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    Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are identical for practical purposes. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly...
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    the mid-19th century: the cotton gin (1793) and his advocacy of interchangeable parts. In the South, the cotton gin revolutionized the way cotton was...
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  • Look up interchangeability in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Interchangeability can refer to: Interchangeable parts, the ability to select components...
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    in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added...
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    the notion of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of muskets and pistols for the US Government. Under this system, individual parts were mass-produced...
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    scale, the centralization of factories, and standardization of interchangeable parts. The defining characteristics of the factory system are: The factory...
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    until the introduction of machine tools and techniques to produce interchangeable parts were developed in the mid-19th century that modern mass production...
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    make interchangeable parts from metal. Precision metal machining techniques were developed by the U.S. Department of War to make interchangeable parts for...
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  • Museum & Library, 1980). "No. 1252: Interchangeable Parts". uh.edu. Retrieved May 21, 2020. "Interchangeable Parts". HISTORY. Retrieved May 21, 2020. "Thomas...
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  • part, is an interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or refurbishment of defective equipment/units. Spare parts are an important...
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    other tools for manual drafting were often packaged as a set with interchangeable parts. By the mid-twentieth century, circle templates supplemented the...
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    America. Colt's manufacturing methods were sophisticated. His use of interchangeable parts helped him become one of the first to use the assembly line efficiently...
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  • 19th century. The two notable features were the extensive use of interchangeable parts and mechanization for production, which resulted in more efficient...
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    numerous technological innovations of global importance, including interchangeable parts, the assembly line style of mass production, and modern business...
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    inherent precision, machine tools enabled the economical production of interchangeable parts. Many historians of technology consider that true machine tools...
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    corporation suffered quality problems in production. Making firearms with interchangeable parts was still rather new (it had reached commercial viability only about...
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  • of machine parts, in the maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with interchangeable parts, refers to the practice of removing parts or subsystems...
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    Oldsmobile in 1901. Olds pioneered the assembly line using identical, interchangeable parts, producing thousands of Oldsmobiles by 1903. Although sources differ...
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  • considered sacred. Boyd Coddington Brain implant Bundle theory Haecceity Interchangeable parts Mereological essentialism Neurath's boat Perdurantism Philosophy...
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    several engines of the two generations share a large number of interchangeable parts. Gen V engines do not share as much with the previous two, although...
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    American gas-powered automobile, and the first machining lathe for interchangeable parts; "The City of Homes", due to its Victorian residential architecture;...
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    associated with interchangeable parts were Eli Whitney and Simeon North. Although Whitney was not able to make interchangeable parts, he was a proponent...
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    is largely an improved version of the Generation I, having many interchangeable parts and dimensions. Later generation engines have only the rod bearings...
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    the Elite Wireless Controller, a premium version that includes interchangeable parts and programmability features. In turn, each of the aforementioned...
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  • and information technology. Other examples include the railroad, interchangeable parts, electronics, material handling, mechanization, control theory (automation)...
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    machine tool industry, the development of methods for manufacturing interchangeable parts, as well as the invention of the Bessemer process and open hearth...
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    the first to accomplish Interchangeable parts in the clock industry. Milling wooden parts was efficient in interchangeable parts, but inefficient in high...
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    inherent precision, machine tools enabled the economical production of interchangeable parts. Examples of machine tools include: Broaching machine Drill press...
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  • on linear dimensions. Such code systems may be used to produce interchangeable parts. In engineering, the word tolerance refers to a range of allowable...
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    automobile, meaning that it was built on an assembly line using interchangeable parts. It was introduced by the Oldsmobile company in 1901 and produced...
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