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Henry Ford and the Assembly Line

Henry Ford and the Assembly Line. How did the two combine to change the world?. Who was Henry Ford?. Founder of the Ford Motor Company. Set up his company in Michigan and paid workers a previously unthinkable 5 dollars a day to work on his assembly line! Began mass production of the Model T.

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Henry Ford and the Assembly Line

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  1. Henry Ford and the Assembly Line How did the two combine to change the world?

  2. Who was Henry Ford? • Founder of the Ford Motor Company. • Set up his company in Michigan and paid workers a previously unthinkable 5 dollars a day to work on his assembly line! • Began mass production of the Model T.

  3. What is an assembly line? • The assembly line divides work into simple tasks…and lets unskilled workers combine to do skilled work. • It gives everyone a simple job, essentially doing the same thing over and over. • What are the positives and negatives of such a process?

  4. What was life like before Ford’s assembly line? • Ford began building the Model T in 1908. It took workers 12 hours to build one. • After 1913, when Ford built his assembly line plant, it took 93 minutes to build one car. • By 1925, a Ford car took 10 seconds to build.

  5. How did the world change? • The price of automobiles decreases from… • $805 in 1908 • $490 in 1914 • $295 in 1924 • Now everyone could have a car…and were not restricted to one area. • By 1924 more people in the United States had cars than had indoor plumbing. • “You can’t ride to town in a bathtub”

  6. Now let us watch the assembly line in action…. • The assembly line is great and all, but can we criticize anything after watching these videos? • Charlie Chaplin at the factory… • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbsBcPDVQM&feature=related • Lucy in the candy factory…. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uztA6JCKB4s

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