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 the idea that identical parts used for multiple goods make it possible for manufactured goods to be made quickly and replaced easily by unskilled workers facilitating mass production. Eli Whitney was born in 1765 in Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1798 Eli Whitney built a firearms factory near New Haven. The muskets his workmen made by methods comparable to those of modern mass industrial production were the first to have standardized, interchangeable parts.