Providing the investment needed for the inventions of new technology
Explanation:
The industrialization process can only occurred after mankind invented machines and fuel energy that can be used to optimize mass production. In order to obtain this invention, many people in the past pooled up their capital to fund various types of researches.
Of course, these investors did not do it for selfless reasons. They fully hoped that they will recuperate their investment from the research. Nevertheless, they contributed to the advanced of technologies needed in industrialization.
It was a major turning point because there were some battles in World War I that ended in stalemates and ended mobile operations on the western front until 1918