| A | B |
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| Industrial Revolution | A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production in the mid-1700s |
| Textiles | Cloth items |
| technology | the tools used to produce items or to do work |
| Interchangeable parts | parts of a machine that are identical |
| Mass Production | The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods |
| Richard Arkwright | Invented a large spinning machine called a water frame |
| Samuel Slater | Skilled British mechanic that memorized the desigsn of textile mill machines and migrated to the USA |
| Eli Whitney | Invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin |
