Interchangeable parts, the Glossary
Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are identical for practical purposes.[1]
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67 relations: Admiralty (United Kingdom), Alfred P. Sloan, Allowance (engineering), American Machinist, American system of manufacturing, Artillery, Assembly line, Block (sailing), Carthage, Clockmaker, Configuration management, Corliss steam engine, Cyrus McCormick, David A. Hounshell, Electrification, Eli Terry, Eli Whitney, Engineering fit, Engineering tolerance, File (tool), First Punic War, Flintlock mechanism, Fungibility, George Washington, Gribeauval system, Gunsmith, Hampshire, Handgun, Henry M. Leland, Henry Maudslay, History of technology, HMNB Portsmouth, Honoré Blanc, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, James Burke (science historian), Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, John H. Hall (gunsmith), Lean manufacturing, Line shaft, Louis de Tousard, Machine tool, Marc Isambard Brunel, Mass production, Merritt Roe Smith, Milling (machining), Modular design, Musket, Napoleonic Wars, Numerical control, Planer (metalworking), ... Expand index (17 more) »
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Admiralty (United Kingdom)
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
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Alfred P. Sloan
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. (May 23, 1875February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry.
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Allowance (engineering)
In engineering and machining, an allowance is a planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension, or between an intermediate-stage dimension and an intended final dimension.
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American Machinist
The American Machinist is an American trade magazine of the international machinery industries and most especially their machining aspects.
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American system of manufacturing
The American system of manufacturing was a set of manufacturing methods that evolved in the 19th century.
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Artillery
Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.
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Assembly line
An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced. Interchangeable parts and assembly line are history of science and technology in the United States.
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Block (sailing)
In sailing, a block is a single or multiple pulley.
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Carthage
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.
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Clockmaker
A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and/or repairs clocks.
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Configuration management
Configuration management (CM) is a management process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.
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Corliss steam engine
A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after the US engineer George Henry Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island.
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Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.
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David A. Hounshell
David Allen Hounshell (born 1950) is an American academic.
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Electrification
Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and, in many contexts, the introduction of such power by changing over from an earlier power source. Interchangeable parts and Electrification are Second Industrial Revolution.
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Eli Terry
Eli Terry Sr. (April 13, 1772 – February 24, 1852) was an inventor and clockmaker in Connecticut.
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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
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Engineering fit
Engineering fits are generally used as part of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing when a part or assembly is designed.
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Engineering tolerance
Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in.
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A file is a tool used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece.
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First Punic War
The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC.
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Flintlock mechanism
The flintlock mechanism is a type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
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Fungibility
In economics and law, fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are essentially interchangeable.
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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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Gribeauval system
The Gribeauval system (French: système Gribeauval) was an artillery system introduced by Lieutenant General Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval during the 18th century.
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Gunsmith
A gunsmith is a person who repairs, modifies, designs, or builds guns.
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Hampshire
Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Handgun
A handgun is a firearm designed to be usable with only one hand.
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Henry M. Leland
Henry Martyn Leland (February 16, 1843 – March 26, 1932) was an American machinist, inventor, engineer, and automotive entrepreneur.
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Henry Maudslay
Henry Maudslay (pronunciation and spelling) (22 August 1771 – 14 February 1831) was an English machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor.
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History of technology
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans.
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HMNB Portsmouth
His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport).
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Honoré Blanc
Honoré Blanc (1736–1801) was a French gunsmith and a pioneer of the use of interchangeable parts.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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James Burke (science historian)
James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer.
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Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (15 September 1715 – 9 May 1789) was a French artillery officer and engineer who revolutionised the French cannon, creating a new production system that allowed for lighter, more uniform guns without sacrificing range.
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John H. Hall (gunsmith)
John Hancock Hall (January 4, 1781 – February 26, 1841) was the inventor of the M1819 Hall breech-loading rifle and a mass production innovator.
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Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a method of manufacturing goods aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and customers. Interchangeable parts and Lean manufacturing are manufacturing.
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Line shaft
A line shaft is a power-driven rotating shaft for power transmission that was used extensively from the Industrial Revolution until the early 20th century.
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Louis de Tousard
Louis de Tousard (1749–1817) was a French artillerist who served in the American Continental Army under La Fayette, and later was given a US commission.
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A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations.
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Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-British engineer who is most famous for the work he did in Britain.
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Mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines. Interchangeable parts and Mass production are history of science and technology in the United States and Second Industrial Revolution.
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Merritt Roe Smith
Merritt Roe Smith (born 1940) is an American historian.
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Milling (machining)
Milling is the process of machining using rotary cutters to remove material by advancing a cutter into a workpiece.
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Modular design
Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules (such as modular process skids), which can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged with other modules or between different systems.
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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour.
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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Numerical control
In machining, numerical control, also called computer numerical control (CNC), is the automated control of tools by means of a computer.
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A planer is a type of metalworking machine tool that uses linear relative motion between the workpiece and a single-point cutting tool to cut the work piece.
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Portsmouth Block Mills
The Portsmouth Block Mills form part of the Portsmouth Dockyard at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and were built during the Napoleonic Wars to supply the British Royal Navy with pulley blocks.
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Preferred number
In industrial design, preferred numbers (also called preferred values or preferred series) are standard guidelines for choosing exact product dimensions within a given set of constraints. Interchangeable parts and preferred number are industrial design.
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Productivity
Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure. Interchangeable parts and Productivity are manufacturing.
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Reaper
A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe.
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Robert B. Gordon
Robert Bryarly Gordon (August 6, 1855 – January 3, 1923) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for two terms from 1899 to 1903.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Samuel Bentham
Brigadier General Sir Samuel Bentham (11 January 1757 – 31 May 1831) was an English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons.
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Screw thread
A screw thread is a helical structure used to convert between rotational and linear movement or force.
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Screw-cutting lathe
A screw-cutting lathe is a machine (specifically, a lathe) capable of cutting very accurate screw threads via single-point screw-cutting, which is the process of guiding the linear motion of the tool bit in a precisely known ratio to the rotating motion of the workpiece.
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Shell (projectile)
A shell, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling.
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Simeon North
Simeon North (July 13, 1765 – August 25, 1852) was an American gun manufacturer, who developed one of America's first milling machines (possibly the very first) in 1818 and played an important role in the development of interchangeable parts manufacturing.
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Singer Corporation
Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of consumer sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac M. Singer with New York lawyer Edward C. Clark.
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Specification (technical standard)
A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Turret lathe
A turret lathe is a form of metalworking lathe that is used for repetitive production of duplicate parts, which by the nature of their cutting process are usually interchangeable.
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United States Army Ordnance Corps
The United States Army Ordnance Corps, formerly the United States Army Ordnance Department, is a sustainment branch of the United States Army, headquartered at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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See also
Second Industrial Revolution
- 1912 Lawrence textile strike
- Electrification
- Interchangeable parts
- Machine Age
- Mass production
- Second Industrial Revolution
- Standardization
- Steelmaking
- Telegraphy
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_parts
Also known as Interchangeability (engineering), Interchangeable part, Replaceability (technology), Replaceable parts, Selective assembly, Standardised part, Standardised parts, Standardized part, Standardized parts.
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