Another History Question?

Question

In what industry did the Industrial Revolution first take hold in Britain?

Iron production

Agriculture

Transportation

Textiles

Answer 1

Textiles... see my source for confirmation:

Answer 2

General Lee was one of the best tacticians in American Military History, He took an army that was out-manned and with inferior equipment and if not for Gettysburg might very well won the American Civil War. Pickett's charge was just one error but if the South would have won at Gettysburg they would have had clear sailing into Washington D.C. General Pershing had a completely different war to deal with. Trench warfare and the use of poisonous gas were a deadly mix but there wasn't a whole lot of tactical maneuvering involved. WWI was more a war of attrition than anything else. However General Pershing was a mentor to many of the Generals that served during WWII including General Patton.

Answer 3

Textiles

Answer 4

Textiles, and remember, the industrial revolution did an industrial number on the lower class. A group of people called Luddites actually went s o far as to break into factories to destroy power looms and equipment that the believed put people out of work.

Answer 5

Textiles corgy!

Answer 6

I miss Mining. The first steam engines were pumps for draining mines.

"Early industrial steam engines were designed by Thomas Savery (the "fire-engine", 1698) but it was Thomas Newcomen and his "atmospheric-engine" of 1712 that demonstrated the first operational and practical industrial engine. Together, Newcomen and Savery developed a beam engine that worked on the atmospheric, or vacuum, principle. The first industrial applications of the vacuum engines were in the pumping of water from deep mineshafts."

"Steam engine" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine

Also the first modern railways were used for moving coal and ore out of mines in the UK.

"The first railways in Great Britain (also known as wagonways) were built in the early 17th century, mainly for transporting coal from the mine to the water side where it could be loaded on to a boat. Early examples of this can be found in Broseley in Shropshire. These had wooden rails and flanged wheels, as on a modern railway. However, the rails were liable to wear out and have to be replaced. In 1768, the Coalbrookdale Company laid cast iron plates on such wooden rails to provide a more durable bearing surface"

"Rail transport" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway#History

Another good candidate is Agriculture, especially the sugar industry in the West Indies.

"Approximately 3000 small mills built before 1550 in the New World created an unprecedented demand for cast iron gears, levers, axles and other implements. Specialist trades in mold making and iron casting were inevitably created in Europe by the expansion of sugar. Sugar mill construction is the missing link of the technological skills needed for the Industrial Revolution that is recognized as beginning in the first part of the 1600s."

"Beginning in the late 18th century, sugar production became increasingly mechanized. The steam engine first powered a sugar mill in Jamaica in 1768, and soon thereafter, steam replaced direct firing as the source of process heat."

"Sugar" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar

Answer 7

This shows what is wrong with teaching by multiple-choice questions. This is completely a matter of opinion and interpretation.

Answer 8

I believe textiles. Bye!!!

Answer 9

textiles

Answer 10

Agriculture, for sure.

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