WStudiesChpt12TestReview
World Studies Chapter 12 Test Review
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- Electric Generator
- With this creation, Michael Faraday enabled factories to use electricity as a power source.
- Partnership
- A form of business involving two or more partners who share financial risk and managerial responsibility.
- Entrepreneurs
- People who combine capital, labor and and new inventions to set up industries and business.
- Gottlieb Daimler
- Inventor of the internal combustion gasoline engine.
- Robert Fulton
- Inventor of the first steamboat in 1807.
- Eli Whitney
- Person who was responsible for the introduction of interchangeable parts into factory production.
- Edmund Cartright
- Inventor of the loom that was run by water power.
- Samuel Crompton
- Inventor of the spinning mule.
- Thomas Edison
- Inventor of the incandescent light bulb, phonograph and many other electrical inventions.
- Industrial Revolution
- A time period marked by changes in power from human and animal strength to machine power. It is also a time when the factory system was adopted and people's lives were run by the clock.
- Rocket
- Name of the first steam locomotive.
- Battery
- This was invented by an Italian professor named Alessandro Volta.
- Richard Arkwright
- Inventor of the water frame.
- John Kay
- The creator of the flying shuttle.
- Puddling Furnace
- This invention allowed impurities to be removed from iron ore and production to speed up 15x.
- Depression
- The lowest point in the business cycle when people lose their jobs and businesses typically fail.
- Steam Engine
- This was an invention created by James Watt which provided a source of power.
- Factory System
- This system of production was adopted because it was more efficient and cheaper. Workers left their homes and were under one roof, along with machines.
- Robert Bakewell
- This person was a pioneer in the field of selective animal breeding. He bred animals for certain characteristics.
- Corporations
- Business organizations owned by stockholders who own shares in the companies.
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Person who sent the first wireless radio message.
- Eli Whitney
- Creator of the cotton gin.
- Michael Faraday
- Person who did the research that led to the first electric generator.
- Henry Ford
- Innovator of the moving assembly line to produce model T cars.
- Samuel Morse
- Inventor of the telegraph.
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Inventor of the telephone.
- Agricultural Revolution
- A time period made by the use of new farming technology, higher yields and bigger farms.
- Enclosure Movement
- The fencing in of public lands that was once shared by city-dwellers.
- Labor Unions
- Groups formed by workers to help increase wages and improve working conditions.
- Domestic System
- This system of production is also known as the cottage industry.
- Jethro Tull
- Leader of the agricultural revolution who created the horse drawn plow.
- George Stephenson
- Inventor of the first efficient steam locomotive.
- Urbanization
- The rapid growth of cities.
- Domestic System
- A production system where all the work was done in the home.
- Wilber and Orville Wright
- Performed the first successful motor powered airplane flight.