chap 18 Vocab

2. a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence
5. considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history
7. “invention factory” at Menlo Park NJ light bulb and hundreds more inventions
8. an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control.
11. inventor of the telephone
15. pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist
16. Wright credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
18. a piece of land held by an owner
21. the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
22. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
24. a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
25. of a vehicle or other physical object) begin to move more quickly.

1. founder of the ford motor company.
3. negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
4. show or prove to be right or reasonable.
6. a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention/product
9. completely remove or get rid of (something).
10. a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
12. a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, led the expansion of the American steel industry
13. change or cause to change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.
14. important reform institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
17. remove impurities or unwanted elements from (a substance), typically as part of an industrial process.
19. belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.
20. the process of making an area more urban.
23. an establishment or hospital department where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, especially of a specialist nature.