Interchangeable+Parts

=__Interchangeable Parts__= toc Interchangeable Parts are component of any device designed to specifications. These specifications ensure that they will fit within any devise of the same type. This streamlines the manufacturng process and creates the opportunity for replacement parts. Guns were the main focus of the 18th century.

__Introduction__
Due to the 18th century, devices such as guns were made one by one by gunsmiths and each of the guns were unique. They were never the same but, surly, similar. If one single component of a weapon needed to be replaced, the entire weapon either had to be sent back to an expert gunsmith to make custom repairs or they were thrown out and replaced by another weapon.

__First Interchangeable Firearms__
Honore Blanc began producing some of the first firearms with interchangeable parts around 1778. He demonstrated in front of a committee of scientists that muskets could be assembled from a pile of random parts. Other inventors that began to use this idea included Henry Mausdslay, John Hall, and Simeon North.

__Eli Whitney__
In the U.S., Eli Whitney saw the benefit of developing  interchangeable parts for the firearms of the United States military. So around 1798, he built ten guns, all that contained the same exact parts and mechanisms, and disassembled them before the United States Congress. He placed the parts in a large mixed pile and reassembled all of the weapons right in front of Congress, similar to what Honore Banc had done.

__Lifting Off__
The Congress was hugely impressed and ordered a standard for all United States equipment. With interchangeable parts the problem that appeared with unique weapons, a new piece could be ordered and were made by hand by extremely skilled workmen at high cost. Even though the ideas were lifting off, Whitney was never able to design a manufacturing process capable of producing guns with interchangeable parts.

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__Keep On Going__
= = Interchangeable parts were a really big thing to happen in america. It made fixing machinery and other things a lot easier. The interchangeable parts were really important and have continued to present day. If we didn't have Eli Whitney, then we may have not got so far in advancing machinery,etc.

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