The Machine age Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Flying Shuttle | A machine that sped up the weaving process. |
Spinning Jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton into thread very quickly. |
Cotton Gin | Cleaned cotton 50 times more quickly than a person could. |
Puddling | This process used coke (derived from coal ) to burn away impurities in iron ore. |
Patent | The exclusive ownership of an invention. |
Open-hearth Process | A method that used a special furnace to make many kinds of steel. |
Steam Engine | Allowed factories to be built almost anywhere because the steam engine didn't rely on water power. |
Mass Production | The manufacture of huge quantities of identical goods at cheap prices. |
Interchangeable Parts | The use of machine-made parts that are exactly alike. |
Division of Labor | Occurs by assigning workers to specialized tasks as a product moves along a conveyor belt from worker to worker |
Assembly line | Products are assembled in a moving line |
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