Inventions and technology in the "machine age"
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| Flying shuttle | A machine that sped up the weaving process
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| Spinning Jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton into thread very quickly
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| Cotton gin | Cleaned cotton 50 times more quickly than a person could
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| Puddling | This process used coke (derived from coal) to burn away impurities in iron ore
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| Patent | The exclusive ownership of an invention
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| Open-hearth process | A method that uses a special furnace to make many kinds of steel
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| Steam engine | Could be built almost anywhere because the steam engine did not rely on water power
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| Mass production | The manufacture of huge quantities of identical goods at cheap prices
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| Interchangeable parts | Use of machine made parts
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| Division of labor | Occurs by assigning workers to specialized tasks as a product moves along a conveyor belt from worker to worker
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| Assembly line | Method where products are assembled in a moving line
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