During the industrial revolution, Eli Whitney, while striving to produce and fulfill an order of 10,000 muskets for the US military, invented the manufacturing concept of interchangeable parts. His interchangeable parts were components of the weapon that were so near identical that they would fit into any assembly of that same type of weapon. This made it possible to mass produce individual parts with huge productivity gains and assemble the weapons at a later time as necessary. Prior to this methodology, weapons were created one at a time from start to finish, usually by a blacksmith, and ...
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Jason Lee Hodges1
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