What Did they Discover?
He Discovered how diseases spread.
Who is: John Snow?
Who invented the stethoscope?
Who is:Rene' Laennec
How are iron and steel different?
What is: Iron is made directly from iron ore while steel is made from iron and is stronger.
HOw does the process of vaccination work?
What is: If a person gets a mild disease, the person may not get a related, more serious disease.
Where and when did the Industrial Revolution begin?
What is: In Great Britain Around the Mid 18th century around 1760?
He Discovered a way to preserve food.
Who is: Nicholas Appert?
Who invented the Spinning Jenny?
Who is: James Hargreaves?
What was the first industrial use for a steam pump?
What is it was used to pump water from mines.
How did preserving fruits and vegetables improve people's health?
What is: It improved their diets by allowing them to eat fruits and vegetbale at times in which they could not be grown fresh?
Where was Samuel Slater's mill located?
He Discovered a way to prevent diseases.
Who is: Edward Jenner?
Who invented the improvement on the steam engine?
Who is: James Watt
HOw did James Watt make the steam engine more practical?
What is: He made it so it used much less fuel?
Why was a map so important in early efforts to fight Cholera in London?
What is The map showed that all infected people used one water pump and indicated a way to fight the disease.
Who were the Lowell Girls?
What is: The Lowell Girls were young, rural New England women (typically 15-30) who worked in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts during America's early Industrial Revolution,
He discovered how to kill pain during surgery.
Who is: Horace Wells?
Who made the first photographic image?
Who is: Joseph-Nicephore Nepce?
How were railways powered before steam engines?
What is Horses pulled cars along a track?
What two areas needed to be improved before surgery could be used regularly?
What is: There needed to be painkillers and better way to prevent infection.
How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery in the South?
What is: The cotton gin allowed owners to make huge profits by using more enslaved workers, so slavery increased?
He discovered how to pasturized milk.
Who is: Louis Pasteur?
Who built the first iron bridge?
Who is: John Wilkinson?
What developments in the Industrial Revolution helped spur settlements in the Midwest and West of the U.S.?
What is: The reaper allowed people to farm in the Midwest and railroads allowed quicker travel over long distances?
How did the INdustrial Revolution create unhealthy living conditions?
What is: Cities grew so fast that there wasn't enough good housing or public systems for waste or clean water
How were factory workers who were women and children treated differently than men?
What is: Women and children were paid less than the men?