Two Technological Innovations That Greatly Expanded the Industrial Employment of Women

question 58

Multiple Choice

Two technological innovations that greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late nineteenth 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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