Technological advancement
What Technological advancement means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Change that included the printing press, the Industrial Revolution's mass production and railways, and much later digital networks that changed how offences could be committed and investigated.
Innovations such as fingerprinting, two-way radios, DNA profiling, CCTV and computer databases transformed how crimes are investigated and prevented.
In the twentieth century these transformed the force, including fingerprinting, two-way radios, motorised patrol vehicles and DNA profiling.
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