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chp 8 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Michael Faraday | invented dynamo, a machine that generated electricity |
| Thomas Edison | invented the lightbulb |
| Bessemer Process | a process that led to faster and cheaper steel production |
| Henry Ford | he revolutionized factory production through the use of the assembly line and popularized the affordable autombile |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | first successful gas powered airplane flight |
| Telegraph | Samuel F.B Morse it uses pulse to send messages across long distance |
| Samuel Morse | he applies scientist discoveries at electricity and magnetism to develop the telegraph |
| Alexander Graham Bell | develop and patent of the telephone |
| Guglielmo Marconi | established communication across the English channel between France and England |
| Charles Darwin | purposed theory of evolution through natural selection |
| Marie and Pierre Curie | discovered radium and polonium |
| Radioactivity | a process in which atoms of certain elements constantly break down and release energy |
| Albert Einstein | he developed the theory of relativity among his many scientific theories |
| Louis Pasteur | experiments with bacteria disproved the thoery of spontaneous generation. developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies |
| Pasteurization | process of heating liquids to kill bacteria |
| anesthetic | a drug that inhibits pain during surgery |
| Ivan Pavolov | dogs and condition reflex |
| Sigmund Freud | believed that complexes of repressed and forgotten impressions underlines all abnormal mental states |