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Junior Cycle Engineering: Engineering history & inventors

How often Engineering history & inventors comes up on the Engineering papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.

Engineering history & inventors, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Engineering history & inventors.

(a)What is the main advantage of mass production on an assembly line?
  1. Every item is a unique one-off design
  2. Many items made fast at a low cost each
  3. One worker makes each whole product
(b)Which branch of engineering designs bridges, roads and tunnels?
  1. Chemical engineering
  2. Electronic engineering
  3. Civil engineering
(c)Clare-born engineer John Philip Holland is best known for developing which invention?
  1. The submarine
  2. The telephone
  3. The steam engine
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(a) Many items made fast at a low cost each

(b) Civil engineering

(c) The submarine

Your turn: Common Level questions on Engineering history & inventors.

Common Level

Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Not asked
2024Q3a
2023Not asked
2022Q2a, Q2b

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

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