10 Questions
What did people before industrialization consider important in relation to science and the mechanic arts?
Means of arriving at social and political ends
Why did the distinction between arts and society lose force by Webster's time?
Conservative complacency induced by capitalist growth
Who did Senator Webster primarily represent?
Factory owners, merchants, and financiers
What did Senator Webster identify with in relation to the railroad?
Company directors and stockholders enjoying profits
What replaced the discrete machine as the typical embodiment of the new power during the industrial revolution?
A new kind of sociotechnological system
What did people before industrialization primarily consider important about advances in science and the mechanic arts?
As a means of achieving social and political ends
Why did the distinction between arts and society lose force by Webster's time?
Due to the presumed success of republican revolutions
Who did Senator Webster primarily identify his interests with in relation to the railroad?
Company directors and stockholders
What did early industrial revolution innovations in the mechanic arts primarily consist of?
Single, freestanding, more or less self-contained mechanical inventions
What replaced the discrete machine as the typical embodiment of new power during the industrial revolution?
A new kind of sociotechnological system
Test your knowledge on the relationship between arts, society, and culture, and the historical perspective on the impact of industrialization.
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