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industrial revolutio
History G10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production |
| textiles | cloth items |
| Richard Arkwright | an inventor who patented a large spinning machine, called the water frame, that ran on water power and created dozens of cotton threads at once |
| Samuel Slater | a skilled British mechanic who could build the new textile machines |
| technology | the tools used to produce items or to do work |
| Eli Whitney | an inventor with an idea for mass-producing guns |
| interchangeable parts | pieces that are exactly the same |
| mass production | the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods |