1. What inventions helped transform America?
NOV 14, 2012 R.A.W.
Why do you want to drive?
AIM: 27
What inventions helped transform America?

2. POSITIVES

3. Negatives???

5. I. Henry Ford A man with an idea:
Build a car affordable to all Americans.
Cars before had been only for the rich.
Ford was a farmer’s son

6. Ford was a runner long before running was popular.
A vegetarian he would eat grass sandwiches.
“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.”

7. Ford paid his workers very well.
$5.00 a day when the average American made $2.40 a day.
Keep workers happy they will work.
Buy Ford cars!!

8. II. The Assembly Line
Ford’s idea for building cheap cars is on an assembly line.
Interchangeable parts allow ford to build cars fast.
CHEAP!!
The Model T.

13. The first model Ts cost about $800.
By the 1920’s Model Ts cost around $600
All model Ts were exactly alike so they were easy to repair.

14. III. Impact of Ford’s Cars
Allows all Americans to have a car.
Helps create the suburbs. People can now travel to work great distances.
Freedom!
Helps middle class catch up to the rich.

15. IV. Negative Impact of Assembly Line
BORING!!! Doing the same thing over and over.
Requires no skill.
Dehumanizes workers.

26. “GENIUS IS 1% INSPERATION AND 99% PERSPERTION” Thomas Edison

27. Edison

28. George Eastman

41. TODAY

44. George Eastman

46. America prior to the shift towards Business & Industry
1600s-Civil War

47. NYC, 1900

48. NYC, 1900

50. Made with Carnegie Steel

51. What late 19th C. Industries do you still see??

52. Henry Ford

55. Edison

56. Cornelius Vanderbilt

60. How did Henry Ford change America?
NOV 28, 2006 R.A.W.
How did Henry Ford change America?
AIM:29
How did new inventions change the U.S.?

61. IV. Were they Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
Robber Baron: A person that uses illegal means to control an industry and wipe out competition.
Captain of Industry: A person that creates jobs and helps the economy of a country.