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Identify "Troublesome" Words

The great changes of the Industrial Revolution could not have happened without these machine tools - machines that make parts of machines. Machine tools are a key to mass production. Without them, each part has to be made individually, by hand, in the old way.

As machines became more and more complicated, machine tools could make each part according to its own design. By the mid- 1800s, machine tools could make the 5,000 separate parts that were needed for a 22-ton locomotive.

American machinists, people who work on a machine, were some of the best in the world. They built the machines that ran the Industrial Revolution. They were the heart of the American system.

Buckley, 2002, pp. 29