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FordHenry and the Model T
Henry ford, born in Michigan during the civil war, showed great skill with machines at an early age. In 1879, he left home for Detroit to become an engineer, finding work first with James F. Flower & Bros., and later with the Edison Illuminating Company. There he was promoted to Chief Engineer in 1893, where he had enough time and money to devote to his experiments with gasoline powered engines. Then in 1896 Ford perfected his first version of the horseless carriage witch he lovingly call the Quadricycle.
Ford later went into the practice of selling his invention and using the money to improve upon the original. Soon the horseless carriage had evolved into the madly popular Model T. By 1903 Ford had earned enough money through his patens and was able to open his own Automobile Company, the Henry Ford Company (later known as Cadillac). Then Five years after the companies’ founding Ford had sold more then 30,000 of the Model T’s.
Even though 30,000 was a very high number of cars in back then Ford wanted to find a way to produce more in a shorter time span. The way he thought if there were more cars being cranked out onto the market he could low prices to where ordinary people could afford. To achieve this, Ford became one of the first men to adapt the assembly line into his factories.
This linear assembly process, or assembly line, allowed unskilled workers in factories to add simple parts to a product. As all the parts were already made or interchangeable parts, one worker would assemble one part of the final product while a second worker would do another and so forth until the final product was complete. Although Ford didn’t invent the assemble line he added to it over the years it was used in his factories. This in turn making his productivity more efficient.
With the adoption of the assemble line in his factories Ford then went on to single handedly increased then number of registered cars by 15 billion during the 1920s.
The lost generation
Shortly after the surrender of the Central Powers during World War I a class of young people rose from the rubble to form new literary movements that reflected the hopeless left in them from the passing war. These people were called the Lost Generation.
Ernest Hemingway when he quoted his colleges term in his novel The Sun Also Rises. The term itself was coined by Gertrude Stein by was later made popular they both used it to describe a group of new writers who believed that they were trapped in a greedy materialistic world that lacked moral values.
The truth was that with the completion of one war and a new war becoming ever more likely the people of the 1920’s felt that the prospect of peace was a hopeless prospect. For this reason, the generation is also known as the World War I Generation or the Roaring 20s Generation. The writers of the Lost Generation hoped to express their options of the times through their writings. Many of their writings expressed new formats and ideas contrary to tradition writing, adding to such movements as Modernism. Such writers include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein. The favorite target for most of these writes were the rich, most finding them to be shallow and self-centered, reflecting the negative feeling the Lost Generation had of their society.
Most of these writers flocked to Greenwich Village in New York City, considered by many to be the cultural center to the bohemian cast, or the rebels against conventional lifestyles. Others moved to Paris or other parts of Europe they believed to be more intellectually stimulating.
Sports
In the 1920’s sports became a wide spread attraction. Because of the economic prosperity forged in the 1920’s many people were able to focus a little less on work an more on personal gain. One way they achieved his was through shorts. This brought to life a new kind of hero in America; The sports hero.
In many ways legends were formed during 1920’s. The most prominent of which was the great George Herman “Babe” Ruth. Known by many names, including the “sultan of swat” and the “king of crash”, “Babe” Ruth set all time records in hitting, pitting, out fielding and even hotdog eating (when he dowsed down 18 hotdogs during a victory party). But he wasn’t only revered by his records. He got Americans exited about baseball and set the stage for the sport to becoming the greatest American past time.
Another legendary sports event in the 1920’s was the 1921 boxing fight between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. The fight was highly publicized, being the first ever fight broadcast of radio and was classified by many journalists and “the Fight of the Century” and you would believe it seeing as the ticket sales alone brought in 1 million shattering the previous record. The bell rang for the start of the fight at 3:16 pm; Dempsey knocked Carpentier unconscious one minute and sixteen seconds into the fourth round, making him the Heavyweight champion of the world and an American Hero.
Countless other sports legends were bore during the 1920’s. "Bobby" Jones Jr won 13 would championships in golf, Bill Tilden became the first American to win the Wembley tennis championship, a long shot horse named Seabiscuit won the Gold Rush Derby and broke the running speed record for horses and Gertude Ederle became the first women to swim the English channel (beating the men’s time by two hours).
