M1S3 Formative Flashcards
The Industrial Revolution let to inventions that included what
steam engine cotton gin sewing machine telegraph telephone dynamite vaccine lightbulb
Who invented dynamite
Alfred Nobel
The Industrial Revolution marked a period of development in the latter half of what century?
18th
At a time when people had to make their own clothes at home or pay someone else to sew them bu hand, Elias Howe invents what?
sewing machine
The increase number of factories and migration to the cities led to pollution, deplorable working and living conditions, as well as child labor.
True
Who invented the steam engine
Thomas Newcomen
Safety break was invented to prevent parachutes from falling if a cable breaks
false
in 1861, Welsh entrepreneur Pryce-Jones formed the first mail order business, an idea which would change the nature of retail.
true
Christians captured what city in 1099?
Jerusalem
