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industrial revolution
wodek
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11th Grade
04/29/2010

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James Watt
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invented the steam engine
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marie curie
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studied radium and all of it's concepts
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michael faraday
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discovered that magnets could produce electricity
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Hertz
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German Scientists that discovered radio waves
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Marconi
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invented the wireless telegraph/radio
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Daimler and Benz
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first to come up with the automobile engine
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Roentgen
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discovered x-rays
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EdwardJenner
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invented the vacination of small pox injecting cowpox in humans
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Pasteur
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cured hydrophobia/rabies and came up with the process of pasteurization, killing the bacteria in milk by heating it
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Charles Darwin
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wrote the origin of species, sailed on the HMS beagle
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Lister
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destroying bacteria using antiseptic surgery
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social darwinism
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people think they are surperior to others
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19th century three classes in europe
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Elitist- wealthy, middle class- busines people, Urban workers- factory workers
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Monopolies
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held exclusive control over one industry
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Adam Smith
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created the concept of supply and demand
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Thomas Malthus
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theorist that blames poverty on the population because it takes away the food supply
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Charles Dickins
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realist writer that condemed the poor. wrote oliver twist and a christmas carol
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romanticism
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period where artist believed that the people needed to pay attention to feeling
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Beethoven
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composed romantic music
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Realist
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saw the harsh conditions for what they were and showed it through their arts
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Monet
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artist that lead the impressionest era
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van go
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created the starry night and was post impressionist
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socialism
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the major means of production and distribution are owned, managed, and controlled by the government
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Karl Marx
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wrote the communist manifesto and das capital, came up with the class struggle and the value of labor
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Das Capital
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major work started by Marx, researched capitalism and discovered that the system of workers sucks and only benefits the wealthy.
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Proletariat
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the working class according to marx
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value of labor
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idea presented by marx that stated the value of goods are based on the amount of time went into it.
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florence nightingale
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brought nursing to many women
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