Concepts
Type of farming where one grows only enough food for one's family.
Subsistence Farming
Inventor of the cotton gin.
Whitney
John Deere
Developed the germ theory of disease.
Pasteur
Discoverers of radium and polonium.
Curies
Most critical material factor in the advancement of a society.
Agricultural mastery
Developed a practical, coal-burning steam engine.
Watts
His reaper could harvest six times more land than could be harvested by hand.
McCormick
Made use of antiseptics to fight germs after surgery.
Lister
Considered by some to be the greatest inventor of human history.
Edison
Another name for the Age of Industry
Industrial Revolution
He developed the steamboat.
A machine that included both a reaper and thresher into one machine was called this.
Combine
This physician developed the first vaccine.
Jenner
He developed atomic theory and atomic weights.
Dalton
Type of system where prices, production, and distribution of goods are determined in a free market.
Capitalism
Responsible for the gasoline powered internal combustion engine.
Daimler
Developed the seed-drill.
Tull
His work with human anatomy earned him the nickname of the "Father of Human Anatomy".
Vesalius
This English scientist developed an absolute temperature scale.
Lord Kelvin
According to the 5 stages of Civilization Development, what is the final step to a civilization's development?
Writing system or Historical Preservation
His diesel engine was powerful enough for larger vehicles, locomotives, and even ships.
Rudolf Diesel
Better known for his economic ideas on free enterprise, he noted that the cultivation of the land MUST be prior to the increase of the town.
Adam Smith
His work with blood circulation and determining the heart is the source of blood earned him fame.
William Harvey
He discovered X-rays.
Wilhelm Roentgen