Unit 4 Part 2 Vocab | The Industrial Revolution

parts of a mechanism that can be substituted one for another.

• interchangeable parts

• patent

• assembly line

• scientific management

• philanthropy

a system in which workers stand in place as work passes from operation to operation in a direct line until a product is assembled

• interchangeable parts

• patent

• assembly line

• scientific management

• philanthropy

the process of studying individual people at work to determine the most efficient, most cost-effective way to do a job.

• interchangeable parts

• patent

• assembly line

• scientific management

• philanthropy

a document that gives the bearer exclusive rights to make and sell an invention

• interchangeable parts

• patent

• assembly line

• Trust

• philanthropy

a group of corporations managed, but not directly owned, by a single board of directors.

• laissez-faire

• patent

• corporation

• Trust

• philanthropy

a company or group that acts legally as a single unit to run a business.

• laissez-faire

• patent

• corporation

• Capitalism

• philanthropy

an economic policy in which a government lets business operate without much regulation.

• laissez-faire

• patent

• corporation

• Trust

• philanthropy

Invented the telegraph and Morse code.

• Samuel F. B. Morse

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• George Washington Carver

inventor who received more than 1,300 patents including the automatic telegraph machine, phonograph, improvements to the light bulb, a modernized telephone, and motion picture equipment.

• Samuel F. B. Morse

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• George Washington Carver

popularized the use of Alternating Current (AC ) for consumer electricity in the United States.

• Samuel F. B. Morse

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• George Washington Carver