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key terms and people

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a process developed in the 18502 that led to faster, cheaper steel production   Bessemer process  
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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  
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English scientist; he invented the dynamo- a machine that generated electricity. his invention eventually led to today's electrical generators   Michael Faraday  
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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  
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American business leader; he revolutionized factory production through the use of the assembly line and popularized the affordable automobile   Henry Ford  
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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  
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American Artist and inventor; he applied scientists' discoveries of electricity and magnetism to develop the telograph   Samuel Morse  
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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  
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Italian physicist; he experimented with wireless telegraph and established the communication across the English channel between France and England.   Guglielmo Marconi  
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a process of heating liquids to kill bacteria and prevent fermentation   Pasteurization  
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a drug that reduces pain and in large doses makes the patient unconscious   anesthetic  
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