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company store |
a retail store selling a limited range of food, clothing, and daily necessities to the employees of a company. |
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a form of money that employees in a company town were paid in exchange for labor, redeemable for necessities only in company stores.
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black lung |
a lung disease acquired from breathing in coal dust for a prolonged period of time.
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Henry Ford |
he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many Americans could afford, owner of the Ford Motor Company. |
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moving assembly line |
manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts were moved from station to station where parts are added in sequence until the final product is completed. |
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interchangeable parts |
identical parts that fit into any assembly of the same type. |
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Thomas Edison |
American inventor who made the light bulb, phonograph, and the motion-picture camera. |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Scottish scientist who patented the first telephone. |
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Wright brothers |
American brothers who invented the first successful airplane and made the first successful human flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
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transcontinental railroad |
railroad constructed in America from 1863 to 1869 to connect the eastern and western United States. |
