https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol Important figures from the module 7 time period en-us 2017-02-14 01:04:07 UTC 2017-02-14 02:20:23 UTC hello@padlet.com mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153602283 A British philosopher who believed that society progresses through competition and advocated Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. This brought about his coined term when referring to society, "social darwinism." He also believed that protecting the weak results in human kind losing.]]> 2017-02-14 01:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153602283 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153602732 A German physician and pioneering microbiologist. He is credited as being the founder of modern bacteriology and known for identifying the specific causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, and for giving experimental support for the concept of infectious diseases. He made key discoveries in public health and received a Nobel Prize in 1905.]]> 2017-02-14 01:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153602732 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153603297 Sir Edwin Chadwick was an English social reformer who is remembered for his work to reform Poor Laws and to improve sanitation and public health. He used his position in the Queen Victoria Era to persuade the government to invest in public health ventures. He is now credited as being Britain's premier pioneer in public health reform.]]> 2017-02-14 01:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153603297 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153604004 He was a Scottish scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. This was a huge technological advancement and allowed for people to communicate more easily over long distances. He also did groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, and aeronautics.]]> 2017-02-14 01:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153604004 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153604445 He was an American painter and inventor. Originally, he established himself as a portrait painter, but then in his middle ages, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was also the co-inventor of Morse code.]]> 2017-02-14 01:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153604445 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153606638 He was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved upon Newcomen's 1712 steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781. This became fundamental to the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and around  the rest of the world.]]> 2017-02-14 01:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153606638 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153608383 He was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the word that used steam locomotives. These were the Liverpool and Manchester Railways which then opened in 1830. He was incredibly important to the time period, for he furthered groundbreaking discoveries of the Industrial Revolution which made people's lives more easy and efficient.]]> 2017-02-14 01:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153608383 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153608606 He was an engineer, industrial engineer, and industrialist from modern-day Germany. He was the pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. This allowed people' lives to become more efficient with the increase in efficiency of automobiles; they are able to go faster, for longer.]]> 2017-02-14 02:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153608606 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153609130 He was a weaver, carpenter, and inventor in Lancashire, England. He was one of the three inventors responsible for mechanizing spinning. He is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764. This made production in textile mills much more efficient and thus less costly.]]> 2017-02-14 02:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153609130 mch0923 https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153609821 He was a French philosopher who founded the discipline of sociology. He coined the term and doctrine of positivism, his most notable achievement. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte developed positive philosophy in an attempt to call for a new social doctrine based on the sciences, especially after the French Revolution.]]> 2017-02-14 02:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mch0923/7lqgulrw07ol/wish/153609821