alleryWhich kind of country made industrialists keen on mechanical power?
ACountries with cheap land
BCountries with labour shortage
CCountries with rich nobles
DCountries with no coal
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Countries with labour shortage
Where labour was short, employers wanted machines to reduce how many workers they needed, as in nineteenth-century America.
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