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World History: Industrial Revolution - People - Inventions
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1. Disliked mercantilism - supported free economy - law of supply + demand - law of competition - Self-regulating markets
Thomas Edison
Charles Darwin
Marie + Pierre Curie
Adam Smith
2. Inventor of the Cotton Gin - 1793
William T.G. Morton
white collar workers
Eli Whitney
Charles Darwin
3. Power source for power and fuel
Edward Jenner
Mercantilism
Petroleum
Louis Pasteur
4. Educated office people who wore white shirts - thrived in Industrialization
Karl Benz
white collar workers
Edward Jenner
Charles Darwin
5. Discovered first anesthetics - substances that increased recovery speed - reduced pain - and relaxed patients
Charles Linbergh
William T.G. Morton
Edward Jenner
Petroleum
6. Invented the Radio around 1904-1912
John Kay
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
white collar workers
Alessandro Volta
7. Invented telegraph
Mercantilism
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Louis Pasteur
Guglielmo Merconi
8. Invented Combustion engine - automobile - 1885
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Karl Benz
Wright Bros.
Thomas Edison
9. Invented trans-atlantic cable that linked Europe to US for telegraphs
Factory Towns
Charles Linbergh
Cyrus Field
James Watt
10. Govt. regulates economy
Ironmaking
George Stephenson
Guglielmo Merconi
Mercantilism
11. Produced first vaccination - it was for small pox in 1796
James Watt
Robert Koch
Karl Benz
Edward Jenner
12. Altered theory of Magnetism - stating magnetism generates electricity
Coal
Cyrus Field
Thomas Edison
Michael Faraday
13. Created first airplane 1903
Thomas Edison
Robert Fulton
Mercantilism
Wright Bros.
14. Invented by Hypolite Pixii (he is unimportant) in 1832
Gregor Mendel
Electric Generator
Coal
John Dalton
15. Invented Combustion engine - automobile - 1885
Factory Towns
James Hargreaves
Karl Benz
Charles Linbergh
16. Produced first vaccination - it was for small pox in 1796
Mercantilism
Ironmaking
Mass Production System
Edward Jenner
17. Govt. regulates economy
Mercantilism
white collar workers
George Stephenson
white collar workers
18. Invented Steam Ship (Clermont) - 1807
Domestic system
Factory Towns
Robert Fulton
James Hargreaves
19. Started theory of Evolution and natural selection from research in Galapagos Island
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Electric Generator
Charles Darwin
Wilhelm Roentgen
20. Country that started Industrial Rev. - took over Textile Industry - Spread using Imperialism
Electric Generator
John Dalton
Great Britain
George Stephenson
21. Started theory of Evolution and natural selection from research in Galapagos Island
John Kay
Eli Whitney
Charles Darwin
Mass Production System
22. Invented telegraph
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Wilhelm Roentgen
Coal
Factories
23. Increased production due to demand for machinery and tools
Petroleum
Adam Smith
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Ironmaking
24. Mass-scientist - perfected electric generator and light bulb
Wright Bros.
Wilhelm Roentgen
Alessandro Volta
Thomas Edison
25. Invented the Radio around 1904-1912
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Coal
Michael Faraday
Louis Pasteur
26. 1 worker makes 1 part and then parts are assembled
Mass Production System
Michael Faraday
blue collar workers
Louis Pasteur
27. Invented the wireless telegraph - 1895
Karl Benz
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Joseph Lister
Guglielmo Merconi
28. Economics where work is done from homes
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Domestic system
Thomas Newcomen
Electric Generator
29. Mass-scientist - perfected electric generator and light bulb
blue collar workers
Michael Faraday
Thomas Edison
John Dalton
30. Genetics specialist who researched the pigment of the pea plant
white collar workers
Robert Fulton
white collar workers
Gregor Mendel
31. 'Leave it alone' - Free economy document using ideas of Adam Smith - except for Govt. preventing monopolies
Mercantilism
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Domestic system
Michael Faraday
32. Power source in 1800s that was organic
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
George Stephenson
Natural Gas
Eli Whitney
33. Created first airplane 1903
Eli Whitney
Wright Bros.
Factory Towns
William T.G. Morton
34. Idea for standardized/ interchangeable parts for machinery
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Guglielmo Merconi
Eli Whitney
Ironmaking
35. Invented by Hypolite Pixii (he is unimportant) in 1832
Louis Pasteur
Petroleum
Electric Generator
blue collar workers
36. Creator of Dalton's atomic theory in 1803
Edmund Cartwright
Factory Towns
James Hargreaves
John Dalton
37. Invented the wireless telegraph - 1895
Mercantilism
Charles Darwin
Electric Generator
Guglielmo Merconi
38. First trans-atlantic flight - 1927
John Dalton
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Charles Linbergh
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
39. German who invented the X-ray
Wilhelm Roentgen
Edward Jenner
Thomas Edison
Karl Benz
40. Inventor of the Flying Shuttle
Adam Smith
Charles Linbergh
John Kay
Natural Gas
41. German who invented the X-ray
Karl Benz
Mercantilism
John Kay
Wilhelm Roentgen
42. First trans-atlantic flight - 1927
Robert Koch
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Charles Linbergh
white collar workers
43. Invented Electric battery
Alessandro Volta
white collar workers
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Charles Darwin
44. Buildings where large machinery was housed - GB had first
Cyrus Field
Factories
James Hargreaves
Electric Generator
45. Factory workers - poor - uneducated - stagnant - suffered in Industrialization
Natural Gas
Louis Pasteur
blue collar workers
Mass Production System
46. Power source for power and fuel
Coal
Marie + Pierre Curie
Petroleum
white collar workers
47. Invented trans-atlantic cable that linked Europe to US for telegraphs
Cyrus Field
white collar workers
Factory Towns
Thomas Newcomen
48. Invented Steam Ship (Clermont) - 1807
Electric Generator
Alessandro Volta
Robert Fulton
Adam Smith
49. Increased production due to demand for machinery and tools
James Watt
George Stephenson
Ironmaking
William T.G. Morton
50. Researched bacteria and discovered tuberculosis and cholera
Natural Gas
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Robert Koch
Karl Benz