Technological innovation
What Technological innovation means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Pioneering developments in new industries like chemicals and electrical engineering, alongside old industries such as coal and steel.
A driver of economic change including the steam engine, the factory system, and mechanisation in the textile and iron industries.
Brunel's innovative designs, including the lenticular truss, iron hulls and screw propulsion in his ships.
Topics that use Technological innovation
- 1F Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885 – through the following key questions: (AQA A-Level)
- 1L The quest for political stability: Germany, 1871–1991 – The Kaiserreich, 1871–1914 (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 34.1: Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society - 3 Isambard Kingdom Brunel: railways and ships, 1833–59 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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