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Industrial Rev
Industrial Revolutio
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is James Hargreaves? | Weaver, carpenter, and inventor who invented the Spinning Jenny |
| Who is Richard Arkwright? | Englishman who invented the water frame |
| Who is Richard Trevithick? | British inventor and mining engineer who created the high-pressure steam engine |
| Who is James Watt? | Scottish inventor who improved the steam engine |
| Who is Henry Bessemer? | English engineer, inventor, and businessman who manufactured steel with the Bessemer Process |
| Who is Henry Ford? | American industrialist who is known for his development of the assembly line technique of mass production; created the Model T |
| What is Urbanization? | The physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. |
| What is the Industrial Revolution? | A widespread replacement of hard, manual labor by newly invented machines in the 18th and 19th century |
| What is the Agricultural Revolution? | In the 17th-19th centuries, an increase in agricultural productivity in Great Britain which helped drive the Industrial Revolution |
| What is Mass Production? | The production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines. |
| What is Division of Labor? | The specialisation of cooperative labor in specific, specialized tasks and like roles. |
| What is Mechanization? | Is providing human operators with machinery that assists them with the muscular requirements of work or displaces muscular work. |
| What is the Spinning Jenny? | A multi-spool spinning frame |
| What is the Water Frame? | The name given to the spinning frame, when water power is used to drive it |
| What is a Textile? | A flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. |
| What are Interchangeable Parts? | Identical parts; they are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any device of the same type. |
| What is the Steam Engine? | A heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. |
| What is the "Invisible Hand"? | The term economists use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace |
| What is "Laissez Faire"? | An environment in which transactions between private parties are free from state intervention, including restrictive regulations, taxes, tariffs and enforced monopolies. |
| What is "Free Market Capitalism"? | A competitive market where prices are determined by supply and demand. |
| Who is Adam Smith? | Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. Wrote the Wealth of Nations. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment |
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