INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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History

8th Grade

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1.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Who built the first workable steam engine?

Back

James Watt

2.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Name this invention.

Back

Powerloom

3.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Which industrialist and inventor is said to have built the world’s first modern factory?

Back

Richard Arkright

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Which celebrated Victorian engineer built the Great Western Railway?

Back

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Which engineer built the train for this railway? Options: Abraham Darby, George Stephenson, James Watt, James Hargreaves

Back

George Stephenson

6.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What steamship – then the largest in the world – did this engineer complete in 1859?

Back

SS Great Eastern

7.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

The first product to be mass–produced by machines was_________

Back

Cotton

8.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

The system of transmitting messages along a wire using an electrical signal is known as ____

Back

Telegraph

9.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Birmingham was also known as the ______

Back

City of One Thousand Trades