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100

Invented the steel plow

Who is John Deere?

100

Invented the telephone

Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

100

Proposed the modern atomic theory

Who is John Dalton?

100

Total output of goods and services

What is the Gross National Product?

100

Andrew Carnegie dominated this industry

What is the steel industry?

200

Developed the incandescent lightbulb

Who is Thomas Edison?

200

Invented the spinning jenny

Who is James Hargreaves?

200

Formulated the laws of thermodynamics

Who is Lord Kelvin?
200

Wages compared to cost of living

What is real wages?

200

Richest American of all time

Who is John D. Rockefeller?

300

Invented the seed drill

Who is Jethro Tull?

300

Invented the steam engine

Who is James Watt?

300

Researched radioactivity and discovered polonium and radium

Who are Pierre and Marie Curie?

300

Most important factor of growing an economy

What is full mastery of the food supply?

300

Wrote the book Wealth of Nations

Who is Adam Smith?

400

Invented the miner's safety lamp

Who is Sir Humphrey Davis?

400

Created the first practical steamship

Who is Robert Fulton?

400

Introduced the germ theory of disease

Who is Louis Pasteur?

400

System in which work happens in small shops

What is the domestic system?

400

Used as the inspiration for Uncle Pennybags

Who is JP Morgan?

500

Invented the internal combustion engine

Who is Gottlieb Daimler?

500

Perfected the steel-making process

Who is Henry Bessemer?

500

Discovered that electromagnetic energy travels as a wave

Who is James Clark Maxwell?

500

Two parts of the Protestant work ethic

What are:

  1. God expects all men to work
  2. Work is a noble duty to be performed for God
500

Two of the four benefits of big business

What are:

  1. Stimulation of industry
  2. Creation of jobs
  3. Production of commodities
  4. Philanthropy

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