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Invention and technology in the “machine age”
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flying shuttle | That sped up the weaving proces |
| spinning jenny | enabled spinners to spin cotton into thread very quickly |
| cotton gins | cleaned cotton 50 time more quickly than a person could |
| pudding | used cocke to burn away impurities in iron ore |
| patent | eclusive ownership of an invention |
| open-hearth process | a method that use a special furnace to make many kinds of steel |
| steam engine | allowed factories to be built almost anywhere |
| mass production | manufacture of huge quantities of identical goods |
| interchangeable parts | use of machine |
| division of labor | occurs by assigning works to specialized tasks as product moves along a conveyor belt from worker |
| assembly line | henry ford used assembly line in th early 1900s to build low-cost automobiles |