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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 →

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The first nation to mechanise the production of goods in the eighteenth century was:

  1. Great Britain
  2. Great Belgium
  3. Great Bavaria
  4. Great Bohemia
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Correct answer: A. Great Britain

1. The United States, France and Belgium followed later. 2. One country began the shift before all of them. 3. That country was Great Britain. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 9, The Second Industrial Revolution._

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Cheap mass production of steel began in the 1850s with a method named after:

  1. Bernoulli
  2. Bessemer
  3. Boltzmann
  4. Berzelius
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Correct answer: B. Bessemer

1. The breakthrough was a way to make steel in bulk. 2. It carries the name of the man who developed it. 3. It is the Bessemer process. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 9, The Second Industrial Revolution._

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Cheaper rust-resistant steel let engineers make heavier and stronger:

  1. Rail lines
  2. Rain drains
  3. Roof tiles
  4. Rope coils
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Correct answer: A. Rail lines

1. Railways carried ever heavier loads as industry grew. 2. Iron track could not take that weight for long. 3. Steel made stronger rail lines possible. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 9, The Second Industrial Revolution._

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