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