Chapter 1 – The Rise of Industrial Society in the West
the use of the more efficient steam engine rather than unpredictable electricity.
following the philosophy of Karl Marx in organizing the economy.
being restricted to the United States and Russia instead of the nations of Western Europe.
53. The inventor of the telephone in 1876 and the person who sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901 were
Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan.
Richard Planck and Thomas Brooks.
Eastman Kodak and William Gladstone.
Alexander Graham Bell and Guglielmo Marconi.
John Reith and Baden Powell.
54. In 1889, the world’s tallest structure was to be found in the city of
55. By the 1870s, Europeans were
abandoning free trade and adopting tariffs.
abandoning tariffs in favor of free trade.
adopting free trade but abandoning laissez-faire.
abandoning capitalism in favor of socialism.
looking to Russia as the industrial model to emulate.
encouraged industrial competition.
reduced industrial competition.
were modern department stores distributing new consumer products.
were common in Great Britain but unknown in Germany.
were abolished in the late nineteenth century.