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The Machine age
Terms to know about the invention and technology in the machine age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flying Shuttle | A machine that sped up the weaving process. |
| Spinning Jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton into thread very quickly. |
| Cotton Gin | Cleaned cotton 50 times more quickly than a person could. |
| Puddling | This process used coke (derived from coal ) to burn away impurities in iron ore. |
| Patent | The exclusive ownership of an invention. |
| Open-hearth Process | A method that used a special furnace to make many kinds of steel. |
| Steam Engine | Allowed factories to be built almost anywhere because the steam engine didn't rely on water power. |
| Mass Production | The manufacture of huge quantities of identical goods at cheap prices. |
| Interchangeable Parts | The use of machine-made parts that are exactly alike. |
| Division of Labor | Occurs by assigning workers to specialized tasks as a product moves along a conveyor belt from worker to worker |
| Assembly line | Products are assembled in a moving line |