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Nurses and possibly the Captain - Union Steam Ship TSS Makura, Dunedin, NZ
Nurses and possibly the Captain – Union Steam Ship TSS Makura, Dunedin, NZ
Two Edwardian ladies - 1909
Two Edwardian ladies – 1909
Two Edwardian ladies, no information other than the date written on the reverse – July 8th 1909
i cannot even begin to emphasize how romantic signing off letters or postcards with “always yours” is. like… no one ever knows if they would be together forever. we love someone with the knowledge that they might not be in our lives in the future. we know we could fall apart. we still write “always yours”, because we mean to say, “hey, i know you might not be in my life forever, but you will have a part of me still. a part of me will be always yours to keep.” i need a moment
Not Just A Souvenir! Another Way To Enjoy Postcards From Your Travels
Postcards can be obtained all over Japan. They’re great as souvenirs, but there’s also other ways to use them. We’ll introduce fun ways to use postcards at the end of your travels with those sold at the post office.
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October 7, 1913 Moving assembly line debuts at Ford factory
“For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park, Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis–the automobile’s frame–is assembled using the revolutionary industrial technique. A motor and rope pulled the chassis past workers and parts on the factory floor, cutting the man-hours required to complete one “Model T” from 12-½ hours to six. Within a year, further assembly line improvements reduced the time required to 93 man-minutes. The staggering increase in productivity effected by Ford’s use of the moving assembly line allowed him to drastically reduce the cost of the Model T, thereby accomplishing his dream of making the car affordable to ordinary consumers.
In introducing the Model T in October 1908, Henry Ford proclaimed, “I will build a motor car for the great multitude.” Before then, the decade-old automobile industry generally marketed its vehicles to only the richest Americans, because of the high cost of producing the machines. Ford’s Model T was the first automobile designed to serve the needs of middle-class citizens: It was durable, economical, and easy to operate and maintain. Still, with a debut price of $850, the Model T was out of the reach of most Americans. The Ford Motor Company understood that to lower unit cost it had to increase productivity. The method by which this was accomplished transformed industry forever.
Prototypes of the assembly line can be traced back to ancient times, but the immediate precursor of Ford’s industrial technique was 19th-century meat-packing plants in Chicago and Cincinnati, where cows and hogs were slaughtered, dressed, and packed using overhead trolleys that took the meat from worker to worker. Inspired by the meat packers, the Ford Motor Company innovated new assembly line techniques and in early 1913 installed its first moving assembly line at Highland Park for the manufacture of flywheel magnetos. Instead of each worker assembling his own magneto, the assembly was divided into 29 operations performed by 29 men spaced along a moving belt. Average assembly time dropped from 20 minutes to 13 minutes and soon was down to five minutes.
With the success of the magneto experiment, Ford engineers put the Model T motor and then the transmission on moving assembly lines. On October 7, 1913, the chassis also went on the moving assembly line, so that all the major components of the Model T were being assembled using this technique. Ford rapidly improved its assembly lines, and by 1916 the price of the Model T had fallen to $360 and sales were more than triple their 1912 level. Eventually, the company produced one Model T every 24 seconds, and the price fell below $300. More than 15 million Model T’s were built before it was discontinued in 1927, accounting for nearly half of all automobiles sold in the world to that date. The affordable Model T changed the landscape of America, hastening the move from rural to city life, and the moving assembly line spurred a new industrial revolution in factories around the world.”
This week in History:
October 4, 1957 - Sputnik launched
October 5, 1947 - Truman delivers first presidential speech on TV
October 6, 1926 - Babe Ruth sets World Series record
October 7, 1780 - Battle of King’s Mountain
October 8, 1871 - Great Chicago Fire begins
October 9, 1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
October 10, 1845 - US Naval Academy opens
Thispostcard showing an Assembly Line of the Ford Motor Company in the 1920s can be found in the online collection of the Detroit Historical Society.
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