Essay/Term paper: The assembly line & henry ford

Essay, term paper, research paper:  History

Ford's Assembly Line By Travis Mooney Humanities

Period 6 Mr. Kuntz March 24, 1998 Mooney1 Ford's

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 househo

appliances 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 co

etition had to upgrade the features of their cars drastically

just to compete. Eventually, other car companies also

began to use assembly lines. 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. 1 and 6 (A and F). New York: World

Book Encyclopedia. 1994 2. Encarta' 95. Chicago:

Microsoft, 1995