October 23, 2025
Henry Ford’s assembly line revolutionized carmaking in the early 1900s. He was inspired by “disassembly lines” at slaughterhouses, where rows of workers would take meat off animal bodies that moved along a conveyor belt.
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Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution (1750–1900) forever changed the way people in Europe and the United States live and work. These inventors and their creations were at the forefront of a new society. list, Industrial Revolution, textiles, cotton, wool, thread, yarn, spinning jenny, water frame, spinning
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