WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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using the assembly line
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using designs made in Japan
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using plastic instead of steel
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hiring only immigrants
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Detailed explanation-1: -Developing an assembly line mode of production (like Oliver Evans’s flour mill), Ford was able to decrease the price eight years later to $345-$360. Ford’s output grew from just over 32, 000 cars in 1910 to nearly 735, 000 cars in 1916.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ford’s innovation lay in his use of mass production to manufacture automobiles. He revolutionized industrial work by perfecting the assembly line, which enabled him to lower the Model T’s price from $850 in 1908 to $300 in 1924, making car ownership a real possibility for a large share of the population.
Detailed explanation-3: -On December 1, 1913, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes.
Detailed explanation-4: -After more experimentation, in 1913 the Ford Motor Company displayed to the world the complete assembly-line mass production of motor vehicles. The technique consisted of two basic elements: a conveyor system and the limitation of each worker to a single repetitive task.