History of Engineers Midterm 1
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What did Granville T Woods do?
made patents for train telegraphy
What did Jan Ernst Matzeliger do?
Create a machine to automate shoe stiching
What did Elijah McCoy do?
developed train lubricating systems
What did Hedy Lamarr do?
radio controled torpedos
What did Sarah Breedlove aka Madam CJ walker do?
create womens beuty products, first self made female millionaire
JP Morgan
richest and mostpwerful investment banker
When was the second industrial revolution
1870 to 1915
when did edison invent the light bulb
1879
Where was Edison's first lighting system installed?
New York City
What had the slogan "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms"?
1933 Chicago Fair
What book promoted the linear model?
Vannevar Bush, Science the Endless Frontier
What was the name of the government study designed to assess the contribution of basic science to invention?
Project Hindsight
Project Hindsight showed what?
showed that basic research wasn’t the driving factor for inovaation
What kind of innovation do industial research labs specialize in
conservative
When Bell Labs described the interdisciplinary nature of the work, they referred to the staff not as chemists, engineers, or physicists, but as:
Members of the technical staff of Bell labs
When were industrial research laboratories take rise?
Early 20th century (1900s)
Industrial research labs are linked to what?
rising grwoth of corporations
Edison's second wife was the daughter of:
an inventor
What Edison invention was a major financial failure?
Iron Ore Seporator
What is the study of history
change over time
What two dates have historians recently debated are the key to understanding America's origins?
1619 and 1776
1619 project
enslavment has led to a pattern of racial injustice
1776 project
decralation of independents, america will be a new place of freedom
About how many Americans were farmers in 1800?
About 90%
What is Reblicanism?
(Thomas Jefferson) favored weak central goverment
What is Strong State?
(Alexander Hamilton) favored a strong central state
What was the most common view of the "American Dream" around 1800?
Owning one’s house and farm
Cotton represented what percentage of US exports in 1860
A little more than half
when did columbus discover the americas
1492
when was the Erie Canal Constructed?
1815-1825
what was the biggest export of america
cotton
Who was the main employer of engineers in France?
French State
What social status did French engineers largely come from?
Low nobbility
Who developed the steam engine with little formal training?
Thomas Newcomen
About what percentage of American engineers received training in higher education around 1830?
About 30%
When did france develop the corps of engineering
1676
British engineering was
know how to make things work
What social status did British engineers largely come from?
working class
When does congress assgin the Corps of Artillerist and Engineering to Westpoint?
1794
What state did the Erie Canal run through?
New york
What was a nickname for the Erie Canal
Clintons Ditch
Who came from Britain to help build American canals?
William Weston
how long was the erie canal
363
Who does New York State Appoint to build the canal
three judges and a school teacher
Who is Benjamin Wright
cheif engineer of the erie canal
Who invented hydraulic cement?
Canvass White
When was the Erie Canal Constructed
1817 to 1825
Who benefited LEAST from the American screw design by Sellers?
Skilled Screwmakers
Which group was a beneficiary of the Erie Canal?
Residents of New York
What American novel described Erie canal boatmen as "picturesquely wicked"?
Moby dick
what was the american screw angle
60 degrees
About how many people lived in the United States in 1900?
75 million
Who helped create the phrase "the Gilded Age" as co-author of a book?
Mark Twain
What happened ot the price of cotton after the Civil War
It decreased
When did the civil war occur
1861 - 1865
what is the morrill Land grant act
(1862) provided fedral land to states to be sold for universites
when was the gilded age
1865-1895
when was the progressive era
1995 to 1918
What metal did the Anaconda mine in Montana produce?
copper
For engineering, what characteristic of a profession has been MOST CHALLENGING to obtain?
Autonomy
For the ASCE, what was the highest mark of an engineer?
Ability to design
Which engineering society advocated the MOST business-friendly policies?
AIME
What engineering tradition did West Point draw on most heavily?
French
What project did Emily Roebling work on?
Brooklyn Bridge
Who did Benjamin Bannaker correspond with?
Thomae Jefferson
Who debated technical versus practical engineering education?
Ashbel Welch and william burr