vocabulary
The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small repetitive tasks. This method was introduced into the manufacture of pottery by Josiah Wedgwood and into the spinning of cotton thread by Richard Arkwrigt.
Mass Production
Scot who invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt, an electrical measurement, is named after him.
James Watt
The first engine was invented.
1712
Used to make steel or used for construction
Iron ore
Machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion.
steam engine
A manufacturing technique that breaks down a craft into many simple and repetitive tasks that can be performed by unskilled workers.
Division of labor
believed that science and technology would solve most of humanity's problems. Accordingly, in opposition to feudalism and militarism, he advocated an arrangement whereby businessmen and other industrial leaders would control society.
Saint Simon
Samuel slater leave for America.
1789
Used to make cement and glass in buildings.
Limestone
This device offered new means of communication over long distances
Electric telegraph
The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth-and-early-nineteenth-century England.
Merchanization
English industrary whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Joshua Wedgood
The cotton engine was invented
1794
Resource used in lightning and factories.
Natural Gas
Vehicles that traveled on rails or roads.
Trains
Building erected in Hyde Park, London for the Great exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass, like a gigantic greenhouse, it was a symbol of the industrial age.
Crystal palace
English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the early Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame, A machine that, with minimal human supervision, could spin many cotton threads at once.
Richard Arkwright
The news reported Henry Claw was nominated was for president.
1844
Energy source for combustible powered engines.
Oil
A device that takes energy from water running thorugh its paddles.
water wheel
is an economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
Mercantilism
He developed a series of dots and dashes that could be transmitted electrically in 1836; they came to be known as Morse Code, though it wouldn't be until 1844 that the first telegraph service opened, between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
Samuel Morse
Bessemer process for extracting steel is discover
1855
Strong fibers uniqeuly suited to the hard mechanial treatment, used for garment as well as interior textiles.
Cotton
Adevice that is used to weave together threads in order to produce a fabric.
Power loom