| A | B |
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| William Cockerill | He opened factories in Belgium to manufacture spinning and weaving machines |
| Henry Bessemer | He developed a process to purify iron ore and produce a new substance called steel |
| Alfred Nobel | He invented dynamite, an explosive much safer than others used at this time. |
| Alessandro Volta | He developed the first battery around 1800 |
| Dynamo | A machine that generates electricity |
| Thomas Edison | He made the first electric lightbulb |
| Interchangeable parts | Identical components that could be used in place of another one another. Interchangeable parts simplified both assembly and repair. |
| Assembly line | Workers add parts to a product that moves along a belt from one work station to another |
| Henry Ford | He started making Model T cars that reached the breath taking speed of 25mph |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | Designed and flew a flismy airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their machine stayed aloft for only a few seconds and they ushered in the air age. |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | He developed the telegraph, which could send coded messages over wires by means of electricity. |
| Guglielmo Marconi | He invented the radio |
| Corpations | Business that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock |
| Stock | Shares in companies. |
| Cartel | An association that fixes prices sets production quotas or controls markets |
