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| Terms | Definition |
|---|---|
| Micheal Faraday | discovered the connection between magnetism and electricity |
| Thomas Edison | developed the first usable and practical lightbulb in 1879 |
| Bessemer process | involved forcing air through molten metal to burn out carbon and other impurities that make metal brittle |
| Henry Ford | wanted to change that cars were expensive |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | succeeded in flying a powered airplane in substained flight |
| telegraph | a machine that sent messages instantly over wires |
| Samuel Morse | credited with inventing the telelgraph in 1837 |
| Guelielmo Marconi | discoveries to build a wire-nication |
| Charles Darwin | young geologist |
| Marie and Pierre Curie | discovered polonium and radium |
| radioactivity | elements released energy when there break down |
| Albert Einstein | revolutionized physics |
| paterurization | kill bacteria and became prevented fermentation |
| anesthtic | a drug that reduces pain and in large doses make the patient unconscious |
| Ivan Pavlov | used dogs as research subjects to prove that animal behavior |
| Sigmund Freud | argued that an unconscious part of the mind contains thoughts of which one is unaware |
| urbanization | the growth in the proportion of people living in towns and cities |
| realism | developed in reaction to romanticsim |
| Romanticism | a literary and artistic developement of the early 1800s |
| William Wordsworth | expressed the romantic spirit in his definition of poetry |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | who also celebrated human freedom in his work |
| impressionism | a movement that came |