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Video 1 10 facts Over 1200 people drowned as result of the torpedo of the Lusitania as they were heading to the Irish Coast. Among those who drowned was 128 Americans. After this, US was neutral and citizens assumed that it would remain that way. Henry Ford’s historic assembly line had lowered the cost to making cars as well as the cost of buying them. Mass produced Model T came in one color. It was the first car with a fair price of $295.00. Movie techniques became an American obsession.…

restructuring and development of today’s metropolitans. In the 1920’s the Ford Motor Company single handedly brought us from a horse and buggy, to an era of transportation where we had machines powered by fuel transporting us (Module 5 Video 1). The infusion of assembly line in the manufacturing process, was the beginning of an era of mass production for mass consumption, Fordism was born. It took one tenth of the time to build the Ford model T car, than any other car at the…

Mustangs”. For us to completely understand the design and meaning of the Camaro, we must take a look at the Ford Mustang and find out where and why it began. After the second World War, the generation that followed, known today as “baby boomers”, wanted to be different from the beginning of their existence. They dressed different, acted different, and also thought different from their parents. Ford Motor Company researched how this newer generation would want a different…

Henry Ford originally designed a quadricycle which is the base of what most of us drive (Ford History, 2017). In 1903, Ford Motor Company officially became a company (Ford History, 2017). According to ford.com, Henry Ford wanted to keep the company privately traded (Ford History, 2017). However, in 1956 Ford became a publicly traded company, and the initial public offering was the highest in history (Ford History, 2017). There is a level of risk when becoming a publicly traded company. When a…

Bombardier Aerospace grew from humble beginnings when Joseph-Armand Bombardier built his first snowmobile out of a farm sleigh and a Model-T Ford. From that point on, he entered the transportation industry, first by rail, and then by air. Bombardier is now the third largest designer of commercial aircraft and they held 50% of the market share for the 20-90 seat segment of the regional aircraft market in 2005 (Page 5). However, Bombardier believed it needed to compete with the larger regional…

When considering the concept of the assembly line, we tend to think it is credited to Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company, but like so many inventors, Ford just improved the assembly line that was patented by Ransom Olds. Before the industrial revolution, products manufactured in factories were made by hand with a single worker completing a part of the product then all the workers coming together and collaborating to make the final product. At the time, this was the most efficient process. In the…

Ford Motor Company is a well-known global automotive business. It is an American automobile company that established and headquartered in the city of Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford began the company in the year of 1903. Ford’s purpose is to create, design, and sell vehicles such as cars, SUV’S, sports cars, trucks, and even service parts. Ford is in an excellent position that remains to compete for business share in the USA and globally. According to Auto Alliance, “Ford is laser-focused on…

because it encouraged families to travel. The automobile helped people to realize that they don’t need to live by the railroad stations anymore. However, in North America and Europe the automobile became cheaper to the middle class. In result, Henry Ford made it easier by pricing his cars to be affordable and paid his workers enough to buy them cars that they were working on. Not only did automobiles effect the environment, it also affected gender. People were satisfied that women should not…

car accidents occur. For better or for worse, cars have changed lives in many ways. Automobiles have made substantial differences globally. By the 1990s, they had went worldwide. One of the people who helped vehicles become so successful was Henry Ford. He created a continuously moving assembly line to enhance the production of autos; so, they could get around…

The Birth of the Plymouth Barracuda Meet the First Plymouth Barracuda, but Probably Not the Last In 1964, the Chrysler Corporation shipped the first Plymouth Barracuda. It started out as a grocery getter, but turned into a full-blown muscle car when they started building the second-generation cars in 1967. The perfect sized car at the right time in history makes a Barracuda one of the most desirable Mopar classic cars you can get your hands on. Here we'll talk about some history of the…