Industrial Revolution - Important People
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Created by:
kaileehaong on March 20, 2011
Subjects:
history, industrial revolution, ap euro
Description:
Significant people and their discoveries during the Industrial Revolution.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Trevithick | First steam locomotive (1800s) |
| Daimler | Gas-powered engine (1886) |
| Diesel | Oil burning engine (1892) |
| Ford | Moving assembly line for automobiles (1913) |
| Zeppelin | Dirigible balloon (1900) |
| Wright Brothers | Self-propelled airplane (1903) |
| Goodyear | Vulcanization of rubber |
| Edward Jenner | Vaccine for smallpox (1776) |
| Louis Pasteur | Pasteurization (1867) |
| Antoine Lavoisier | Isolated/named oxygen and nitrogen (1700s) |
| Wilhelm Roentgen | X-Rays (1895) |
| Marie Curie | Found radium and other radioactive substances |
| Max Planck | Energy is released in short bursts or quanta (1911) |
| Niels Bohr | Electrons spin around the nucleus in orbits (1913) |
| Albert Einstein | Theory of Relativity (1905) |
| Alfred Nobel | Developed dynamite/Nobel Peace Prize |
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