click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
ch 7 roaring 20ś
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Henry Ford | an entrepreneur and inventor who developed the Model T car |
Model T | built on an assembly line. Sold at a low price and all looked exactly alike and the same color - black. Produced from 1908 – 1927. By 1913, 40% of the cars in the US were Model T’s. By 1920, half of the cars in the world were Model T’s. |
assembly line | workers stand in one place and put parts of the cars together as they go by on a moving belt. Ford’s workers could build a car in an hour and a half when it took other cars 12 hours to build without the assembly line. Ford made enough to pay workers$5 |
Detroit, MI | Ford’s first assembly line factory to produce Model T cars. Would become the center of the US auto industry |
mass production | making of a large number of goods that are exactly alike. One of most popular was the radio |
mass media | public forms of communication to reach large audiences like radio, television, newspapers |