Railroads
Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam locomotives travel upon.
What are railroads?
The construction of this canal triggered a switch from sail to steam power.
What is the Suez Canal?
Until the nineteenth century, steel was only made in very small quantities by these skilled craftsmen.
Who are blacksmiths?
This american inventor is best known for the electric lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
With colonies stretching from India to Canada, this country was a major global power in the industrial revolution.
What is Great Britain?
When the first railroads were built in England.
What are the 1830s?
Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for communication.
What are submarine telegraph cables?
This element was introduced to iron in order to create steel.
What is carbon?
Due to vast quantities of untreated human and industrial waste dumped into the Thames, referred to the stench as this.
What is "The Big Stink?"
Colonial powers imported these from their colonies and then exported finished goods.
What is raw materials?
Improved the steam engine.
Who was James Watt?
This technology replaced sails and paddle wheels to increase speed and efficiency.
What is a propeller?
The decade when steel was introduced.
When were the 1860s?
One of the worst environmental effects of railroads.
What is deforestation?
This term describes trade between all continents which began in the nineteenth century.
What is globalization?
The year when the steam engine was first built.
1712
Previously made of wood, this material replaced the hulls of ships in the mid-nineteenth century.
What is iron and steel?
This Englishman is credited with a new process to create steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
In 1831, wire made of this element was used to create an electric current in a magnetic field.
What is copper?
This form of import taxes raises the price of foreign goods, so domestic goods can be competitive locally.
What are tariffs?
The year when James Watt improved the steam engine.
When was 1764?
In this decade the first transatlantic telegraph cable was successfully laid.
What are the 1860s?
In 1866, this Swedish scientist turned nitroglycerin into dynamite.
Who is Alfred Nobel?
This U.S. state was at the center of the industrial revolution and the resulting environmental impact.
What is Pennsylvania?
Adam Smith, the author of "Wealth of Nations", is commonly known as the father of this.
What is modern economics?