final exam

1. Emperor of France 2. Railway 3. textile machinery 4. Patents 5. Henry Ford

1803: Cotton overtakes wool as Britain’s biggest export.
1804: Napoleon declared _____ on May 20th.
1807: Robert Fulton’s Clermont first successful steamboat.
1815: Napoleon escapes and is restored to power but is finally defeated at Waterloo, ending Napoleonic Wars.
1827: Benoit Fourneyron develops the water turbine.
1828: Aug 1 opening of the eight-mile Bolton and Leigh Railway.
1830: Sept 15 George Stephenson’s Rocket opens Liverpool-Manchester ______ , the world’s first passenger line.
1842: The Plug Plot
1843: Government lifts restrictions on the export of _______.
1851: Crampton lays first successful submarine telegraph cable between Dover and Calais.
1855: Henry Bessemer invents process for making cheap steel from pig iron, in response to call for guns for Crimean War.
1858: Laying of first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell ______ the telephone
1878: Edison patents the phonograph, using cylinders coated in tinfoil.
1880: Invention of electric light bulb.
1884: Charles Parsons patents the steam turbine.
1888: Nikola Tesla invents the alternating-current electric motor.
1892: Rudolf Diesel patents his heavy-oil engine.
1894: Manchester Ship Canal opened for sea-going vessels on January 1st.
1896: _____ manufactures his first motor car.
1897: Frederick Creed perfects the Creed Teleprinter for use in newspaper offices.
1900: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds his first rigid airship

PLEASE MATCH THE PARENTHESES WITH THEIR CORRESPONDING CONCEPT
1. World Trade Organization (WTO)International organization established to supervise and liberalize world trade.

2. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Trade pact signed in 1992 that would gradually eliminate most tariffs and other trade barriers on products and services passing between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

3. Workers’ compensation, also called Work Injury Compensation. Social-welfare program through which employers bear some of the cost of their employees’ work-related injuries and occupational diseases. It was first introduced in Germany in 1884, and by the middle of the 20th century most countries in the world had some kind of this benefit. Some systems take the form of compulsory social insurance; in others the employer is legally required to provide certain benefits, but insurance is voluntary.

4. International Labor Organization (ILO) Specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) dedicated to improving labor conditions and living standards throughout the world. Established in 1919, it became the first affiliated specialized agency of the UN in 1946. In recognition of its activities, it was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1969.

5. Labor law (also called labor law or employment law) Is the body of administrative rulings which addresses the legal rights of, and restrictions on, working people and their organizations. It mediates many aspects of the relationship between trade unions, employers and employees. There are two broad categories. First, collective law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, employer and union. Second, individual law concerns employees' rights at work and through the contract for work.