Also with more leisurely time and the mobility of the automobile more people took up golf, swimming and tennis as recreation. Schools even introduced sports programs in their curriculum, thanks to the contributions of collage football legend Red Grange
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Henry Ford and the Model T
Henry ford, born in Michigan during the civil war, showed great skill with machines at an early age. In 1879, he left home for Detroit to become an engineer, finding work first with James F. Flower & Bros., and later with the Edison Illuminating Company. There he was promoted to Chief Engineer in 1893, where he had enough time and money to devote to his experiments with gasoline powered engines. Then in 1896 Ford perfected his first version of the horseless carriage witch he lovingly call the Quadricycle.
Ford later went into the practice of selling his invention and using the money to improve upon the original. Soon the horseless carriage had evolved into the madly popular Model T. By 1903 Ford had earned enough money through his patens and was able to open his own Automobile Company, the Henry Ford Company (later known as Cadillac). Then Five years after the companies’ founding Ford had sold more then 30,000 of the Model T’s.
Even though 30,000 was a very high number of cars in back then Ford wanted to find a way to produce more in a shorter time span. The way he thought if there were more cars being cranked out onto the market he could low prices to where ordinary people could afford. To achieve this, Ford became one of the first men to adapt the assembly line into his factories.
This linear assembly process, or assembly line, allowed unskilled workers in factories to add simple parts to a product. As all the parts were already made or interchangeable parts, one worker would assemble one part of the final product while a second worker would do another and so forth until the final product was complete. Although Ford didn’t invent the assemble line he added to it over the years it was used in his factories. This in turn making his productivity more efficient.
With the adoption of the assemble line in his factories Ford then went on to single handedly increased then number of registered cars by 15 billion during the 1920s.
The lost generation
Shortly after the surrender of the Central Powers during World War I a class of young people rose from the rubble to form new literary movements that reflected the hopeless left in them from the passing war. These people were called the Lost Generation.
Ernest Hemingway when he quoted his colleges term in his novel The Sun Also Rises. The term itself was coined by Gertrude Stein by was later made popular they both used it to describe a group of new writers who believed that they were trapped in a greedy materialistic world that lacked moral values.
The truth was that with the completion of one war and a new war becoming ever more likely the people of the 1920’s felt that the prospect of peace was a hopeless prospect. For this reason, the generation is also known as the World War I Generation or the Roaring 20s Generation. The writers of the Lost Generation hoped to express their options of the times through their writings. Many of their writings expressed new formats and ideas contrary to tradition writing, adding to such movements as Modernism. Such writers include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein. The favorite target for most of these writes were the rich, most finding them to be shallow and self-centered, reflecting the negative feeling the Lost Generation had of their society.
Most of these writers flocked to Greenwich Village in New York City, considered by many to be the cultural center to the bohemian cast, or the rebels against conventional lifestyles. Others moved to Paris or other parts of Europe they believed to be more intellectually stimulating.
Sports
In the 1920’s sports became a wide spread attraction. Because of the economic prosperity forged in the 1920’s many people were able to focus a little less on work an more on personal gain. One way they achieved his was through shorts. This brought to life a new kind of hero in America; The sports hero.
In many ways legends were formed during 1920’s. The most prominent of which was the great George Herman “Babe” Ruth. Known by many names, including the “sultan of swat” and the “king of crash”, “Babe” Ruth set all time records in hitting, pitting, out fielding and even hotdog eating (when he dowsed down 18 hotdogs during a victory party). But he wasn’t only revered by his records. He got Americans exited about baseball and set the stage for the sport to becoming the greatest American past time.
Another legendary sports event in the 1920’s was the 1921 boxing fight between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. The fight was highly publicized, being the first ever fight broadcast of radio and was classified by many journalists and “the Fight of the Century” and you would believe it seeing as the ticket sales alone brought in 1 million shattering the previous record. The bell rang for the start of the fight at 3:16 pm; Dempsey knocked Carpentier unconscious one minute and sixteen seconds into the fourth round, making him the Heavyweight champion of the world and an American Hero.
Countless other sports legends were bore during the 1920’s. "Bobby" Jones Jr won 13 would championships in golf, Bill Tilden became the first American to win the Wembley tennis championship, a long shot horse named Seabiscuit won the Gold Rush Derby and broke the running speed record for horses and Gertude Ederle became the first women to swim the English channel (beating the men’s time by two hours).
