The Major Incentive That Drove Captains of Industry to Invent

question 40

Multiple Choice

The major incentive that drove captains of industry to invent machines was

• A) lucrative government grants that were offered to would-be inventors.
• B) a chance to strike it rich via technological innovation.
• C) that machines would enable them to replace expensive skilled workers with cheap unskilled workers.
• D) that machines could do the work five times faster than humans did.
• E) None of these choices are correct.

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