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Inventions and technology in the " Machine Age"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flying shuttle | Machine that began the revolution. |
| Spinning jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton into thread very quickly |
| Cotton gin | Cleaned cotton 50 times more quickly then a person could |
| Puddling | This process used coke to burn away impurities in iron ore |
| Patent | The exclusive ownership of an invention, for the process from the United States Patent Office |
| Open-hearth process | A method that used a special furnace to make many kinds of steal |
| Steam engines | Allow factories to be built almost anywhere because the steam engine did not rely on water power |
| Mass production | 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 conveyer belt from worker to worker |
| Assembly line | Products are assembled in a moving line |