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- events are most relevant to the present time and scenario. - time frame of 1500 and 1800. - follows the late middle ages period. |
Modern Times |
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a french biologist, microbiologist and chemist who invented pasteurization. |
Louis Pasteur |
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- process of heating dairy products to kill the harmful bacteria thag allows them to spoil faster. - invented on 1864. |
Pasteurization |
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established in 1853; to transform crude oil into useful products such as liquefies petroleum gas, gasoline or petrol, kerosine, jet fuel, diesel oil and fuel oils. |
Petroleum Refinery |
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an american inventor and businessman who invented petroleum refinery which tranforms crude oil to lamp oil. |
Samuel Kier |
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an american inventor, scientist, and engineer who co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). |
Alexander Graham Bell |
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french mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian who invented calculator. |
Blaise Pascual |
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a clever device driven by gears and capable of performing mechanical addition and subtraction which was invented in 1642. |
Calculator |
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- an english scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. - he invented electric dynamo. |
Michael Faraday |
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an electric generator that creates direct current using the commutator which was invented in 1831. |
Electric Dynamo |
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american inventor and businessman who developed many devices in fields such as electric power generator, mass communication, sound recording, motion pictures and most especially light bulb. |
Thomas Edison |
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also known as incandescent lamp or light, an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light which was invented in 1879. |
Light Bulb |
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a noble german forest official who invented the Laufmaschine. |
Baron Karl Von Drais |
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a vehicle that is composed of two wheels held in a frame one behind the other, propelled by pedals and steered with handlebars attached to the font wheel which was invented on 1817. |
Bicycle |
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an american inventor, salesman, and janitor who invented the first commercial vacuum. |
James Murray Spangler |
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a device that causes suction in order to remove debris from floors, upholstery, draperies, and other surfaces which was invented in 1908. |
Vacuum |
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english polymath, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who invented computer. |
Charles Babbage |
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an electronic device for storing and processing data, typically binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable form. |
Computer |
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american computer programmer who implemented the first electronic mail program. |
Ray Tomlinson |
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messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network. |
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