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Machine age
Question | Answer |
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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 |