Chapter 6: Life in the Industrial Age

This man revolutionized the way to manufacture steel by making the process quicker and more efficient

invented dynamite, felt bad that it was being used for bad; he invented the Nobel Peace Prize for peace workers

created the first simple electric motor and the first dynamo

a machine used to generate electricity

invented the photograph, transmittter, safe electric lightbulb picture camera and projector. Most well known for his organized research and established a buisness that managed them

identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing

production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks

These brothers were bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio who built and flew the first plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903.

Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio

shares in a company

business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk only the amount of their investment

a group of companies that join together to control the production and price of a product

the theory that infectious diseases are caused by certain microbes

French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization

This was the first man to isolate a bacterium and a virus and as a result h could create new vaccines for the disease

British nurse whose emphasis on cleanliness and training for nurses revolutionized health care.

English surgeon, taught doctors the importance of washing hands before operating

the process of fixing up the poor areas of a city

self-help groups to aid sick or injured workers

measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society

idealization of women and the home

campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

Co-founded the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York

right of women to vote

former slave and abolitionist who spoke in favor of abolition and women’s rights?

English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures

English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection

belief that one racial group is superior to another

movement of the 1800s that urged Christians to do social service

a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life

romantic poet who called early factories “satanic mills” and protested against life of the poor

nineteenth-century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason

British romantic poet; wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, in which he dramatizes himself as a romantic hero; died in Greece fighting Ottomans

lead french romantics, work reflected the romantic fasination with history and the individual

This pianist was considered the master of Romanticism music

nineteenth-century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is

English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice

most famous member of realist school. Painted only things that he saw. Phrase “realism” was coined in reaction to one of his paintings. All of his works represented everyday life.

improved on earlier technologies to produce successful photographs

school of painting of the late 1800s and early 1900s that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions

a French painter who used a impressionism called “super-realism,” capture overall impression of the thing they were painting

dutch post impressionist artist. painted “the starry night” 1889. mentally ill in later life. cut off his own ear. influential in the world of painting, very famous