Vocabulary Flashcards
Money or wealth used in trade in manufacturing or in any business
Capital
A manufacturing system in witch a product is completed step by step by different workers
Assembly line
The system of home centered hand manufacturing that preceded the industrial revolution
Cottage industry
A machine that removes seeds from cotton
Cotton gin
A place where workers use machines to make products
Factory’s
Machine parts are mass produced and identical as opposed to being hand made or one of a kind
Interchangeable parts
A machine for weaving thread into cloth
Loom
Making products on a large scale usually by a machine
Mass production
The process of testing fibers into thread or yarn for weaving
Spinning
The first machine to replace the spinning wheel
Spinning Jenny
A type of spinning machine that was capable of performing the work of 300 hand spinners
Spinning mule
And external combustion engine in which fuel is burned to heat water and convert it into steam the steam is used to push a piston
Steam engine
A cloth product
Textile
The process of turning thread or yarn into cloth that is done on a loom
Weaving
Increases worker productivity and more goods because jobs are divided among workers
Division of labor
