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history test2 fall11
studying for test 2 for Technology in Society history class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inventor of the telegraph? | Samuel Morris |
| Inventor of the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who invented photo rolled film? | George Eastmen |
| Who invented the lightbulb? | Thomas Edison, and motion picture films |
| Who came up with the Invention factory? | Thomas Edison (research and development) |
| Steel mill 'Homestead steel mill' | Andrew Carnegie in partnership with clay fricks. |
| National Labor relations Act | Help those workers who are on strike, maintain getting replacement workers out Came about after a strike at the carnegie and fricks steel mill |
| Name the three essential occupations for the progression of technology | Inventor, entrepreneurs, engineers |
| Years of the golden age? | 1870-1920 |
| Who invented the alternating current motor? | Nickela Tesla |
| Who invented the gyrostabilizer? | Elmer Sperry |
| Who invented vulcanized rubber? | Goodyear |
| Reasons the golden age came about? | No income tax, protective tariff, government encouraged development, no minimum wage laws, none to few regulations |
| No income tax provided? | Maintaining capital to help increase production and development of the industry/company |
| Protective Tariff provided? | Kept out foreign competition |
| How did government encourage development? | Land grants, subsidies |
| Who made engineering a profession? | John Garvis "civil engineering" |
| First school to teach engineering? | West point, Military school |
| Other schools that began teaching engineering? | Harvard and Renslear Polytechic |
| Why did more schools began offering Engineering as a course of study? | Government offered subsidies for agriculture and mechanical skills |
| Ethicial questions for engineers? | To whom does the engineer owe loyalty: people, employer, or the inventor? What should his primary task be: increase efficiency, or think of ethical issues? Where does engineering end and science begin? |
| Why is there movement of workers from rural to urban areas? | Mechanization of processes previously required of multiple people to achieve. Workers more needed in cities now. |
| As regulation increases, | productivity decreases. |
| Railroads achieved three major things | Time zones, united the country economically, and encouraged investment banks and stock exchanges |
| First US oil well drilled | Titas, Pennsylvania in 1859 |
| Specialized in oil refinery process | JD Rockefeller |
| Electric system | Faraday |
| Edison's company becomes? | General Electric |
| Electric Steel Car | Sprague |
| 1st city with electric street car system | anderson |
| Minneapolis was a major producer of | flour milling |
| New york city was a major producer of | premade clothing |
| Rochester was a major producer of | shoe manufacturing |
| Immigration act of 1924 | hoped to limit the number of immigrants entering US |
| Hybrid corn, increased corn yields | Henry wallace |
| Deskilling | Taking tasks that once required high skills and turning them into low skill automatic tasks |
| Luddism | resistance to new technologies |
| henry ford principle | pay workers enough that they can afford the product they produce |
| Blood pressure cuff showed | Even though doctors resisted technologies, it became desired by patients |
| A card with their record of income and the income they may spend? | Bellamy |
| Should taxes be less for _____ or _____ | consumers or producers |
| Steam engine that started american industrialization? | James watt |
| Phase 1 of the US desire for technology | Protech, aids in control of nature |
| Phase 2 of the US desire for technology | anti tech, romantic era |
| phase 3 of the US desire for technology | protech, herbert hoover 'the great engineer' |
| Break everything down and make it as efficient as possible, Industrial engineering | Fredrick taylor |
| Industrial engineering | produce more so people can have more, time efficiency studies |
| what do you need to have improved technology? | access to technology, means of maintenance, affordability, understood use |
| The kinds of economies | agriculture, manufacturing, specialized services |
| value added | add value to goods as you create technologies, leads to higher standard of living |
| by 1920, fewer than______ of the population in farming due to labor being replaced by machines | half |
| what political leaders chose to subsidize roads? | Jefferson and gallatin |
| ways attempted to unify the us? | canals, toll roads |
| steam power river boats | robert fulton |
| cars known for suspension systems and good brakes | henry ford cars |
| Eisenhower road act | interstate highways, paved roads |
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