Chapter-9 ➤ The Industrial Revolution

1. Which one of the following is not true regarding the demands of participants of Luddism?

 
 
 
 

2. The Miner’s Friend, a model steam engine, was built by

 
 
 
 

3. Among the several factors which made Britain the first industrialized country, the one described as a major economic change, in the 18th century, was

 
 
 
 

4. The first blast furnace was invented by

 
 
 
 

5. _____ were those laws which prevented the import of cheaper food until prices in Britain had risen to a certain level.

 
 
 
 

6. Initially, canals were built in England to

 
 
 
 

7. By the 1850s, most of Britain was connected by

 
 
 
 

8. The transformation of industry and the economy in Britain, between the 1780s and the 1850s, is called the

 
 
 
 

9. In 1814, the railway engineer George Stephenson constructed a locomotive called

 
 
 
 

10. The first Derby invented a _____ in 1709 C.E.

 
 
 
 

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