Module 3 - Academic Vocab Flashcards

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Edwin L. Drake

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First person to use steam engine to drill for oil

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Bessemer process

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Technique used to make steel from iron

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Thomas Alva Edison

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Inventor of the light bulb

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Lewis H. Latimer

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African American inventor of the carbon filament

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Christopher Sholes

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Inventor of the typewriter

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Inventor of the telephone

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transcontinental railroad

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A railroad that crosses the entire country

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Major figure in the expansion of regional railroads

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George M. Pullman

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Inventor of the sleeping car

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Crédit Mobilier

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Name of company involved in stealing of railroad money