| A | B |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing that began in the mid-1700's |
| textiles | cloth items |
| Richard Arkwright | Englishman who invented the water frame in 1769 |
| Samuel Slater | brought textile machine technology to the U.S. and started a mill in Pawtucket, R.I. |
| technology | tools used to produce items or to do work |
| Eli Whitney | used interchangable parts to produce rifles |
| interchangable parts | parts of a machine that are identical |
| mass production | the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods |
