Technological Changes and Occupations
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- In what year did the labour riots take place which were the beginnning of our road to nationhood?
- 1938
- In what year was the first election under universal suffrage held?
- 1944
- What year did World War 11 end?
- 1945
- When the war ended the world's resources that had been focused on warfare were shifted towards..what?
- development
- Who wrote the book 'When Me Was A Boy' and what was this book telling us?
- Charles Hyatt,it tells us about the life in Kingston at the time.(1930s and 1940s)
- Name three advantages of technological changes.
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1.create jobs that had not been there before
2.forced people to develop new skills to match the new technology.
3.improved communication and transportation - Name three disadvantages of technological changes.
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1.slowly the role of the teacher is being replaced by computers
2.over use of the cell phones cause cancer and men have a low sperm count.
3.some jobs have been eliminated because of the use of machines - What year was the electric bulb invented and where?
- 1879 in the U.S.A
- Whaich town in Jamaica was the first to have electric lights?
- Black River
- After the company closed down in what year was electricity re-introduced in Black river.
- 1936
- What is plastic made from?
- petroleum
- Before plastic what were domestic items domestic items made of?
- ceramic,glass,enamel or metal
- Name 3 heavy duty equipment used for industrial work.
- tractors,cranes,bulldozers,forklifts.
- Name the first radio station in Jamaica and when did it begin operation?
- ZQI,it began operation in November 1939
- What did ZQI change to?
- RJR-Radio Jamaica and Rediffusion
- the first radios were big but with the change from tubes to ________ the size was considerably reduced.
- transistors
- What does JBC stand for?
- Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation
- What is our first TV station?
- JBC TV
- When RJR purchased JBC what was the TV station renamed?
- SSTV(Super Supreme)
- When was SSTV renamed TVJ?
- 1998
- What is the list of all people involved in making the show at the end of locally made programmes call?
- the credits
- Name 3 people that work for a radio/TV station.
- broadcasters,producers,officestaff,sales people,technical staff,library staff,newsroom staff
- Secretaries first used manual typewriters then electrical typewriters;many of them now use...
- word processors
- When was the first telephone installed in Jamaica and where?
- Kingston in 1878.
- The first planes were__________ and were called..
- amphibian,flying boats
- Name 2 traditional exports in agriculture.
- banana,citrus,coffee
- Name 2 traditional exports in mining
- bauxite,alumina,gypsum
- Three taditional exports in manufacturing are..
- sugar,rum,citrus products,coffee products,cocoa products
- Name 4 non-traditional exports.
- okra,cucumber,pumpkins,dasheen,yams,sweet potatoes
- Where is most of apparel made?
- Free Zones
- Horses need shoes and these are made by ...
- a blacksmith
- Where is the Caymanas race track?
- St.Catherine
- How long will a plastic bottle take to disintegrate if thrown into the garbage?
- 100 years
- Glass bottles are made in Jamaica by..
- West Indies Glass Co. Ltd.
- What must be created to put information on the internet?
- a web site
- What is the linking called?
- going online
- Web sites addresses usually begin with www,which means..
- World Wide Web
- Through this medium a message typed into a computer linked to a telephone reaches its destination anywhere in the world instantaneously is called..
- electronic mail(e-mail)