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1. 01In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin in the 1700s?
2. 02The scientific unit of power is named after which steam engine pioneer?
3. 03Who invented the spinning jenny, the machine that let one worker spin many threads at once?
4. 04What was the name of George Stephenson's famous early locomotive?
5. 05Eli Whitney is famous for inventing which device in 1793?
6. 06Thomas Edison's famous New Jersey laboratory earned him the nickname 'The Wizard of' where?
7. 07Samuel Morse developed his famous code to send messages over which invention?
8. 08Thanks to its booming textile mills, Manchester earned which nickname?
9. 09Which fuel powered the steam engines and iron furnaces of the Industrial Revolution?
10. 10Which production method did Henry Ford famously use to build the Model T quickly and cheaply?
11. 11The Bessemer process made it cheap to mass produce which material?
12. 12The Luddites protested against industrialization by doing what?
13. 13Richard Arkwright is best known for which spinning invention?
14. 14The world's first major cast iron bridge, opened in 1781 in Shropshire, crosses which river?
15. 15The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first intercity line worked by steam locomotives, opened in which year?
16. 16Before railways took over, which transport network was built to haul heavy cargo like coal cheaply across Britain?
17. 17Britain's Factory Acts of the 1800s were mainly passed to do what?
18. 18The Great Stink of 1858, caused by a sewage-filled river in a summer heatwave, hit which city?

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