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

The Standard Oil Trust, depicted in the cartoon, influenced with technological advances because with its monopoly and new machines, Standard Oil Trust integrated vertically, designed its own oil barrels, the Company built pipelines and storages to keep the oil. This way, Standard Oil reduced prices and at the end, destroyed the competition. By 1882, Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust controlled almost 90 percent of the refining industry in America.

The cartoon depicting Standard Oil tank as an octopus represents the power and influence the Company had in the country, grabbing with its tentacles industries such as mining, steel, petroleum, and official buildings like the White House, and the Capitol.

answer: born in saint-dié, in the vosges department, france, he studied law, and was called to the bar at paris in 1854,[2] but soon went into politics, contributing to various newspapers, particularly to le temps. he attacked the second french empire with great violence, directing his opposition especially against baron haussmann, prefect of the seine department. a series of his articles in le temps was later republished as the fantastic tales of haussmannlaxupa (1868).[2]

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