People
Who is Eli Whitney?
This location was host to the 1851 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations.
What is London? (or: Hyde Park in London)
This printing press, invented in Mainz, used metal movable type to quickly reproduce books and other documents.
What is the Gutenberg Printing Press?
This phrase, coined by the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, argues for the importance of communication media.
What is "the medium is the message"?
This historical period was a time of rapid economic growth, labor disruption, and technical innovation centered in Britain.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This scientific instrument maker worked at the University of Edinburgh in the 1700s.
Who is James Watt?
This country was the home to the first commercial steamboats.
What is the United States?
In a petition, Leeds Woollen Workers resisted the introduction of these textile machines.
What are scribbling machines?
Eli Whitney supported this principle in his New Haven workshop, according to Merritt Roe Smith.
What is the "engineering ideal of efficiency?"
The start of this religious movement is often tied to Martin Luther circulating his 95 Theses.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This American urban planner designed parks, highways, and parkways in New York City in the mid-20th century.
Who is Robert Moses?
What is Manchester?
This typewriter was the first model to use the standard "QWERTY" keyboard layout.
What is the Remington (or Sholes-Glidden) typewriter?
The British Empire used this strategy to turn the tide in the Opium Wars with China.
What is gunboat diplomacy?
A series of organized factory raids, concentrated between 1811 and 1817, were organized by this group.
What are the Luddites?
This artist and inventor patented the first tin paint tube, an invention that helped painters experiment with new styles of nature painting.
Who is John Goffe Rand?
Robert Moses used low bridges to prevent lower-class New Yorkers from visiting this park.
What is Jones Beach State Park?
Designed to help blind students in Stockholm in mind, this typewriter was patented in 1870 and was used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
What is the Malling Hansen Writing Ball?
This branch of natural science is concerned with heat, work, and energy.
What is thermodynamics?
The leaders of this 1917 revolution traced their ideas to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This electrical engineer and policy-maker was the head of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II.
Who is Vannevar Bush?
This country was home to the first movable type system which used fired clay tiles.
What is China?
James Watt based his improved steam engine on this earlier model.
What is the Newcomen engine?
This book, written by Vannevar Bush in 1945, popularized a distinction between "pure" and "applied" science.
What is Science: the Endless Frontier?
By the year 1900, this percentage of secretarial roles were filled by female employees.
What is 95%?