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Machine age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flying shuttle | That sped up the weaving process. |
| Spinning Jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton into thread very quickly. |
| Cotton gin | Cleaned cotton 50 times more quickly than a person could. |
| Puddling | This process used coke to burn away impurities in iron ore. |
| Patent | The exclusive ownership of an invention. |
| Open heart process | A method that used a special furnace to make many kinds of steel. |
| Steam engine | Replaced waterproof with stream power allowing factories to be built anywhere. |
| Mass production | The manufacture of huge quantities of Identical goods at cheap prices. |
| Interchangeable parts | The uses of machines made parts that are exactly alike. |
| Division of labor | Occurs when assigning workers to specialized tasks as a product moves along a conveyor belt from worker to worker. |
| Assembly line | Henry ford used the assembly line in the early 1900s to build low cost automobile. |