interchangeable manufacture

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• interchangeable parts — Identical components that can substitute one for another, particularly important in manufacturing. Mass production, which transformed the organization of work, came about by the development of the machine tool industry by a series of 19th century …   Universalium

• American System of manufacture — Production of many identical parts and their assembly into finished products. Though Eli Whitney has been credited with this development, the ideas had appeared earlier in Europe and were being practiced in arms factories in the U.S. (see armoury …   Universalium

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