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TermVocabulary Interchangeable Parts Assembly Line

Essential Question

What new technologies contributed to the Industrial Revolution?

What effect did machines have?Machines, combined with new production ideas…

revolutionized…

changed …

the lives of people around the globe

Where was the first change?

It began with changes in the textile industry

JOHN KAY invented his FLYING SHUTTLE

This sped up the weaving process

What inventions paved the way?Other inventions that changed

textile production…

Spinning Jenny

Water Frame Steam Engine

Power Loom

Cotton Gin

What other ideas emerged?

The use of machines increased the demand for iron and coal

As the iron making industry peaked, inventors worked on

ways to turn iron into steel

Who was Henry Bessemer?

BESSEMER PROCESS

Blasting air through molten iron results in steel

HENRY BESSEMER

This process lowered steel making costs from $200 a ton to $4 a ton

Why was the steam engine important?Also, the invention of the STEAM ENGINE allowed

factories to be built anywhere

Steam engines relied on coal for power, not water

How did transportation change?

Industry still needed ways to transport raw materials to factories and goods to markets…

STEAMBOATS RAILROADS

These were simple combinations of combining steam power with new methods of iron and steel production

What was mass production?

While machines were increasing the output of

goods…

Two concepts would lead to the MASS PRODUCTION

of goods

Making large amounts of the same product

Results in cheaper prices

What led to mass production?

Those two concepts were:

INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS

and

DIVISON OF LABOR

How did the creation of parts change?

INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS

Using machines to create parts that are exactly alike

Parts made by hand are never the same --- each part

differs in some small way

The idea of interchangeable parts makes it easier to:

Fit parts together Fix parts when they break

How was labor made easier?DIVISON OF LABOR

Instead of having each worker creating a product after product from start to finish…

Workers began to SPECIALIZE

doing one specific task

How did assembly lines work?

HENRY FORD

This method is typically known as an

ASSEMBLY LINE

used ASSEMBLY LINES in the early 1900s to build low-cost

automobiles

What was the new power source?

Throughout the late 1800s and 1900s, many discoveries kept industry moving

Some of the biggest discoveries involved

electricity

What new inventions appeared?

SAMUEL MORSE used electricity to invent the TELEGRAPH

1830

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL used electricity to invent the

TELEPHONE

1876

GUGLIELMO MARCONI used electricity to invent the WIRELESS

TELEGRAPH (radio)

1896

How else was electric used?Electricity could be used for more than communication…

1879THOMAS EDISON invented the electric

LIGHT BULB

1882The first central power

station appears

Soon, electric generators will run factories and power machines

Essential Question

What new technologies contributed to the Industrial Revolution?

TEXTILETECHNOLOGY

STEAMTECHNOLOGY

ELECTRICTECHNOLOGY

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TECHNOLOGY