Across
- 1. The tools used to produce items or to do work
- 6. parts of a machine that are identical
- 10. a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700's
- 12. strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
Down
- 1. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
- 2. the first full sized commercial steamboat
- 3. a device that could send information over wires across great distances
- 4. Englishman who invented a large spinning machine called a water frame
- 5. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
- 7. workers on ______ refuse to work until employers meet their demands
- 8. specific,real
- 9. different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
- 11. cloth items
- 13. based on water powered textiles mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms
- 14. Production the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods