Eli Whitney
Honore Blanc was the first person to commercially manufacture equipment with interchangeable parts. He was commissioned by Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval to make artillery for the French Army in this manner.
The Interchangeable parts were used mainly in the construction of firearms, then spread to mills.
•In 1798, Eli Whitney created first interchangeable parts.
interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
No. Mass production of firearms using interchangeable parts started circa 1800.
Interchangeable parts, popularized in America when Eli Whitney used them to assemble muskets in the first years of the 19th century. The event that laid the groundwork for this monumental change was the introduction of interchangeable parts, or pre-manufactured parts that were for all practical purposes identical, into the firearms industry. He also made the first cotton gin.
The innovation was interchangeable parts, which are the precursors to the computer-age term "modular design." The principle was confined to wooden parts for the most part, although the French gunsmith Honore Blanc first designed firearms using standard (though still hand-made) parts in 1788.
he hoped to make guns easier to manufacture and repair
he hoped to make guns easier to manufacture and repair
1796
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