Technological Innovation

AP US History· difficulty 4/5

The Bessemer process

  • A

    Was an agricultural technique that mechanized wheat harvesting on the Great Plains

  • B

    Was a banking method allowing rapid capital transfers between industrial firms

  • C

    Made steel production cheap and abundant, enabling skyscrapers, railroads, and bridges

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  • D

    Made oil refining cheap and abundant, enabling kerosene lighting and gasoline production

Explanation

Andrew Carnegie's steel empire was built on this process.

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