HIST 1301 Quiz 5 - Enlightenment, electricity and industry.

Question 1

What is the motto of the Enlightenment?

Accepted Answer

Dare to Know

Question 2

Who wrote Eléments de la philosophie de Newton?

Accepted Answer

Voltaire

Question 3

Who invented the first battery that supplied a continuous stream?

Accepted Answer

Alessandro Volta

Question 4

According to D'Alembert's philosophy of science all knowledge comes from:

Accepted Answer

Senses

Question 5

Steam power became available to British factories after what year?

Accepted Answer

1785

Question 6

Cultural movement that responded against the percieved Enlightenment mechanization of world:

Accepted Answer

Romanticism

Question 7

Who explained how electricity works (with + and - charges) by comparing it to an economy?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 8

Early manufactories (factories) had to be located near what?

Accepted Answer

water

Question 9

This inventor improved the Savery engine using atmospheric pressure to drive a piston downward

Accepted Answer

Thomas Newcomen

Question 10

What is "Nonage"?

Accepted Answer

Inability to use reason without external guidance

Question 11

"If I have seen far it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."

Accepted Answer

Newton

Question 12

This theologian and natural philosopher crafted an argument from design.

Accepted Answer

William Paley

Question 13

Thomas Savery referred to method/steam pump by what term?

Accepted Answer

water by fire

Question 14

The Novum Organum challenged ancient authority, systems and methods. Organum means:

Accepted Answer

Tool

Question 15

What did Stephen Grey's experiment with the orphan boy demonstrate?

Accepted Answer

Materials act as insulators and conductors of electricity.

Question 16

This French thinker tried to replace Aristotelianism with his own system.

Accepted Answer

Rene Descartes

Question 17

d'Alembert: The goal of science should be to reduce things to ______ & thereby understand them.

Accepted Answer

mechanical properties

Question 18

This machine was patented in 1769 by Richard Arkwright. What is it?

Accepted Answer

The water frame

Question 19

The motto of The Royal Society was:

Accepted Answer

Take no one's word for it.

Question 20

The first steam locomotive was introduced in 1814 by:

Accepted Answer

George Stephenson

Question 21

What does Operationalism mean?

Accepted Answer

Attaining knowledge for the purpose of using it.

Question 22

This frontispiece to Spratt's History of the Royal Society depicts Brouckner, Charles II and:

Accepted Answer

Francis Bacon

Question 23

According to D'Alembert's philosophy of science all knowledge comes from:

Accepted Answer

Senses

Question 24

Who wrote Elements of Chemistry and together with his wife identified 33 of the elements?

Accepted Answer

Lavoisier

Question 25

The Coal and Colonies theory is an explanation of why the Industrial Revolution began in _____.

Accepted Answer

England

Question 26

This inventor had to repurpose his engine for entertainment - Watt had cornered the mine market

Accepted Answer

Trevithick

Question 27

This image is from

Accepted Answer

Hooke'sMicrographia

HIST 1301 Quiz 5 - Enlightenment, electricity and industry.

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HIST 1301 Quiz 5 - Enlightenment, electricity and industry.

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