KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Electricity did not affect businesses.
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Electricity enabled businesses to be open at night to make more products.
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Electricity causes businesses to get distracted and make less money.
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Electricity was a safety hazard and caused business production to decrease.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Electric lights allowed factories to adopt longer hours, and many factories began to operate 24 hours a day (“Industrialization and Urbanization in the United States, 1880-1929” via Oxford Research Encyclopedias: American History).
Detailed explanation-2: -Electricity is an essential part of modern life and important to the U.S. economy. People use electricity for lighting, heating, cooling, and refrigeration and for operating appliances, computers, electronics, machinery, and public transportation systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -The second industrial revolution had begun! Electricity moved into many areas such as industry, railway transport, street lighting before it went into homes. In the 1920s, the rapid expansion of electricity made it possible for electricity networks to be established in industrial countries.