Vocab
People
100

A very tall building

skyscraper

100

A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer.

Louis Pasteur

200

to store something so it can be used later

preserve

200

A scientist who invented a way to preserve blood and started the American Red Cross Blood program

Charles Drew

300

a liquid made from the dead or weakened germs of a disease

vaccine

300
He invented the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

400

small room that can be raised or lowered to carry people and things from one floor to another in a building

elevator

400

In 1884, he built the first skyscraper in Chicago that was 10 stories high

William LeBaron Jenney

500

something that has been made for the first time

invention

500

He invented brakes for the elevators

Elisha Otis

600

known as the "home of the skyscraper"

Chicago

600

He was an American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb

Thomas Edison

700

A process of heating food to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria

pasteurization

700

He built a steel mill empire: US STEEL

Andrew Carnegie