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America Land I Love Chapter 15
Chapter Review of Chapter 15 The Age of Industry
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History
8th Grade
03/25/2010

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Alexander Graham Bell
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Invented the telephone in 1876 with the help of Thomas Watson. He provided the ideas.
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Thomas Watson
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Provided the "hands" for Alexander Graham Bell
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Thomas Alva Edison
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The greatest inventor America ever produced. He invented the incandescent light bulb,electric generators,the storage battery,the phonograph,motion picture machines and many others
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George Washington Carver
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Found 118 different ways to use sweet potatoes and over 300 ways to use peanuts. He transformed agricultural practices in the south
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George Eastman
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invented the Kodak camera
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John Roebling
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pioneered the design of suspension bridges
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Christopher Sholes
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produced the first practical commercial typewriter. He came up with the QWERTY system.
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Louis Sullivan
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built the wainwright building which is considered the first mondern american skyscraper
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Elisha Otis
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built the safety elevator and his sons built Otis Brother and Company the largest elevator company in the world
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Andrew Carnegie
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the worlds first great builder of public libraries. his steel company became the largest manufacturer of steel in the world.
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Sir Henry Bessemer
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developed an inexpensive method of turning iron ore into steel
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Edwin L. Drake
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first to drill for oil
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John D Rockefeller
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formed the standard oil company of ohio became the wealthiest man in America
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Lyman Stewart
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started the Union Oil Company of California which became the largest independent oil company on the West Coast
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 Promontory Point, Utah

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Where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific met completing the first trancontinental railroad
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 Wainwright Building
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First modern American Skyscraper
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Bellevue Hospital
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First school of nursing
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John Hopkins Medical School
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Where the idea of extensive medical research began
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Providence Hospital
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The frist interracial hospital in the United States
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entrepreneur
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One who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product
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"The invention factory"
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Where Thamas Alva Edison invented
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Horticulture
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The study and growing of plants
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Carnegie Steel Company
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Largest manufacturer of steel in the world
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Philanthropy
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Giving away of large sums of money to needy individuals and charities
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Drake's Folly
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The first oil well
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