Which of the following best describes some of the major advantages railroads had over more traditional shipping methods in the 19th century?
A) Steam-powered locomotives were simple machines and quickly allowed for transportation growth.
B) Private companies and individuals like Isambard Brunel built the early railroads.
C) By the 1860s, railroads were in government hands except in the United States.
D) The railroads greatly reduced costs of shipping and personal travel.
E) Railroads could go anywhere anytime so they had more mobility than other shipping means.
Question 2
Why were the Industrial Revolution's new processes slow to spread from England to other countries?
A) The breakdown diffusion of innovations, which kept new ideas and techniques from spreading .
B) England treating industrial techniques as state secrets to protect their technological knowledge.
C) The relative ignorance of non-English peoples when it came to mechanical devices.
D) The fear of steam and its potential for dangerous scalding of human skin.
E) England failed to understand the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution so the information was not communicated.
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