Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
The movement that used experimentation and observation to explain nature.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
The invention that replaced human and animal labor with mechanical power.
What is the steam engine?
Early factories relied heavily on this fossil fuel.
What is coal?
Samuel Morse’s invention for sending long-distance messages.
What is the telegraph?
The theory that connected disease to microorganisms.
What is germ theory?
Thinkers like Locke and Voltaire promoted rights and reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
The period when machine production replaced handmade goods.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The two main early industrial metals.
What are iron and steel?
Early wireless communication technology.
What is the radio?
Introducing weakened pathogens to prevent disease.
What is vaccination?
He developed a major theory about species changing over time.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The system of producing goods in large centralized buildings.
What is factory production?
Two new energy sources introduced in the late 1800s.
What are electricity and petroleum?
The steam-powered vessel that transformed water travel.
What is the steamboat?
Improved safety in this area reduced maternal death rates.
What is childbirth?
Geological evidence supporting evolution.
What is the fossil record?
The phase that introduced steel, electricity, and chemicals.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
The process of heating natural rubber to make it more durable.
What is vulcanization?
The machine that allowed humans to fly.
What is the airplane?
Diseases that killed Europeans in Africa and Asia before quinine.
What are tropical diseases?
A belief that God created the universe but does not intervene in it.
What is deism?
The method that made steel cheaper and stronger.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The engine that burns fuel inside its cylinders.
What is the internal combustion engine?
The mass-produced vehicle that revolutionized personal travel.
What is the automobile?
Falling rates of this indicated better health for babies.
What is infant mortality?