Unit 6 Seek-A-Word

2. Bolivar - Military and political leader that played a key role in Latin America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire.
3. Edison - American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
5. Faraday - English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis.
8. Comte - French philosopher and founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism.
11. Marconi - Italian inventor known for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission and for his development of a radio telegraph system. He is credited as being the inventor of radio.
12. Pasteur - French chemist and microbiologist known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. He’s remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases.
14. Flaubert - Influential French writer considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.

1. Mendeleyev - Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created his own version of the periodic table of elements.
4. and Orville Wright - American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who invented and built the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on 12/17/1903.
5. Planck - German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize.
6. Dickens - English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the
7. Mendel - Scientist who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics.
9. Meiji Restoration- A chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan. It led to enormous changes in Japan’s political and social structure and was responsible for the emergence of Japan as a modernized nation
10. Graham Bell - Eminent scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
13. Freud - Austrian neurologist who became the founding father of psychoanalysis, or the explanation of human behavior.
15. Morse - American painter turned inventor that contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system. He also co-invented a telegraph code named for him.