Inventions and technology in the "machine age"
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| Flying shuttle | Sped up the weaving process
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| Spinning Jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton into thread very quickly
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| Water frame | Used water to power machines
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| Steam engine | Replaced waterpower with steam power, allowing factories to be built any where
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| Power loom | Wove thread into cloth as fast as the new spinning machines produced it
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| Cotton gin | Cleaned cotton 50 times faster than a person could
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| Puddling | 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 used a special furnace to make many kinds of steel
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| Steam engine |
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| Mass production | The manufacture of huge quantities of goods at cheap prices
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| Interchangeable parts | The use of machine-made parts that are exactly alike
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| Assembly line | Products are assembled in a moving line
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| Division of labor | Assigning workers to specialized tasks an a product moves across the conveyer belt from worker to worker
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