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Industrialization |
an economic system where machines do work that was once performed by animals or humans
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Corporation |
a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law
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Enclosure Movement |
new enclosure laws allowed landowners to combine and fence off the strips and public lands
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Crop Rotation |
rotating crops on three fields instead of two; this keeps soil fertile and more crops can be grown |
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Monopoly |
a market where there is only one provider |
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Flying Shuttle |
a machine that sped up the weaving process |
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Design |
to skillfully plan or create something |
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Puddling |
The process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron |
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Patent |
sole legal right to an invention and its profits |
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Open Hearth Process |
a method that used a special furnace to make many kinds of steel
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Steam Engine |
a machine that did not rely on water power |
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Mass Production |
production of goods in quantity usually by machinery |
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Assembly Line |
pioneered by Henry Ford in 1913, a manufacturing method that allowed much more efficient mass production of goods
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