How was the large size and great power of the standard oil trust influenced by technological advances?

Technological advances caused an increase in the demand for oil and gasoline (which the company produced).

With its monopoly and new advanced machines, the company designed oil barrels and built pipelines to store their oil. With this, they had a monopoly of mostly 90% of the refining industry in America.

ww1 weapons: tank. tanks were used for the first time in the first world war at the battle of the somme. they were developed to cope with the conditions on the western front. the first tank was called 'little willie' and needed a crew of 3.

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