Ford’s Assembly Line By Travis Mooney Humanities Period 6 Mr. Kuntz March 24, 1998 Mooney 1 Ford ” assembly Line The assembly line has changed the world as drastically as it has been changed by the world since it began. It brought people together to work as a group toward all achieving the same goal. Henry Ford was only aiming to bring cars into the homes of the average citizen when he made the most significant to the assembly line since its inventor, Eli Whitney.
Henry Ford not only achieved this goal, but his legacy is still carried on today. Assembly lines of cars as well as many other have helped shape the twenty-first century. The assembly line has brought together many workers together to work only on their specific part of a car, therefore building them much faster. This is done using many separate steps.
First, the parts of the car are made, and the frame is placed on a conveyor belt. Workers are stationed along the belt to form an assembly line. As the conveyor belt moves the car, each worker performs a task that they are specialized in. Each worker must perform their task quickly and precisely, because f one worker stops, the entire line will have to either slow down or stop completely to wait.
The modern assembly line as we know it would not exist without the contributions of Henry Ford. Ford was born in 1863. In 1903, at the age of forty, he founded Ford Motor Company. He Mooney 2 began the use of the car assembly line that is now commonplace by using it to build the famed model-T in 1908. When Ford began putting the mass-produced cars on the market, they could offer their cars for so much less than their competition that the had to upgrade the features of their cars drastically just to compete. Eventually, other car companies also began to use assembly lines.
The Essay on Ford Workers Henry Day
The Ford Motor Company led what has been called a revolution. Henry Ford restructured everything from the salaries of employees to the work ethic they demonstrated. He did numerous things that were considered absurd and unrealistic at the time. This included the introduction of the $5. 00 work day, and with this the desire to control his workers lives. In a way he did this for the better of the ...
Ford began to falter and was passed in sales by Oldsmobile in 1927. Ford had to come up with a new sales pitch in time to avert disaster. Later that same year, Ford began rolling the model-A off of their assembly lines. The automobile age had begun, and there was a car parked in front of almost every home in the post-depression United States. In conclusion, the automobile assembly line helped launch the US into the twentieth century. The assembly line has made a profound impact on not only the United States, but on the entire world.
It has brought not only cars, but electric appliances and many other products into the homes of people who otherwise could never have afforded them. The operation of the assembly line has also been changed profoundly by the world. It is now being operated by machines and computers, or be power by solar energy. The assembly line is now enabling factories to make new types of technology. These technologies change the world. The change in the world alters Mooney 3 the operation of the assembly line, and the assembly line again enables factories to make new types of technology.
This forms a cycle of continuous technological advances, which will continue as long as the assembly line is used. Works Cited 1. World Book Encyclopedia. Vol.
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