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Triumph of Industry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneur | |
| Protective Tariff | |
| Laissez Faire | |
| Patent | |
| Bessemer process | |
| Suspension Bridge | |
| Time Zone | |
| Mass Production | |
| a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. | |
| a tariff levied on imports to protect the domestic economy rather than to raise revenue | |
| of, relating to, or conforming to the principles or practices of laissez faire. | |
| the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years. | |
| a process of producing steel, in which impurities are removed by forcing a blast of air through molten iron. | |
| a bridge having a deck suspended from cables anchored at their extremities and usually raised on towers. | |
| one of the 24 regions or divisions of the globe approximately coinciding with meridians at successive hours from the observatory at Greenwich, England. | |
| the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery. |