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The machine age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flying shuttle | A machine that sped up the weaving process |
| Spinning jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton very quickly |
| Cotten gin | Cleaned cotton 50 times more quickly than a person could |
| Puddling | A process that used coke to burn away impurities in iron ore |
| Patent | The exclusive ownership of an invention |
| Open-hearth prosses | A method that used a special furnace to make many kinds of steel |
| Steam engine | Allowed factories to be built almost anywhere |
| Mass production | The manufacture of huge quantities of identical goods a cheap prices |
| Interchangeable parts | The use of machine-made parts that exactly alike |
| Division of labor | Assigning workers to specialized tasks as a product moves along a conveyer belt from worker to worker |
| Assembly line | A moving line that products are assembled on |