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Across 2. a system developed by samuel slater in which whole families were hired as factory workers. 3. british mechanic that immigrated to the United States after carefully memorizing the designs of textile mills. 5. businessman that developed the waltham-lowell system. 7. set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run. 8. a machine invented by Eli Whitney to remove seeds from short-staple cotton. 10. inventor of the interchangeable parts. 11. new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to 1840. 15. a process developed by Eli Whittney that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same.

Down 1. the use of waterpowered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women. 4. a wide way leading from one place to another, especially one with a specially prepared surface that vehicles can use. 6. a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. 9. cloth 12. region of land that is flat and good for agriculture 13. an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation. 14. region of land with mountains and rivers that are good for facories