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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. |
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dumbell tenements |
apartment building design for housing the urban poor. |
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Louis-Jaques-Mande Daguerre |
Daguerreotype photograghy-process of photography. One of the fathers of photography. |
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Jacob Riis/Lewis Hine |
Used photography for social reform. "Muckrakers" journalists and social documentary photography....changing child labor laws in the U.S. |
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Frederick Winslow Taylor/Taylorism |
Father of "Scientific Management" |
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Frank and Lillian Gilbreth |
time and motion studies |
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Therbligs |
basic motions Gilbreths used to encourage efficiency in the workplace. |
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Mary Parker Follett |
"Mother of Modern Management" |
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Elton Mayo's |
Hawthornes Studies |
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Amelia Bloomer |
Womens wear reformer |
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Gottlieb Daimler/Wilhelm Maybach/Karl Benz |
auto pioneers |
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Henry Ford |
Fordism |
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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. |
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Levittowns |
post world war II suburban housing developments. |
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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. |
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Phillip Armour/Gustavus Swift |
Meatpacking and refrigerated rail cars |
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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 |
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Clarence Birdseye |
Frozen food |
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Frederick McKinley Jones |
refrigerated trucks and containers for food shipping. |
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Willis Carrier |
air conditioning |
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William Perkin |
first artificial dye, "Mauveine" |
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Celluloid |
1st partly synthetic plastic material |
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Bakelite |
1st entirely synthetic plastic |
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Guglielmo Marconi |
"Father of the radio" |
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Lee de Forest |
father of the radio |
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Reginald Fessenden |
father of the radio |
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philo T. Farnsworth |
father of television |
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David Sarnoff and Vladimir Zworykin |
Farnsworth's victorious RCA rivals |
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Kennedy-Nixon debate 1960 |
demonstrated TV's influence |
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Montgolfier Brothers |
Ballooning pioneers |
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Ferdinand Graf van Zeppelin |
Ridged airships |
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The Hindenberg |
Zeppelin disaster |
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Orville and Wilber wright |
1st controlled, heavier than air flight |
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"Rosie the Riveter" |
female world war II industrial workers |
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Robert Oppenheimer/Leslie Groves |
Headed Manhattan Project |
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"Fat Man" and "Little Boy" |
Dropped on Japan in 1945, inaugurating Atomic Age. |
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Sputnik |
1st Russian satellite |
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Margaret Sanger |
birth control advocate |
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Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin |
Polio vaccines - sabins replaced salks vaccine in 1960s with an oral vaccine. |
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Alan Turing |
The turing test and "The Imitation Game" |
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Gordan Moore |
"Moores Law", predicting geometric expansion of computing power. |