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41 Cards in this Set

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Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

1911 tragedy that prompted calls for safer working conditions.

dumbell tenements

apartment building design for housing the urban poor.

Louis-Jaques-Mande Daguerre

Daguerreotype photograghy-process of photography.


One of the fathers of photography.

Jacob Riis/Lewis Hine

Used photography for social reform.


"Muckrakers" journalists and social documentary photography....changing child labor laws in the U.S.

Frederick Winslow Taylor/Taylorism

Father of "Scientific Management"

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth

time and motion studies

Therbligs

basic motions Gilbreths used to encourage efficiency in the workplace.

Mary Parker Follett

"Mother of Modern Management"

Elton Mayo's

Hawthornes Studies

Amelia Bloomer

Womens wear reformer

Gottlieb Daimler/Wilhelm Maybach/Karl Benz

auto pioneers

Henry Ford

Fordism

Fords sociological Department

he had all these standards and rule in order to work for him, such as, keeping your house clean-he would just pop up unannounced.

Levittowns

post world war II suburban housing developments.

Joseph McCoy

established abilene as cattle destination.


"the real" Mccoy.


He made good on his pledge to Texans, that he would ship by railroad and get good price for their stock.

Phillip Armour/Gustavus Swift

Meatpacking and refrigerated rail cars

Uptons Sinclair's novel

"The Jungle"


Muckraking expose.


Exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. .....leading to Pure Food and Drug Act and meat inspection Act

Clarence Birdseye

Frozen food

Frederick McKinley Jones

refrigerated trucks and containers for food shipping.

Willis Carrier

air conditioning

William Perkin

first artificial dye, "Mauveine"

Celluloid

1st partly synthetic plastic material

Bakelite

1st entirely synthetic plastic

Guglielmo Marconi

"Father of the radio"

Lee de Forest

father of the radio

Reginald Fessenden

father of the radio

philo T. Farnsworth

father of television

David Sarnoff and Vladimir Zworykin

Farnsworth's victorious RCA rivals

Kennedy-Nixon debate 1960

demonstrated TV's influence

Montgolfier Brothers

Ballooning pioneers

Ferdinand Graf van Zeppelin

Ridged airships

The Hindenberg

Zeppelin disaster

Orville and Wilber wright

1st controlled, heavier than air flight

"Rosie the Riveter"

female world war II industrial workers

Robert Oppenheimer/Leslie Groves

Headed Manhattan Project

"Fat Man" and "Little Boy"

Dropped on Japan in 1945, inaugurating Atomic Age.

Sputnik

1st Russian satellite

Margaret Sanger

birth control advocate

Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin

Polio vaccines - sabins replaced salks vaccine in 1960s with an oral vaccine.

Alan Turing

The turing test and "The Imitation Game"

Gordan Moore

"Moores Law", predicting geometric expansion of computing power.