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Inventions 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 uses a special furnace to make many kinds of steel |
| Steam engine | Could be built almost anywhere because the steam engine did not rely on water power |
| Mass production | The manufacture of huge quantities of identical goods at cheap prices |
| Interchangeable parts | Use of machine made parts |
| Division of labor | Occurs by assigning workers to specialized tasks as a product moves along a conveyor belt from worker to worker |
| Assembly line | Method where products are assembled in a moving line |