Industrial Revolution- AP World History Vocab 11

Industrial Revolution

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

Cottage Industry

Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.

Spinning Jenny

A machine that could spin several threads at once invented by James Hargreaves

Textiles

a type of cloth or woven fabric

Eli Whitney

United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin

Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of the telephone

James Watt

Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819).

Henry Ford

Invented the assembly line

Assembly line

a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

Mass Production

production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines