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HFMMM_160803_002.JPG: "Exploded" Model T:
No object is more emblematic of America's Industrial Revolution than the Model T. To meet high demand, Henry Ford and his assistants created a moving assembly line that dramatically reduced the time it took to produce Model T's. It also established the template for all manufacturing that followed.
HFMMM_160803_008.JPG: Made in America:
The United States growth from newborn nation to manufacturing superpower was unprecedented in the world. Made in America details how that evolution took place and the entrepreneurs who made it happen.
HFMMM_160803_017.JPG: Ford Motel T Touring Car, 1923
HFMMM_160803_021.JPG: American Innovators
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
HFMMM_160803_032.JPG: Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
Model T Ford, 1908-1927
The Model T Ford transformed the world, reordering the nature of cities and countryside, work and leisure by demonstrating the broad appeal of automobility. Introduced in 1908, the Motel T claimed some notable engineering features, including vanadium steel forgings, and high ground clearance. Its larger significance lay in its being the first reliable mass-produced automobile. Henry Ford adopted and extended assembly-line techniques to reduce the car's price by nearly 60 percent while improving its quality. The Model T became a universal symbol of the capacity of modern engineering to transform luxuries into mass commodities.
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HFMMM_160803_042.JPG: The Ford Method:
Henry Ford said, "In mass production, there are no fitters." He meant that parts were so precisely made that anyone with a little training could put them together rapidly. The moving assembly line relied on these machine-made interchangeable parts reaching the assemblers as fast as they could use them.
HFMMM_160803_049.JPG: Here (seated, left to right), Ford engineers Charles Sorensen, P.E. Martin, and C. Harold Wills are shown in the Highland Park superintendent's office. They experimented with production schedules and assembly lines in several departments of the plant and modified each day as they learned more about how workers reacted.
HFMMM_160803_055.JPG: The Ford Motor Company encouraged public attention to its methods because the publicity increased public admiration for the product, the Model T. Books and articles in journals such as The Engineering Magazine, one of which appears here, made the Ford Motor Company the object of envy by industrialists the world over.
HFMMM_160803_059.JPG: Johansson Gage Blocks, 1923
This was Henry Ford's personal set of Johansson Gage Blocks. Precision was so important to mass production that in 1923 Henry Ford bought an entire Swedish company famous for precision measuring instruments -- the Johansson gage company -- and moved its founder and headquarters to Dearborn, Michigan.
HFMMM_160803_068.JPG: Clockmakers and Their Clocks:
Clocks had to be useful and ornamental at the same time. Clockmakers combined the skills of a mechanic with the taste of an artist. Each clockmaker developed his own special styles in the clock mechanism and in the design of the clock face and the case.
HFMMM_160803_077.JPG: The Difference Between Master and Apprentice:
Benjamin Youngs, a master clockmaster, made the clock on the left, below, while he was in his seventies. His nephew and apprentice, Benjamin Seth Youngs, made the clock on the right when he was in his early twenties. The master arranged the clockworks in an orderly, even elegant way. His apprentice laid out his works in a very complex, awkward manner.
HFMMM_160803_084.JPG: Model T Assembly Line, 1914
This cutaway illustration of the Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant shows the assembly line production of Model T touring cars in 1914.
HFMMM_160803_094.JPG: Made in America:
The Industrial Revolution in America (lasting from about 1820 to 1920) radically altered how things were made and how workers did their jobs. The multitude of innovations that evolved during that time laid the foundation for how we live and work today.
HFMMM_160803_101.JPG: "... a Gargantuan lunatic asylum where fifteen thousand raving, tearing maniacs have been given full authority to go ahead and do their damnedest."
-- Julian Street, Collier's Magazine, 1914
HFMMM_160803_105.JPG: Creating the Model T:
Ford recognized that true mass production involved synchronizing workers, materials, and machinery so that parts flowed smoothly through the factory. At Highland Park, Ford and his assistants started a manufacturing revolution.
HFMMM_160803_108.JPG: When Your Boss Followed You Home:
Organizing workers meant that the company influenced workers' actions off the job as well as on it. Ford established apprentice schools to train men to skills the company wanted. It set up English-language classes to teach workers English and a good dose of middle-class values. These programs were intended to mold workers into obedient employees.
HFMMM_160803_113.JPG: Five Dollars a Day!
HFMMM_160803_119.JPG: 10,000 men applied for jobs at Highland Park after the $5 day announcement, January 1914.
HFMMM_160803_123.JPG: Turning Back Time
HFMMM_160803_126.JPG: Wheel-cutting Engines
HFMMM_160803_129.JPG: Tall Clocks
HFMMM_160803_139.JPG: New Ways to Sell Goods
HFMMM_160803_145.JPG: Burr's Patent Nursing Bottles, about 1890
HFMMM_160803_152.JPG: New Gadgets, New Ideas
HFMMM_160803_154.JPG: Fluting Iron, about 1890
HFMMM_160803_156.JPG: Products and Promotions, 1850 to 1900
HFMMM_160803_159.JPG: Stoves
HFMMM_160803_164.JPG: Electric Fans
HFMMM_160803_173.JPG: Crinoline Cage, or Hoop Skirt, about 1880
HFMMM_160803_179.JPG: Child's Bicycle, about 1885
HFMMM_160803_187.JPG: Sewing Machines
HFMMM_160803_191.JPG: Garden Bench, about 1890
HFMMM_160803_196.JPG: Standing Corner Shelf (Etagere), 1860 to 1890
HFMMM_160803_446.JPG: Uncle Sam Beats All, 1877
probably L. Wagner
HFMMM_160803_449.JPG: "We will dance the Hoochee Kooche,
I will be your tootsie wootsie,
If you will meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair!"
