What is a select committee?
a) a permanent committee of the house or senate that considers issues related to a single topic
b) a permanent committee made up of former congress members
c) a temporary committee that considers a specific question of national importance
d) a temporary committee that decides which bills to consider

A select committee is a small legislative committee scheduledfor a special reason. Hope this helps.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t