Cultural Changes in Technology in the 1920s A Look at Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh

Objective By the end of the lesson, SWBAT analyze how specialization helped people be more productive. By the end of the lesson, SWBAT analyze how the transatlantic flight changed the way people travel.

Vocabulary Assembly Line - A process to make things where a bunch of people have a task and together they make one single product. Specialization - When a person or a business concentrates on doing one task when making something rather than the entire object. Transatlantic - Across the Atlantic Ocean.

Henry Ford Henry Ford lived between the years 1863 - 1947. He created of the Ford Motor Company in 1903.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford Ford understood that cars could be very useful for people. Ford understood that cars shouldn’t just be for the rich. He wanted to make them affordable for the lower and middle classes as well. However, cars were still very expensive when Ford started thinking about how useful cars truly were. Cars could be useful!

Henry Ford What do you think Ford tried and eventually was able to do to get cars in the hands of normal Americans?

Henry Ford MAKE CARS CHEAPER! Wait.....How do you think Ford could make cars cheaper?

Henry Ford Using specialization Ford was able to change the way machines were built. Before specialization cars and many machines were built by one person. He used specialization by creating the assembly line.

On the assembly line there are a lot of workers, but each one of them has a very specific job and they do that job all day long!

Henry Ford Specialization makes manufacturing things cheaper, and more efficient (you get more done).

Henry Ford Ford used the assembly line to create the first automobile that was cheap enough for many families to own. This car was called the Model - T. It was developed in 1908 and was sold for $825. By 1916 it sold for only $360!

Model - T

Why was Ford able to sell the Model - T so cheaply? Henry Ford Why was Ford able to sell the Model - T so cheaply?

Henry Ford Henry Ford’s creation of the assembly line changed how people make things in factories. Henry Ford’s cheap car, the Model - T, changed how people got from one place to another place.

Many companies started using the assembly line to make things quicker. Many companies became specialized, meaning they started doing producing (making) one kind of good or service. When you are specialized you are able to increase the amount of things people can produce (make)

Charles Lindbergh Charles Lindbergh lived between 1902 - 1974. Charles Lindbergh was famous because he was the first person in the world to ever make a transatlantic flight.

Charles Lindbergh

The Competition In 1919 a rich Frenchman named Raymond Orteig said he would give $25,000 to the first person to fly a plane from New York to Paris.9 ($25,000 in 1919 = $1,000,000) today!

Charles Lindbergh Lindbergh had enjoyed aviation his whole life, so he decided to go after the big prize! Tough decision 4 men had died attempting this amazing challenge in the past!

Lindbergh On May 20 - 21, 1927, Lindbergh successfully flew across the Atlantic Ocean! It only took him 33.5 hours

Charles Lindbergh How did he fly from New York to Paris?

Spirit of St. Louis

Charles Lindbergh Lindbergh took the Wright Brother’s invention and showed the world that it was possible to fly across major oceans. Lindbergh forever changed how people get places and travel! Lindbergh made the world smaller!

Key Points Henry Ford helped created the assembly line. The assembly line worked well because of specialization. Specialization helps to make things cheaper to produce. Charles Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic ocean in an airplane.