Across
- 2. Parts of a machine that are identical
- 3. This case reached the Supreme Court in 1824 and helped reiterate trade between states through waterways
- 5. This man created a new harvesting machine called the mechanical reaper by 1831
- 10. He tested his first steamboat design in France in 1803
- 13. It was the first full sized commercial steamboat
- 16. Cloth items made from wool and other furs
- 18. This guy built a powerful small locomotive in the 1830's called the Tom Thumb
- 20. It was a strategy of Slater's which included hiring families and dividing factory work amongst themselves into simple tasks
- 22. This businessman from New England had a very different approach on how he ran his mill he instead used the Lowell System
- 24. The tools used to produce items or to do work
- 25. Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
Down
- 1. This woman founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844 where she publicized the struggles of factory laborers
- 4. A skilled British mechanic who immigrated to the United States after carrying with him the blueprint designs to the textile mill machines that were in Great Britain
- 6. He perfected the telegraph in 1832
- 7. This system was based on water powered textile Mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms
- 8. In 1798 this man tried to solve problems by coming up with interchangeable parts using water powered machinery for guns in the United States
- 9. A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700's
- 11. A device that could send information over wires across great distances
- 12. An Englishman that made a large spinning machine called the water frame in 1769
- 14. The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
- 15. A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
- 17. This blacksmith created the steel plow in 1837 and sold over 1,000 each year by 1846
- 19. This man made improvements to the Howe's design which was a sewing machine
- 21. People who refuse to work until their employers meet their demands
- 23. It is a system that uses a combination of dots and dashes and each combination represents a letter of the alphabet
