| A | B |
| cottage system | method of making cloth in many small houses put together |
| spinning jenny | let one person spin many threads at one time |
| flying shuttle | made weaving faster |
| mills | factories |
| factory system | began when workers and machines were brought together in buildings |
| James Watt | inventor of the steam engine |
| Henry Bessemer | found a cheaper way to make steel |
| invest | put money into a company |
| rails | tracks |
| locomotive | steam engine on wheels |
| freight | goods and raw materials |
| steamboat | could move both up and down rivers |
| industrialize | change to the production of goods by machines |
| Samuel Slater | brought the secrets of the factory system from Britain to the US |
| Eli Whitney | used interchangable parts in mass production of guns |
| interchangable | identical |
| generator | machine for producing electricity |
| telegraph | used electricity to send messages over wires |
| telephone | changed sound into electrical signals |
| internal combustion engine | smaller and lighter, it was invented by Gotlieb Daimler |