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| Internal combustion engine | Small, light and efficient engine that powers automobiles |
| Thomas Edison | Patented more than 1000 inventions, including the light bulb and phonograph |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Invented first radio in 1895 |
| Henry Ford | Designed the assembly line to mass produce cars at a price that made them affordable to the middle class |
| Assembly line | A line of workers who each put a single piece on unfinished cars as they passed on a moving belt |
| Kitty Hawk, NC | Location of first flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright |
| Mass culture | The appeal of art, writing, music and other forms of entertainment to a much larger audience (not just the wealthy) |
| Causes of the rise of mass culture | 1) Spread of public education increased literacy 2) Improvements in communication 3) New inventions (phonograph) 4) More time due to shortened working day |
| Vaudeville | Musical variety shows. Traveled from town to town to perform. |
| What was one of the results of an increased interest in sports? | The revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 |
| Pasteurization | The process of heating liquids in order to kill bacteria |
| Louis Pasteur | Developed the germ theory of disease |
| Joseph Lister | Discovered that surgical patients were dying from infections caused by bacteria; began to sterilize instruments |
| Charles Darwin | Developed theory of evolution; published The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
| Special Creation | Each kind of plant or animal had been created by God at the beginning of the world and had remained that way since then |
| Evolution | The idea that all forms of lie evolved from earlier living forms |
| Natural Selection | Populations tend to grow faster than the food supply and so must compete for food; The members of a species that survive are those that are fittest, or best adapted to their environment |
| Mendeleev | Arranged the elements into a chart known as the Periodic Table |
| Marie & Pierre Curie | Discovered radioactivity, a new powerful form of energy |
| Rutherford | Suggested that atoms were made up of smaller particles, a nucleus and electrons |
| Psychology | The study of the human mind and behavior |
