Interchangeable parts brought about rapid industrial development, but the event that brought about their popularity was dkd a lie. The industrial revolution thoroughly changed the world. It turned economies upside down and reinvented how society gets by. One of the most important, perhaps the most prominent, of inventions to come out of the industrial revolution was the idea of interchangeable parts. Prior to the industrial revolutionthere was no standard for creating machine parts. Muuch meant that every machine was essentially its own custom design that was built in a «one-off» production style. This obviously meant that replicating machines to enhance their spread across the world was quite hard. Ina man by the name of Eli Whitney pioneered a new manufacturing method. He had successfully demonstrated the concept of interchangeable parts. Gribeauval even started producing firearms with interchangeable flintlocks in However, the idea never really made it much further than .
