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process in which machines replace workers
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automation
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lowered the cost of making steel from $200 a ton to $400 a ton.
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Bessemer process
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In 1847, he had this idea of interchangeable parts to develop the assembly line
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Samuel Colt
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He was a german engineer
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Gottlieb
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manufacturing done in worker's cottages or homes
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domestic system
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he invented the telescope and then began to study stars and planets
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Galileo Galilei
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built wireless telegraph (radio)
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Guglielmo Marconi
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machine for spinning that uses many spindles
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spinning jenny
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associations of workers
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trade unions
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perfected the steam engine
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James Watt
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he developed a new way of organizing production
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Eli Whitney
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machine used to speed up textile making
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spinning jenny
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the idea that the sun is the center of the universe was published in 1543
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Copernicus
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The use of the scientific method to from new ideas and theories
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scientific revolution
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the enclosure movement in Great Britain did not make smaller harvests of ___
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crops
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what industry started the Industrial Revolution in Great Brittain?
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textile
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The most important source of power for factories by the middle of the Industrial Revolution was
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steam power
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Which of these inventors did not play a part in improving transportation in the late 1700 and early 1800s
McAdam, Hareaves, Fulton, Stevenson |
Hareaves
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What was the first product using an assembly line?
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colt revolver
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In Britain, who gained the most in comfort and influence from the Industrial REvolution
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middle class
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What nation was the last to industrialize
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Germany
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All of the following inventions depend on electricity except: morse telegraphy, marconis wireless, Edison's light bulb, Damler's engine
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Damler's engine
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