QUESTION $(1)$

ANSWER

The product era is $$

An era which relates to the early twentieth$-$century expansion in transportation and distribution due to the rise of railroads and especially the automobile. This expansion increased the number of consumers available. There was more focus on "finding people to whom we can sell what we make."

A mid$-$twentieth$-$century period associated with the rise of television. The focus was on developing products specifically for a particular consumer group and marketing directly to them.

The pre$-$nineteenth$-$century period when items were generally hand$-$made, expensive, and rare and the focus was on quality and durability

The era that started in the mid$-$nineteenth century with the Industrial Revolution in England. It saw the rise of machine$-$based mass production with a focus on the ability to produce a wide variety of items in large quantities inexpensively