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19th Century Flash Cards
Industrial Revolution, Science Progression
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History
10th Grade
02/17/2011

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Dalton
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Outlined method for "weighing atoms"
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Awkwright
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Improved the water frame
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Goodyear
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Invented a process to cure rubber
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Volta
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Created a battery
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Smith
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Wrote "A Wealth of Nations" and suported free enterprise
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Dickens
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Wrote "Dombey and Son" and "Hard Times"
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Virchow
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showed disease comes from living organisms and that every new cell must come from some older cell.
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Jenner
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Made a vaccine for smallpox
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Planck
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Founder of quantum theory
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Freud
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Hypnotized mentally disturbed patients and wrote "The General Introduction to Psychoanalysis"
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Townshend
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Developed crop rotation
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Mendeleyev
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developed the first workable classification of the elements
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Einstein
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discovered e=mc^2
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Pasteur
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discovered bacteria, proved spontaneous generation false, developed pasteurization to kill bacteria, fought rabies, used anthrax to figure out vaccines
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Pavlov
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Rings bell, dogs drool
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Cartwright
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invented the water powered loom
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McAdam
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created layered roads
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Malthus
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wrote "an essay on the principle of population"
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Bentham
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wrote "An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation" and advocated reform in prisons, education, and legislation
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Lamarck
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thought that evolution was due to things changing in response to their environment
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Tull
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invented the seed planter and horse-drawn hoe
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Bessemer
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developed a cheap and effective way of making steel
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Fulton
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invented the steamboat
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Ricardo
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wrote "Principles of political economy and taxation" and discussed the iron law of wages
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Engels
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fathered communist theory alongside Karl Marx
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Mendel
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Researched genetics with peas in a monestary
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Comte
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french philosopher who argued that the study of society should follow scientific methods by using facts and avoid interpretations
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Taylor
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wrote "primitive Culture"
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The Curies
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Chemists who worked with radioactivity
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Whitney
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invented the cotton gin
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Darwin
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wrote "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"
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Mill
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believed in laissez-fair economics and that the government should help the less fortunate
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Watt
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patented the modern steam engine
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Rutherford
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discovered radioactive half-lives
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Rutherford
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discovered radioactive half-lives
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