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| 309992825 | Industrial Revolution | the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850 | 0 | |
| 309992826 | agricultural revolution | A time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster. The production of food rose dramatically | 1 | |
| 309992827 | mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) | 2 | |
| 309992828 | Josiah Wedgwood | An English maker of pottery and china, he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset | 3 | |
| 309992829 | division of labor | Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers | 4 | |
| 309992830 | mechanization | use of automatic machinery to increase production | 5 | |
| 309992831 | Richard Arkwright | English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the early Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame, a machine that, with minimal human supervision, could spin several threads at once | 6 | |
| 309992832 | Crystal Palace | Building erected in Hyde Park, London, for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass, like a gigantic greenhouse, it was a symbol of the industrial age | 7 | |
| 309992833 | steam engine | external-combustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder | 8 | |
| 309992834 | James Watt | Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) | 9 | |
| 309992835 | electric telegraph | A device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s and replaced telegraph systems that utilized visual signals such as semaphores | 10 | |
| 309992836 | laissez faire | the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs | 11 | |
| 309992837 | mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 12 | |
| 309992838 | positivism | a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation | 13 |
