COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It made native Africans rich.
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Native Africans were forced to work like slaves to acquire the raw material for making tires.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child’s tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scotsman John Dunlop developed the first practical pneumatic tire in 1888. His tire provided the foundation for the Dunlop Tire Company and served as the genesis for the modern tire industry.
Detailed explanation-3: -The company has been involved in rubber-tire manufacture since the late 19th century. Dunlop’s founder, John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), who had constructed the first pneumatic (air-filled) tire, received a patent for the tire in 1888. The following year he formed a company to manufacture pneumatic bicycle tires.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was in 1845 that pneumatic or air filled tyres were invented and patented by Robert William Thomson, a Scottish inventor.