Industrial Revolution Flash Cards

Merchandise or products

Activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of good in factories

make (something) on a large scale using machinery

A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled primarily by machine

A type of cloth or woven fabric

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour

A machine for spinning with more than one spindle at a time, patented by James Hargreaves in 1770

A small manufacturing business that's owned and operated by an individual or a family, typically operating out of a home rather than a purpose-built facility

The process of making an area more urban (city-like)

A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection