Vocabulary  Interchangeable Parts Assembly Line
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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…
Power Loom
Spinning Jenny
Water Frame
Cotton Gin
Steam Engine

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

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?
This method is typically known as an
ASSEMBLY LINE
HENRY FORD 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?
1830
SAMUEL MORSE used electricity to invent the TELEGRAPH
1876
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL used electricity to invent the
TELEPHONE
1896
GUGLIELMO MARCONI used electricity to invent the WIRELESS
TELEGRAPH (radio)

How else was electric used?
Electricity could be used for more than communication…
1879
THOMAS EDISON invented the electric
LIGHT BULB
1882
The first central power station appears
Soon, electric generators will run factories and power machines

Essential Question
What new technologies contributed to the Industrial Revolution?

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