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Machine age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flying shuttle | New methods of running machines and new ways of processing cotton |
| Spinning Jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton into thread very quickly |
| Cotton gin | Clean cotton 50 times more quickly than a person could |
| Puddling | High-quality iron |
| Patent | Or the exclusive ownership of an invention |
| Open-heart 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 did not rely on water power |
| Mass production | Is 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 specialalized tasks as a product moves along a conveyor belt from workers to workers |
| Assembly line | Low-cost automobiles |