HFMMM_160803_481.JPG: "Kiss of Death" Shuttle, 1917
HFMMM_160803_486.JPG: Carding Machine, about 1840
HFMMM_160803_496.JPG: American Innovators: Elijah McCoy
HFMMM_160803_500.JPG: New Machines, New Skills
HFMMM_160803_507.JPG: Belt Sander, about 1885
HFMMM_160803_511.JPG: Retenoning Machine, about 1885
HFMMM_160803_513.JPG: Hub-Mortising Machine, about 1885
HFMMM_160803_524.JPG: Band Saw, 1868
HFMMM_160803_527.JPG: American Innovators: Thomas E. Daniels
HFMMM_160803_530.JPG: Daniels' Planer, about 1870
HFMMM_160803_548.JPG: Wood Copying Lathe, about 1865
HFMMM_160803_550.JPG: American Innovators: Thomas Blanchard
HFMMM_160803_555.JPG: Rifling Machine, about 1860
HFMMM_160803_557.JPG: Gun-Making and the American System
HFMMM_160803_561.JPG: A Most Mechanical Age, 1820 to 1880
HFMMM_160803_563.JPG: Screw Slotting Machine, about 1850
HFMMM_160803_577.JPG: America's Armories
HFMMM_160803_579.JPG: Samuel Colt's revolvers became world famous at the 1851 Chrystal Palace Exposition in London. This fine cased set of Colt .44 caliber six-shot, or New Model, revolvers was made about 1865.
HFMMM_160803_599.JPG: A Different Angle
Failure, Failure, Failure
HFMMM_160803_606.JPG: Domestic Spinning Jenny, about 1825
HFMMM_160803_615.JPG: Foster's Printing Press, about 1853
HFMMM_160803_617.JPG: Currier Shoe Shop, about 1890
HFMMM_160803_622.JPG: Working in the Shop
HFMMM_160803_636.JPG: Workers to Match the Machines
HFMMM_160803_638.JPG: Unlike many craftsmen of an earlier age, machinists could not rely on the "rule of thumb" for measuring. Some of the machinist's tool remained fairly crude, while others became quite precise.
HFMMM_160803_643.JPG: The mysterious power of steam engines and machine shops captured the attention of many artists who saw them as symbols of progress. As long ago as 1900, however, the growth of huge factories made scenes like this little engine room seem quaint.
HFMMM_160803_647.JPG: Machines to Make Machines
HFMMM_160803_649.JPG: Drill Press, about 1855
HFMMM_160803_659.JPG: Metal Lathe, 1865
HFMMM_160803_668.JPG: Gear Cutter, about 1850
HFMMM_160803_676.JPG: Made in America
HFMMM_160803_683.JPG: Mass Production at Highland Park
HFMMM_160803_694.JPG: People Behind the Machines
HFMMM_160803_697.JPG: "Solidarity Forever"
HFMMM_160803_702.JPG: A thermos bottle, lunch pail, badge, and safety equipment were all some workers had on the job that was their personal property. These are the kinds of things people cling to when work becomes particularly dehumanizing.
HFMMM_160803_709.JPG: Managing Mass Production
HFMMM_160803_716.JPG: Why All the Rules?
HFMMM_160803_723.JPG: American Innovators: Ingersoll Milling Machine, 1912
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Wikipedia Description: Henry Ford Museum
Henry Ford Museum began as Henry Ford's personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far back as 1906. Today, the 12 acre (49,000 mē) site is primarily a collection of antique machinery, pop culture items, automobiles, locomotives, aircraft, and other items:
* The museum features a 4K digital projection theater, which shows scientific, natural, or historical documentaries, as well as major feature films.
* A model of the nuclear-powered Ford Nucleon automobile
* An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
* The 1961 Lincoln Continental, SS-100-X that President John F. Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated.
* The rocking chair from Ford's Theatre in which President Abraham Lincoln was sitting when he was shot.
* George Washington's camp bed.
* A ten-person safety bicycle made in 1896.
* A collection of several fine 17th- and 18th-century violins including a Stradivarius.
* Thomas Edison's alleged last breath in a sealed tube.
* Buckminster Fuller's prototype Dymaxion house.
* The bus on which Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
* Igor Sikorsky's prototype helicopter.
* Fokker Trimotor airplane that flew the first flight over the North Pole.
* Bill Elliott's record-breaking race car clocking in at over 212 MPH at Talladega in 1987
* Fairbottom Bobs, the Newcomen engine
* A steam engine from Cobb's Engine House in England.
* The Automotive Hall of Fame, adjacent to the Henry Ford Museum.
* A working fragment of the original Holiday Inn "Great Sign"
* A Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2-6-6-6 "Allegheny"-class steam locomotive built by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. The Allegheny was the most powerful steam locomotive ever built.
* Behind the scenes, the Benson Ford Research Center uses the resources of The Henry Ford, especially the photographic, manuscript and archival material which is rarely displayed, to allow visitors to gai ...More...
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Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
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a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
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