2nd Industrial Revolution (Part I)

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Across
  1. 1. American inventor famous for the light bulb and his efforts to expand the use of direct current electricity
  2. 4. An american railroad that ran 1,776 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific , completed in 1869
  3. 7. English chemist who created the first simple electric motor and first dynamo; all modern electrical generators and transformers are based off of his ideas
  4. 10. identical components that could be used in place of one another
  5. 12. The inventor of the telegraph and morse code
  6. 14. A railroad, completed in 1904, running through Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast spanning over 6,000 miles
  7. 15. obtained the first patent for the telephone in 1876
  8. 16. German engineer who invented the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine in 1861
  9. 18. Italian immigrant in New york who reportedly invented a telephone like device by 1856, well ahead of Alexander Graham Bell, but his patent was rejected
  10. 19. a group of corporations who join forces in an effort to fix prices, set production quotas, or control markets
  11. 21. developed a new process for making steel cheaper in 1856
  12. 22. fractional shares of ownership in a company sold to investors
  13. 23. French chemist who showed the link between microbes and disease by 1870; he also developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax
Down
  1. 2. a machine that generates electricity
  2. 3. American automobile manufacturer who began making cars cheaper using the assembly line and interchangeable parts
  3. 5. British army nurse who insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals and promoted the idea that "The first requirement in a hospital, is that it should do no harm to the sick."
  4. 6. business that is owned my many investors who have purchased stock
  5. 8. bicycle makers who designed and flew the first airplane in North Carolina, 1903
  6. 9. English surgeon who discovered how antiseptics prevented infection and insisted that surgeons sterilize their instruments and wash their hands before operating
  7. 11. the process of manufacturing a product on a moving platform or belt, where workers specialize in adding specific parts as it moves along in the process
  8. 13. Italian who invented and experimented with radio in the 1890s and early 1900s allowing wireless communication across the Atlantic
  9. 17. developed by Samuel Morse by 1844, the telegraph could send coded messages long distances over wires using electricity
  10. 20. Swedish chemist who invented dynamite to be used for construction but later used for warfare
  11. 21. German engineer who obtained the first patent for an automobile which had three wheels in 1886