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Industrial Rev 1
Beginnings and Inventions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A time of great economic, technological, and social changes that began in England | Industrial Revolution |
| land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurs | Factors of Production |
| Reasons why Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain | 1. Political Stability 2. Factors of Production 3. Exploration and Colonialism 4. Agricultural Revolution |
| Enclosure Movement | Movement during the Agricultural Revolution where landowners fenced in property to protect crops from animals; caused poor to lose common land |
| An economic system based on private ownership of businesses, free competition, & maximizing profits | Capitalism |
| Small scale industry where families use their own equipment to make products | Cottage Industry |
| The first industry was in this area | Textiles |
| Invented the Spinning Jenny | James Hargreaves |
| Invented the Seed Drill | Jethro Tull |
| Invented the Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney |
| Invented the Power Loom | Edmund Cartwright |
| Invented the Spinning Mule | Samuel Crompton |
| Large buildings built to house machines; mostly built near water sources | Factories |
| The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items | Mass Production |
| A mass production process in which a product is moved forward through many work stations | Assembly Line |
| When certain people do certain jobs | Division of Labor |
| Inventor of Interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney |
| Used interchangeable parts for the first time in the car industry | Henry Ford |
| British textile worker memorized textile machine blueprints and brought them to the United States and became known as the Father of American Industry | Samuel Slater |
| Perfected the steam engine | James Watt |
| Invented the steamship | Robert Fulton |
| Mining industries that increased during Industrial Revolution | Iron and coal |
| 2 new forms of steam based transportation | Steam locomotives Steamships |
| World's largest iron producer during Industrial Revolution | Great Britain |
| Built the first affordable cars | Henry Ford |
| Built the first airplane and flew the first sustainable flight | Wrights Brothers |
| Inventor of Steel | Henry Bessemer |
| Process used to make and purify steel | Bessemer Process |
| Identical machine-made parts that can be substituted for each other in manufacturing | Interchangeable parts |
| Inventor of telegraph | Samuel Morse |
| Language used by telegraph | Morse Code |
| Inventor of telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Device that allowed music to be played on recording in homes | Phonograph |
| Inventor of the phonograph and lightbulb | Thomas Edison |
| Inventor of the Wireless telegraph (radio) | Gugliemo Marconi |