Causes of the Industrial Revolution

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Causes of the Industrial Revolution

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Interchangeable Parts

• Identical parts that can be substituted in the
  manufacture or repair of a product
• Invented by Eli Whitney to make muskets for the
  U.S. government

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Assembly Lines

• Each worker adding one part in order to create a
  finished product
• Used first in Lowells textile (clothes)
  factories
• Resulted in the construction of factories across
  the Northern U.S.

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Inventions

• Eli Whitney Cotton gin
• Elias Howe Sewing Machine
• Robert Fulton Steam Boat
• Francis Cabot Lowell and Samuel Slater Assembly
  lines and factories