HGAP Unit 10 People
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carterhelschien on January 12, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Who memorized plans and brought them to US (Rhode Island) in 1790 | Samuel Slater |
| Who invented the steam governor? | James Watt |
| Who invented the steam engine? | Thomas Newcomen |
| Who invented the process of heating iron to get rid of the impurities? | Henry Bessemer |
| Who invented the steam boat? | Robert Fulton |
| Who invented the locomotive? | George Stephenson |
| Who invented the telegraph? | Samuel Morse |
| Who believed food increased arithmetically; population increases geometrically | Thomas Malthus |
| Who said as population increases, wages remain low | David Ricardo |
| Who believed in greatest happiness for the greatest number of people (humanists) | Jeremy Bentham |
| Who said laissez faire preferable to authoritarian government, but government should intervene to protect civil liberties | John Stuart Mill |
| Who believed industrialization and science would bring a new age; leaders of society should be most intelligent people; parasites (like lawyers) would give way to "doers" (innovators, scientists) | Count Henri de Saint-Simon |
| Who said in a good environment, people cease to act selfishly | Thomas More |
| Who pushed for reform laws (limit child labor, encourage unions); New Lunark (built model village that had homes, school, factory, and made a profit) | Robert Owen |
| Who invented the battery? | Alessandro Volta |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who invented the phonograph (1877; begins idea of popular music); incandescent light bulb (1879); kinetoscope (1888; movie projector) | Thomas Edison |
| Who invented AC power? | Nikola Tesla |
| Who invented the radio? | Gulgielmo Macroni |
| Who invented the power airplane? | Wilbur and Orville Wright |
| Who believed in natural selection (in ecosystem only so many plants and animals to feed on; only those who are suited to the environment will survive (eg Galapagos finches)) | Charles Darwin |
| Who believed in Social darwinism (survival of the fittest (in society and business)) | Herbert Spencer |
| Who believed dominant and recessive genes existed | Gregor Mendel |
| Who believed humans should be selectively bred | Francis Galton |
| Who created smallpox vaccine (beginning of microbe theory? | Edward Jenner |
| Who was a proponent of germ theory (comes up with pasteurization; develops anthrax and rabies vaccines)? | Louis Pasteur |
| Who developed antiseptics? | Joseph Lister |
| Who believed rate of food supply may vary but never reaches its carrying capacity; increase in food production does not equal increase in population growth; increase in population growth equals increase in intensification (stimulates technology in agriculture) | Ester Boserup |
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