The Industrial Revolution

What this quiz asks

• Which English city was nicknamed 'Cottonopolis' for its huge number of cotton mills?
• What was Thomas Newcomen's steam engine of 1712 mainly used for?
• The Luddites, who smashed textile machines in the 1810s, took their name from a real factory owner called Ludd.
• John Kay's flying shuttle, patented in 1733, made which textile job much faster?
• In 1804 the first steam locomotive to haul a train along rails ran at an ironworks in Wales. Who built it?
• Select ALL of these machines that were invented to spin thread rather than weave cloth.
• The Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761, was built mainly to carry what from the Duke of Bridgewater's mines to Manchester?
• Was the Crystal Palace, which housed London's Great Exhibition of 1851, designed by a gardener?
• What did Henry Bessemer's process, patented in 1856, make cheap enough to mass-produce?
• Which engineer built the Great Western Railway between London and Bristol?
• In 1709 at Coalbrookdale, Abraham Darby began smelting iron with which fuel instead of charcoal?
• In cotton mills, children known as 'scavengers' crawled under working spinning machines to collect loose fluff.
• In 1771 Richard Arkwright opened a water-powered cotton mill, one of the first modern factories, in which village?
• Which Birmingham manufacturer went into partnership with James Watt in 1775 to build and sell steam engines?
• Select ALL of these that powered British textile mills before 1800.
• At the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, which politician was killed by a locomotive?
• George Stephenson's track gauge became the world's standard. How many millimetres apart are the rails?
• Which German writer described the slums of Manchester in 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' (1845)?
• Samuel Slater memorised British mill designs, emigrated and built a famous cotton mill in 1793 in which US state?
• Order these countries by when their first steam-hauled passenger railway opened, earliest first.