Across
- 6. the development of commercial enterprise
- 9. he made the first steam engine
- 11. a large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods
- 14. An area or region outside of town or in the countryside
- 15. an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product.
- 16. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds.
- 17. An organization of workers, usually in the same trade or profession, that is formed to protect the workers' rights
- 18. this person invented the first cotton gin
- 19. Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply
Down
- 1. engine powered by steam that could pump water from mines 3X as quickly as previous engine
- 2. identical components that can be substituted one for another
- 3. A machine that allowed a worker to spin multiple spools of yarn at the same time. It was invented by James Hargreaves
- 4. he invented the telegraph
- 5. The machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793
- 7. A group of people that work for wages, usually in factories or doing manual labor
- 8. he created the railroad
- 10. An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
- 12. Communication by transmitting signals over a wire. Messages could be sent over long distances in a short period of time.
- 13. this person created the assembly line
- 20. a type of cloth or woven fabric