World History: Ch 26 Section 4
What was the price of a Model T?
$850 in 1908, then dropped to less than $300.
When did the International Olympic Games begin?
1896
How long did it take for the assembly line to make a Model T?
2 hours
How long did the first flight last?
59 seconds
What happened after Lister began using antiseptics for surgery?
85% of patients survived
What new types of energy were being used?
Gasoline and Electricity
Who began the work in genetics?
Gregor Mendel
Who invented the radio?
Guglielmo Marconi
Why were Ford's cars affordable?
He used standardized, interchangeable parts, and used the assembly line.
Who made the first affordable cars?
Henry Ford
Who believed that human actions were unconscious and could be changed by training?
Ivan Pavlov
When and where was the first flight?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
Who began using antiseptics during surgery?
Lister
Who developed the germ theory of disease?
Louis Pasteur
Who discovered 2 missing elements that were radioactive?
Marie and Pierre Curie
What did Darwin write about?
Natural Selection
What new social science was beginning during this time?
Psychology
Who believed that the unconscious mind drives how people think and act?
Sigmund Freud
What inventions were the result of the Industrial Revolution?
Spinning Jenny and Steam Engine
What did Marie Curie win?
The Nobel Prize for the discovery of radium and polonium.
Who made the first gasoline powered flying machine?
The Wright Brothers from Dayton, Ohio.
What is Mass Culture?
The appeal of art, writing, music, and other forms of entertainment to a larger audience.
What were the International Olympic Games?
A revival of the ancient Greek Games of holding an athletic competition every 4 years.
What emerged in the late 1800's?
A surge in scientific discovery
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What was John Dalton's theory?
All matter is made up of atoms.
Where did the first modern Olympics take place?
Athens, Greece
Why did the first modern Olympics take place in Athens?
Because that is where the games had originated.
Describe the earliest motion pictures.
Black and white, lasted less than a minute.
When were the first feature films produced?
By the early 1900's.
Who challenged the creation theory?
Charles Darwin
Who organized elements into the Periodic Table?
Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist
How did Mendeleev organize elements in the periodic table?
In order of weight.
Why was the radio important?
It sent messages through the air without wires.
What did the theories of Freud and Pavlov challenge?
The fundamental idea of the Enlightenment: that reason was supreme.
What is Psychology?
The study of the mind and behavior
What is Darwin's idea of change through natural selection called?
Theory of Evolution
What was wrong with the cars made by Germans in the 1880's?
They weren't affordable
Who patented more than 1,000 inventions, including the light bulb and phonograph?
Thomas Edison
What is natural selection?
Those members of a species who are the fittest will survive.
What types of leisure activities were in demand?
music halls, vaudeville music variety shows, and movies