Technology and Society in the Industrial Age

Question 1

Which of these forms of transportation was not an innovation that used rails?

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B: the automobile

Question 2

The invention shown on the right is the telephonemultiplextelegraph.

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C: telegraph

Question 3

How was communication by telegraph an improvement over communication by mail carriage?

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A: The telegraph allowed information to be communicated instantly.

Question 4

The invention shown on the left is the telephonemultiplextelegraph.

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A: telephone

Question 5

Which of the following statements best explains how subways and elevated trains changed urban transportation?

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C: They allowed people to live in one area and work in another.

Question 6

What innovations did Ford use to increase production and reduce costs of automobile production? Check all of the boxes that apply.

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A: interchangeable parts; B: mass production; C: moving assembly lines

Question 7

Madam C. J. Walker built a multimillion-dollar business by selling her innovative products in the

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B: beauty industry

Question 8

Which of the following developments made it easier to build and repair manufactured goods?

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A: interchangeable parts

Question 9

The code used in the telegraph was named after its inventor. Who was he?

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Samuel Morse

Question 10

Who invented this device?

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Alexander Graham Bell

Technology and Society in the Industrial Age Answers