1. How did Henry Ford change the world?
NOV 22, 2013 R.A.W.
Who was the steal guy?
Oil?
AIM: 24
How did Henry Ford change the world?

3. POSITIVES

4. Negatives???

6. 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

7. “Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.”
--Henry Ford

9. Ford was a runner long before running was popular.
A vegetarian he would eat grass sandwiches.

11. 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!!

12. 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.

22. I. Thomas Edison The Wizard Of Menlo Park
First workable lightbulb in n1879.
Built power plants to transmit electricity.
George Westinghouse builds transformers to send cheap electricity long distances.

23. Phonograph
Motion picture projector
The telephone transmitter,
The storage battery

24. Edison

30. I. 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.

32. II. 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.

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

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

38. George Eastman

51. TODAY

54. George Eastman

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

57. NYC, 1900

58. NYC, 1900

60. Made with Carnegie Steel

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

62. Henry Ford

64. Edison

65. Cornelius Vanderbilt

69. 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.?

70. 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.