The Gilded Age
Scientific Before & After
Chicago Architecture
400
The cross-country one of these was finished in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, marking the beginning of an era of connected travel lines
What is a railroad?
400
A phone data provider engages in a fundamental biological process to produce ATP for animals
What is Consumer Cellular respiration?
400
The Sears Tower (or Willis Tower, or the tower with no real name if you really want to be technical) was once the world's tallest building and is actually taller than the One World Trade Center if you count the antennae. The tower's design with nine compartments was modeled around a pack of these objects, things you don't want to interact with as a child or teen
What are cigarettes?
800
The economy at the time can be described by this hyphenated French term, much to the dismay to anyone who wasn't a corporate leader
What is laissez-faire?
800
What it's called when an electron escapes from its ground state into a point in a dimension labeled 23:59:60
What is a quantum leap second?
1200
In the aftermath of this unprecedently huge economic crash, large union-hosted events such as the Pullman Strike ensued
What is the Panic of 1893?
1200
Andrew Carnegie's two dream business-building processes torture students who have to choose their u and v in a mathematical process
What is horizontal and vertical integration by parts?
1600
In 1896, this candidate that shared his first name with the winner had a cross of gold while campaigning
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
1600
A body of water created by flash floods inspires a style of literature developed by modernist writers
What is an ephemeral stream of consciousness?
2000
In this work, Upton Sinclair criticizes the meatpacking industry, putting big cities in danger
What is The Jungle?
2000
Areas of balanced forces for an object from an astronomical perspective where the second derivative of that object's position changes in sign
What are Lagrange points of inflection?