Also with more leisurely time and the mobility of the automobile more people took up golf, swimming and tennis as recreation. Schools even introduced sports programs in their curriculum, thanks to the contributions of collage football legend Red Grange
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7:06 pm - 20s
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Henry Ford and the Model T
Henry ford, born in Michigan during the civil war, showed great skill with machines at an early age. In 1879, he left home for Detroit to become an engineer, finding work first with James F. Flower & Bros., and later with the Edison Illuminating Company. There he was promoted to Chief Engineer in 1893, where he had enough time and money to devote to his experiments with gasoline powered engines. Then in 1896 Ford perfected his first version of the horseless carriage witch he lovingly call the Quadricycle.
Ford later went into the practice of selling his invention and using the money to improve upon the original. Soon the horseless carriage had evolved into the madly popular Model T. By 1903 Ford had earned enough money through his patens and was able to open his own Automobile Company, the Henry Ford Company (later known as Cadillac). Then Five years after the companies’ founding Ford had sold more then 30,000 of the Model T’s.
Even though 30,000 was a very high number of cars in back then Ford wanted to find a way to produce more in a shorter time span. The way he thought if there were more cars being cranked out onto the market he could low prices to where ordinary people could afford. To achieve this, Ford became one of the first men to adapt the assembly line into his factories.
This linear assembly process, or assembly line, allowed unskilled workers in factories to add simple parts to a product. As all the parts were already made or interchangeable parts, one worker would assemble one part of the final product while a second worker would do another and so forth until the final product was complete. Although Ford didn’t invent the assemble line he added to it over the years it was used in his factories. This in turn making his productivity more efficient.
With the adoption of the assemble line in his factories Ford then went on to single handedly increased then number of registered cars by 15 billion during the 1920s.
The lost generation
Shortly after the surrender of the Central Powers during World War I a class of young people rose from the rubble to form new literary movements that reflected the hopeless left in them from the passing war. These people were called the Lost Generation.
Ernest Hemingway when he quoted his colleges term in his novel The Sun Also Rises. The term itself was coined by Gertrude Stein by was later made popular they both used it to describe a group of new writers who believed that they were trapped in a greedy materialistic world that lacked moral values.
The truth was that with the completion of one war and a new war becoming ever more likely the people of the 1920’s felt that the prospect of peace was a hopeless prospect. For this reason, the generation is also known as the World War I Generation or the Roaring 20s Generation. The writers of the Lost Generation hoped to express their options of the times through their writings. Many of their writings expressed new formats and ideas contrary to tradition writing, adding to such movements as Modernism. Such writers include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein. The favorite target for most of these writes were the rich, most finding them to be shallow and self-centered, reflecting the negative feeling the Lost Generation had of their society.
Most of these writers flocked to Greenwich Village in New York City, considered by many to be the cultural center to the bohemian cast, or the rebels against conventional lifestyles. Others moved to Paris or other parts of Europe they believed to be more intellectually stimulating.
Sports
In the 1920’s sports became a wide spread attraction. Because of the economic prosperity forged in the 1920’s many people were able to focus a little less on work an more on personal gain. One way they achieved his was through shorts. This brought to life a new kind of hero in America; The sports hero.
In many ways legends were formed during 1920’s. The most prominent of which was the great George Herman “Babe” Ruth. Known by many names, including the “sultan of swat” and the “king of crash”, “Babe” Ruth set all time records in hitting, pitting, out fielding and even hotdog eating (when he dowsed down 18 hotdogs during a victory party). But he wasn’t only revered by his records. He got Americans exited about baseball and set the stage for the sport to becoming the greatest American past time.
Another legendary sports event in the 1920’s was the 1921 boxing fight between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. The fight was highly publicized, being the first ever fight broadcast of radio and was classified by many journalists and “the Fight of the Century” and you would believe it seeing as the ticket sales alone brought in 1 million shattering the previous record. The bell rang for the start of the fight at 3:16 pm; Dempsey knocked Carpentier unconscious one minute and sixteen seconds into the fourth round, making him the Heavyweight champion of the world and an American Hero.
Countless other sports legends were bore during the 1920’s. "Bobby" Jones Jr won 13 would championships in golf, Bill Tilden became the first American to win the Wembley tennis championship, a long shot horse named Seabiscuit won the Gold Rush Derby and broke the running speed record for horses and Gertude Ederle became the first women to swim the English channel (beating the men’s time by two hours).
Also with more leisurely time and the mobility of the automobile more people took up golf, swimming and tennis as recreation. Schools even introduced sports programs in their curriculum, thanks to the contributions of collage football legend Red Grange
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