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| British engineer; developed a new process for making steel from iron |
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| English chemist; created the first simple electric motor |
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| American inventor; made first electric light bulb |
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| designed and flew a flimsy airplane at Kitt Hawk, NC |
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| Italian; invented the radio |
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| first scientist to show a link between microbes and disease; developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax |
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| German doctor who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis |
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| nurse; insisted on better hygiene in hospitals |
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| English surgeon; discovered how antiseptics prevented infection thus reducing the numbers of deaths from infection |
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| argued against slavery; later organized a movement for women's rights |
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| African AMerican suffragist; claimed "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mudpuddles, or gives me any best place? And ain't I a women?" |
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| developed the modern atomic theory; he shoed that each element had its own kind of atom |
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| published "On the Origin of Species"; used the theory of natural selecton to explain the long, slow process of evolution |
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| William Blake & William Wordsworth |
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| were a part of the cultural movement called romanticism which shaped Western literature and arts |
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| a British romantic writer who became a legend when he fought with Greek forces |
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| recreated France's past in "The Three Musketeers" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" |
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| German composer who combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound; wrote symphonies; greatest composer of his day |
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| French realist artist; wanted to see what he drew. |
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| Frenchman who improved photography |
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| artist; brushed strokes of color side by side without any blending |
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| painter; experimented with sharp brush lines and bright colors |
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| English novelist; portrayed the lives of slum dwellers and factory workers, including children |
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