Chapter 19 The Age of Industry
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- revolution
- complete change or turning around
- J.P Morgan
- banking industry
- Samuel Morse
- electric telegraph
- Guglielmo Marconi
- wireless telegraph and radio
- Age of Industry
- began from Industrial Revolution 1760-1900
- Robert Fulton
- first practical steamship
- Karl Benz
- invented first modern automobile
- philanthropy
- love of mankind
- Capitalism
- private ownership of the means of producition
- Eli Whitney
- cotton gin
- Alexander Graham Bell
- telephone in 1876
- John Dalton
- atomic theory
- Rudolf Diesel
- diesel engine
- James Hargreaves
- spinning jenny
- factory system
- many people employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way for wages
- John D. Rockefeller
- oil industry
- James Clerk Maxwell
- foundation for electrical engineering
- James Watt
- steam engine
- John Deere
- steel plow
- Cyrus Field
- first successful transatlantic telegraph cable
- Thomas Alva Edison
- "Wizard of Menlo Park"
- Sir Humphry Davy
- miner's safety lamp
- Enclosure Movement
- landowners enclose their land with fences or hedges in order to raise sheep
- Jethro Tull
- seed drill
- Pierre and Marie Curie
- polonium and radium
- George Stephenson
- first practical steampowered locomotive; railroad
- Richard Arkwright
- spinning frame
- Adam Smith
- wrote "Wealth of Nations"
- Cyrus McCormick
- reaper
- Lord Kelvin
- laws of thermodynamics
- Joseph Lister
- antiseptics
- Michael Faraday
- discovered relationship between electricity and magnetism leading to invention of electric motor and electric generator
- Protestant work ethic
- way of life based on Biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God
- Edward Jenner
- developed the first vaccine
- free trade
- trade without government interference
- John Kay
- flying shuttle
- Samuel Crompton
- spinning mule
- domestic system
- work done in small private shops, usually within the home
- Henry Ford
- improved first modern automobile
- Industrial Revolution
- time of dramatic changes in agriculture, industry, and technology
- Edmund Cartwright
- power loom
- Bessemer and Kelly
- developed the iron to steel process
- Louis Pasteur
- germ theory of disease
- substinence farming
- growing just enough food to feed own families
- Gottlieb Daimler
- internal combustion engine
- Andrew Carnegie
- steel industry; wrote "Gospel of Wealth"