USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -interchangeable parts, identical components that can be substituted one for another, particularly important in the history of 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 innovators.

Detailed explanation-2: -Interchangeable parts, popularized in America when Eli Whitney used them to assemble muskets in the first years of the 19th century, allowed relatively unskilled workers to produce large numbers of weapons quickly and at lower cost, and made repair and replacement of parts infinitely easier.

Detailed explanation-3: -Interchangeable parts is a basic concept of creating identical or nearly identical parts to be mass produced. These parts can then be put together to form a product. For example, cars, computers, furniture, almost all products used today, are made from interchangeable parts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Things that are interchangeable can be exchanged with each other without it making any difference.

Detailed explanation-5: -By interchangeable manufacture we mean the production of complete machines or mechanisms, the corresponding parts of which are so nearly alike that they will fit into any of the given mechanisms.