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World History: Industrial Revolution - People - Inventions
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1. Inventor of the Spinning Jenny (wheel)
Electric Generator
Gregor Mendel
Michael Faraday
James Hargreaves
2. Country that started Industrial Rev. - took over Textile Industry - Spread using Imperialism
Great Britain
Domestic system
Charles Darwin
Natural Gas
3. Mass-scientist - perfected electric generator and light bulb
Thomas Edison
Eli Whitney
Edmund Cartwright
Eli Whitney
4. Inventor of the Cotton Gin - 1793
Eli Whitney
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Edward Jenner
Adam Smith
5. Genetics specialist who researched the pigment of the pea plant
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Joseph Lister
Gregor Mendel
Robert Koch
6. Power source for power and fuel
Cyrus Field
Eli Whitney
Edward Jenner
Petroleum
7. Surgeon who first used antiseptics - to clean area of bacteria before surgery
Guglielmo Merconi
Marie + Pierre Curie
Joseph Lister
William T.G. Morton
8. Invented Electric battery
Alessandro Volta
Wilhelm Roentgen
Robert Koch
Petroleum
9. Created first airplane 1903
blue collar workers
Petroleum
Wright Bros.
Michael Faraday
10. Invented Steam Ship (Clermont) - 1807
Guglielmo Merconi
Michael Faraday
Cyrus Field
Robert Fulton
11. 'Leave it alone' - Free economy document using ideas of Adam Smith - except for Govt. preventing monopolies
Adam Smith
Electric Generator
Natural Gas
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
12. Invented the Radio around 1904-1912
Guglielmo Merconi
Adam Smith
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Karl Benz
13. Idea for standardized/ interchangeable parts for machinery
white collar workers
Adam Smith
Eli Whitney
Gregor Mendel
14. Increased production due to demand for machinery and tools
James Hargreaves
Karl Benz
Ironmaking
Factory Towns
15. Discovered first anesthetics - substances that increased recovery speed - reduced pain - and relaxed patients
white collar workers
Petroleum
Factories
William T.G. Morton
16. German who invented the X-ray
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Wilhelm Roentgen
Gregor Mendel
John Dalton
17. Creator of Dalton's atomic theory in 1803
John Dalton
Alessandro Volta
Charles Darwin
Edward Jenner
18. Country that started Industrial Rev. - took over Textile Industry - Spread using Imperialism
Great Britain
Cyrus Field
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Ironmaking
19. Invented Steam Ship (Clermont) - 1807
Robert Fulton
Michael Faraday
Alessandro Volta
Cyrus Field
20. Invented the wireless telegraph - 1895
Thomas Newcomen
Electric Generator
William T.G. Morton
Guglielmo Merconi
21. Father of Industrial Rev. - Improved the steam engine
Wilhelm Roentgen
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Petroleum
James Watt
22. Invented Steam locomotive - 1814
George Stephenson
James Watt
Natural Gas
Charles Darwin
23. Inventor of Power Loom
Alessandro Volta
Robert Fulton
Karl Benz
Edmund Cartwright
24. Invented by Hypolite Pixii (he is unimportant) in 1832
Marie + Pierre Curie
Electric Generator
James Watt
Thomas Newcomen
25. 1 worker makes 1 part and then parts are assembled
Mass Production System
James Hargreaves
Petroleum
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
26. Leading power source - especially for steam engine
Coal
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Mercantilism
Wright Bros.
27. Researched bacteria and discovered tuberculosis and cholera
Wright Bros.
Charles Linbergh
Robert Koch
Joseph Lister
28. Cities/Places where there were cheap housing - slums - epidemics - high-death rate based around Industry
Factory Towns
Natural Gas
Natural Gas
Factories
29. Invented trans-atlantic cable that linked Europe to US for telegraphs
Joseph Lister
blue collar workers
Edward Jenner
Cyrus Field
30. Factory workers - poor - uneducated - stagnant - suffered in Industrialization
Edward Jenner
blue collar workers
Mercantilism
James Hargreaves
31. Produced first vaccination - it was for small pox in 1796
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Edward Jenner
Marie + Pierre Curie
32. Inventor of the Cotton Gin - 1793
Joseph Lister
Eli Whitney
Cyrus Field
blue collar workers
33. Started theory of Evolution and natural selection from research in Galapagos Island
Gregor Mendel
Charles Darwin
Alessandro Volta
William T.G. Morton
34. 1 worker makes 1 part and then parts are assembled
George Stephenson
Mass Production System
Ironmaking
white collar workers
35. Power source in 1800s that was organic
Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteur
Natural Gas
Edmund Cartwright
36. Inventor of the Flying Shuttle
John Kay
Charles Darwin
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Natural Gas
37. Scientists who studied radioactive elements - discovered radium and polomium - died of cancer from radiation exposure - received Nobel Prize in science
Factories
George Stephenson
Marie + Pierre Curie
Louis Pasteur
38. Invented Electric battery
Alessandro Volta
blue collar workers
Great Britain
Electric Generator
39. Inventor of the Spinning Jenny (wheel)
white collar workers
Factory Towns
James Hargreaves
Petroleum
40. Invented by Hypolite Pixii (he is unimportant) in 1832
Electric Generator
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
Great Britain
Thomas Newcomen
41. Invented telegraph
Ironmaking
John Kay
Marie + Pierre Curie
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
42. Steam Engine inventer Who was overshadowed by James Watt
Thomas Newcomen
Alessandro Volta
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
James Watt
43. Researched bacteria and discovered tuberculosis and cholera
Robert Koch
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse
Wilhelm Roentgen
Great Britain
44. Educated office people who wore white shirts - thrived in Industrialization
Edmund Cartwright
Petroleum
white collar workers
John Flemming and Lee De Forest
45. Proved bacterial diseases - created rabies + anthrax vaccines - DISCOVERED PASTEURIZATION to kill bacteria
Louis Pasteur
Mercantilism
Great Britain
George Stephenson
46. Produced first vaccination - it was for small pox in 1796
Karl Benz
Wilhelm Roentgen
Doctrine of Laissez-faire
Edward Jenner
47. Power source in 1800s that was organic
Natural Gas
Domestic system
Coal
Mass Production System
48. Invented the wireless telegraph - 1895
Cyrus Field
Louis Pasteur
Edmund Cartwright
Guglielmo Merconi
49. Disliked mercantilism - supported free economy - law of supply + demand - law of competition - Self-regulating markets
Adam Smith
Edmund Cartwright
Thomas Newcomen
Karl Benz
50. Discovered first anesthetics - substances that increased recovery speed - reduced pain - and relaxed patients
Ironmaking
Marie + Pierre Curie
William T.G. Morton
Charles Wheatstone - William Coole - Samuel Morse