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The first nation to mechanise the production of goods in the eighteenth century was:Read the answer and worked solution →Cheap mass production of steel began in the 1850s with a method named after:Read the answer and worked solution →Cheaper rust-resistant steel let engineers make heavier and stronger:Read the answer and worked solution →The petrol-driven automobile was patented in 1886 by the German engineer:Read the answer and worked solution →The incandescent light bulb was invented by Joseph Swan in Britain and in America by:Read the answer and worked solution →The first transatlantic telegraph line linking Britain and North America was completed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Chemical experiments produced synthetic aniline dyes that changed the colours of:Read the answer and worked solution →Industrialisation in Canada began in the 1850s in Montreal and:Read the answer and worked solution →Before 1868 Japan was ruled in the emperor's place by a military leader titled the:Read the answer and worked solution →The emperor who took the throne in 1867 and gave his name to Japan's modernisation was:Read the answer and worked solution →The first industrial goal of Japan's new government was to unite the regions by building:Read the answer and worked solution →Britain won Hong Kong and five treaty ports by winning the First:Read the answer and worked solution →Chinese writers later called the era beginning with those defeats the century of:Read the answer and worked solution →Industry drove empire because engines, tyres and machines needed new supplies of:Read the answer and worked solution →At the start of the Second Industrial Revolution the share of Africa Europeans controlled was about:Read the answer and worked solution →Britain took formal control of the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa in:Read the answer and worked solution →Britain's second area of interest in Africa was valued as a source of cotton. It was:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian farmers were pushed to grow tea and cotton to supply British mills. Such crops are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Africa's interior rivers are broken by waterfalls, so Europeans moved inland using:Read the answer and worked solution →An Indian entrepreneur from a wealthy Hindu family who invested in industry was Dwarkanath:Read the answer and worked solution →Compared with France and Germany, Italy's industrialisation began:Read the answer and worked solution →The Second Industrial Revolution rested above all on the mass production of:Read the answer and worked solution →
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