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Ford Model T - interesting

PCBeachBum

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This is interesting and not too long.


Look at the engineering feat they accomplished to put this together.
Each movement by a single person had to be laid out on paper and then constructed.
Funny; not a single computer in sight; just a slide rule and #2 pencil with an eraser.
The beginning of the greatest generation.
Good way to reflect on the changes over the last 100 years.

http://safeshare.tv/w/ShbgvwazCZ
 
Thanks....

That was a nice link and fun to see where it all started. My grandfather was the first Ford dealer in Peru back in the early 1900's. :bowdown:
 
Amazing! :2thumbs:

We are blessed to have the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village here in Michigan. I love looking at the cars, the first production line and all of the many changes that have taken place over the years. Thomas Edison's lab is in Greenfield Village also, there was a man that never took failure to heart and always continued to strive for success.

Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison were amazing men, like so many others from that generation.
 
Henry Ford's greatest and most profound idea was "standardization of parts". Sadly, that no longer applies to virtually anything today. Cars, motorcycles, toaster ovens, you name it. Parts are not interchangeable today the way they were just 50 years ago. If you needed a part for your Chevy and there was only a Pontiac dealer near you, it didn't matter. All of the parts were the same. It was efficient for the manufacturers, and great for the shadetree mechanics. Sadly, not anymore. My grandfather taught me how to take parts from any old junk car, put them into another car, and voila! You had a running car. Try that today and see where it gets you.
 
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