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Medical
Electric
Transportation
Communication
Population
100
this reduces pain (and puts people "under") during surgery
What is anesthetic?
100
improved the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
powered trains so trains could replace boats for efficient transportation
What is steam?
100
invented the telephone in 1876
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
people migrated here
What is to the cities?
200
bacteria in the air that causes milk to sour
What is fermentation?
200
powered the electric motor
What is dynamo?
200
improved steel by forcing air through metal to get rid of impurities
What is the Bessemer process?
200
invented the telegraph in 1837
Who is Samuel Morse?
200
the movement to the cities is _________
What is urbanization?
300
vaccines worked because they helped the body build _________
What are antibodies?
300
used before electricity to power machines
What is the steam engine?
300
this person built the first affordable cars
Who is Henry Ford?
300
a device that sends messages as electric pulses
What is the telegraph?
300
one of the first industrial cities, known as the "jewel"
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
400
this person showed the link between microbes and disease
Who is Louis Pasteur?
400
developed the first light bulb in 1860
Who is Swan?
400
flew the first sustained power flight in 1903 and made way for commercial flights
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
400
built a wireless telegraph in 1895
Who is Marconi?
400
because the cities became so crowded, people started to move here
What are the suburbs?
500
numbers of these grew tremendously due to new inventions and innovations in medicine
What are medical professionals, including nurses and doctors?
500
discovered magnetism (electricity connection) in 1831
Who is Michael Faraday?
500
world's longest railroad (in Russia); developed in 1891
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
500
this globalized personal and business communication
What is the telegraph?
500
this first opened in London in 1863, to relieve the crowded streets
What is the subway line?