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North in 1800s
chapter 11
mass production | the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods |
industrial revolution | a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700 |
technology | the tools used to produce goods or to do work |
textile(s) | cloth |
interchangeable parts | a process developed by Eli Whitney in 1790 that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same |
Samuel Slater | English industrialist who brought a design for a textile mill to America, he is consider the founder of the American cotton industry |
Eli Whitney | American inventor whose cotton gin changed cotton harvesting procedures and enabled large increases in cotton production: he introduced technology of mass production through the development of interchangeable parts in gun-making |
Richard Arkwright | English inventor,he patented the water-powered spinning frame,improving the production of cotton thread |