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key terms and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a process developed in the 18502 that led to faster, cheaper steel production | Bessemer process |
| a machine perfected by by Samuel F.B Morse in 1832; it uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires | telegraph |
| English scientist; he invented the dynamo- a machine that generated electricity. his invention eventually led to today's electrical generators | Michael Faraday |
| American inventor of over 1000 patents, including the light bulb; he established a power plant that supplied electricity to parts of New York City | Thomas Edison |
| American business leader; he revolutionized factory production through the use of the assembly line and popularized the affordable automobile | Henry Ford |
| American pioneers of aviation ; they went from experiments with kites and gliders to piloting the first successful gas-powered airplane flight | Wilbur and Orville Wright |
| American Artist and inventor; he applied scientists' discoveries of electricity and magnetism to develop the telograph | Samuel Morse |
| American inventor and educator; his interest in electrical and mechanical devises to aid people with hearing impairments led to the development of and patent of the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Italian physicist; he experimented with wireless telegraph and established the communication across the English channel between France and England. | Guglielmo Marconi |
| a process of heating liquids to kill bacteria and prevent fermentation | Pasteurization |
| a drug that reduces pain and in large doses makes the patient unconscious | anesthetic |