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1. It became a problem

2. A substance composed of two or more metals - or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal - intimately mixed - as by fusion or Electro- deposition.

3. A representation - generally in miniature - to show the construction or appearance of something; a simplified representation of a system or phenomenon - as in the sciences or economics - with any hypothesis required to describe the system or explain

4. Allowed the substitution of animal power for human power.

5. The practical application of science to commerce or industry. Generally takes the form of an artifact.

6. Major technological developments

7. A new - useful process - machine - improvement - ect. - that did not exist previously and is recognized as the product as the product of some unique intuition of genius - as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.

8. The domestication of plants and animals.

9. Led to an increase in the ownership of private property.

10. Important technology

11. A person who organizes and manages any enterprise - especially a business - usually with considerable initiative and risk

12. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social - ethnic - or age group

13. The iron age

14. To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained; to obtain or refine (metal) in this way.

15. An assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole

16. Flourished during the industrial revolution

17. An object produced or shaped by human craft.

18. The exchange of one thing for another of more of less value - especially to affect a compromise

19. A system of moral principals

20. Increased as a power source during instrialization

21. Knowledge of principals and causes; especially - such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena - the nature - constitution - and forces of matter - the qualities and functions of living tissues - etc.

22. A new way of doing something; an improvement on an existing form - composition or processes.

23. The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

24. Something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; those morals - ethnics - habits - ect. - established by an authority - custom - or an individual as an acceptable.

25. A highly structured system of human organization for large- scale community living that normally furnishes protection - continuity - security - and a national identity for its members