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chp 8 vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |