue collar workers
Guglielmo Merconi
43. Proved bacterial diseases - created rabies + anthrax vaccines - DISCOVERED PASTEURIZATION to kill bacteria
Marie + Pierre Curie
Louis Pasteur
Wright Bros.
Electric Generator
44. Inventor of the Cotton Gin - 1793
Eli Whitney
James Watt
Cyrus Field
John Kay
45. Leading power source - especially for steam engine
Domestic system
Coal
Louis Pasteur
white collar workers
46. Inventor of the Spinning Jenny (wheel)
James Hargreaves
Cyrus Field
Thomas Newcomen
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
47. Invented Electric battery
Alessandro Volta
blue collar workers
Robert Fulton
Mass Production System
48. Creator of Dalton's atomic theory in 1803
Eli Whitney
John Dalton
Factories
Thomas Newcomen
49. Inventor of the Cotton Gin - 1793
William T.G. Morton
Eli Whitney
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Great Britain
50. Invented trans-atlantic cable that linked Europe to US for telegraphs
Karl Benz
Cyrus Field
Eli Whitney
Great Britain