Important Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Across
  1. 4. The process of fencing off common lands, which forced many farmers to move to cities.
  2. 7. James Watt improved this machine, which became a major power source for factories and transportation
  3. 9. James Hargreaves’s invention that allowed one worker to spin many threads at once.
  4. 12. Large buildings that housed industrial machines and workers.
Down
  1. 1. The movement of people from rural areas to cities during industrialization.
  2. 2. A self-propelled vehicle used on railways, key to the transportation revolution.
  3. 3. Eli Whitney’s device that quickly separated seeds from fiber.
  4. 5. Fabric production that became the first major industry transformed by machines.
  5. 6. Samuel Morse’s invention that revolutionized long-distance communication
  6. 8. Eli Whitney’s manufacturing concept that allowed identical parts to be easily replaced.
  7. 10. Edmund Cartwright’s machine that mechanized weaving.
  8. 11. Man-made waterways that improved the transport of heavy goods before railroads.