Lesson 4.3 The Second Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Henry Bessemer
British inventor and engineer, he mad the bessemer converter which manufactured steel quickly and inexpensively.
Alfred Nobel
was a Swedish chemist, inventor and engineer, businessman and author. he made dynamite and holds 355 parents.
Michael Faraday
A British chemist and physicist who made helped in electricity
Dynamo
A machine used to generate electricity
Thomas Edison
An inventor and artist who helped in telecommunications, electric power, mining, sound recording, automotive, military defense, and motion pictures.
Interchangeable parts
Identical components they can be used in place of on another in manufacturing.
Assembly line
a production method that breaks down a complex job onto a series of smaller tasks.
Orille and Wilbur wright
bicycle mechanics who used their knowledge of science and their experience on mechanics to create the first flying machine
Guglielmo Marconi
An Italian inventor who received the first patent for a wirelesse telegraphy system
Stock
Share of ownership in a company
Corporation
a business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk the amount of there investment
Cartel
A group of companies that join together to control the production and price of a product
Germ theory
The theory that infectious diseases are caused by certain microbes
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and one of the founders of microbiology. he developed the germ theory of disease and identified the cause of many diseases.
Robert Koch
German physician who was one of the people who studied bacteria.
