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The machine age
Question | Answer |
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Flying shuttle | A machine that sped up the weaving process |
Spinning jenny | Enabled spinners to spin cotton very quickly |
Cotten gin | Cleaned cotton 50 times more quickly than a person could |
Puddling | A process that used coke to burn away impurities in iron ore |
Patent | The exclusive ownership of an invention |
Open-hearth prosses | A method that used a special furnace to make many kinds of steel |
Steam engine | Allowed factories to be built almost anywhere |
Mass production | The manufacture of huge quantities of identical goods a cheap prices |
Interchangeable parts | The use of machine-made parts that exactly alike |
Division of labor | Assigning workers to specialized tasks as a product moves along a conveyer belt from worker to worker |
Assembly line | A moving line that products are assembled on |