Two Technological Innovations That Greatly Expanded the Industrial Employment of Women

question 62

Multiple Choice

Two technological innovations that greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late 19^th century were the

• A) typewriter and the telephone.
• B) electric light and the phonograph.
• C) Bessemer steel process and the internal combustion engine.
• D) streetcar and the bicycle.
• E) electric refrigerator and stove.

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Goods or services that can be used in place of each other, fulfilling similar needs or desires.

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An indication of the extent to which the demand or supply of a product alters following a variation in its price.

Substitutes

Products or services that can be used in place of each other, where the increase in price of one leads to an increase in demand for the other.

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