INTERCHANGEABLE+PARTS

=INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS: Author: Lynndy L.=

In 1787 United States government hired Eli Whitney Jr. to make ten thousand muskets, or guns. Before, guns were made one by one by gunsmiths from start to finish. Each gun was a little bit different from another. A new part had to match the broken one. in 1801, Eli Whitney went to Washington with a box containing piles of musket parts. He took a part from each individual pile and assembled a gun in seconds. He just demonstrated the use of interchangeable parts, which are parts that are exactly alike. Machines that made exact matching parts were soon standards in industries. The invention of interchangeable parts speeded up production, made repairs easier and swifter and allowed the use of lower paid, less skilled workers. The new systems also required a new style of management, with inspectors, an official employee to insure that official regulations are obeyed, to make sure if each was uniform, remaining the same. Most disliked this close supervision.

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