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    businesses soon embraced the advancement, and today everything from oat to coffins is made on all different mechanical production systems. Most things people in the industrialized nations use today are turned out rapidly by the procedure of the assembly line, people and robots manage development frameworks using power-driven machines. People from the medieval times work came completely from themselves and their animals' muscles. The Industrial Revolution is the name given the improvement in…

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    Corvette History

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    1953 the sport car went into full production at the GM facility in Flint Michigan, 300 where built by hand and where on the market for a whopping 3,513 dollars a car. Tony Kleibler was a worker on the assembly line and he was given the privilege to drive the first production corvette off the line. Myron Scott credits the name of the corvette, for he was a major contributor, a general manager for Chevrolet and a vice president for General motors. Myron named the corvette because it went into…

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    Similarly to the automobile, Ford was not the first to apply the assembly line. According to professor of the History of Technology at Harvey Mudd College, John B. Rae, “The introduction of the moving assembly line … was a momentous and epochal innovation, but it was essentially the capstone of an edifice that had been rising for over a century” (qtd. in Nye 14). Rae point of view reflects that of many: although the assembly line was a great way to increase production, Ford was not the sole…

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    “Henry ford Created the first mass-produced car” (St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2013). Using past knowledge and applying it to new situations Henry Ford helped change the industrial age. He grew up with nothing huge, just a normal family. He tinkered with steam watches as a kid to develop a skill of engineering at a young age. He used this skill to help him in his early jobs. Henry Ford was the Da Vinci of the early 1900’s as he impacted the industrial age with his vast engineering…

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    Did you know that Flagstaff got its name from a random person striping a pole and making it a flagpole? By the time Arizona reached statehood in 1912, the Babbitt brothers had already started to change Flagstaff. The Babbitt brothers along with many other influential people helped give Flagstaff a reason to be created, why it’s used today, and help find some attractions to keep people coming back. Flagstaff is also called the City of Seven Wonders because it is geographically located by the…

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    In the early 1900s, automobiles were a lavish amenity that only the rich people could afford to indulge themselves into; however, Henry Ford figured out a way to positively alter the world and its views by generating and mass-producing automobiles accessible to everyone. The automobiles that Ford manufactured and sold signified the affordable and reasonable prices of quality automobiles available to all people, regardless of their wealth. Furthermore, Ford believed that by maintaining the…

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    Theoretically, cars are the biggest invention of history changing the transport system of human beings. In the past, there were no vehicles, and therefore people used to walk while only a few lucky ones had the privilege of enjoying a horse ride. There were also horse wagons that were made to increase the number of persons who could be carried. However, in the year 1907, Henry Ford invented the first car model that was referred to as T model that allowed more people own the automobile. The T…

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    Henry Ford was one of the men who revolutionized the United States in many ways. He was born on July 30, 1863 in greenfield township, Michigan he married Clara Jane Bryant in 1888. Henry ford founded the ford motor company in 1903, he revolutionized the use of automobiles by creating cars that not only the upper class could afford but also the middle class of Americans. This caused automobiles to be a more common commodity among most all Americans. Again in 1913 Henry Ford revolutionized the…

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    was audible from the outside. This conveyor belt helped companies, specifically the Ford Motor Company, mass produce products. Henry Ford first equipped the conveyor belt in his factory on December 1, 1913, effectively creating the first assembly line where many workers were given, small simple jobs to complete on each product instead of seeing an item from start to finish in production. Henry Ford amassed a generous amount of wealth because of the new method of production. Some may consider…

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    The radio was invented in 1913, Edwin Armstrong is an american engineer that invented a special circuit that transmitted voices from one place to another. The radio was important because it spread information across the nation to let people know what was going on with the current day world. The radio also played jazz music and children would dance and sometimes parents would too, some old people did like the radio because of it “killing the children”. The radio brought cultural and social…

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