The first car ever: The Model T. The Model T fit more for men who needed to think about family and other passengers other than just themselves.
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Lest we forget the Model T and Model A Fords.
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In 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T. The Model T led to the transformation of the United States: Automobile ownership was no longer confined to the rich but could now be enjoyed by the common citizen.
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Henry Ford's observation about how to make stuff, or the Model T?
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A 1920 Ford Model T had to be hand-cranked to start.
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He also recalls driving his family's Ford Model T to road games.
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T, which was cheap, fast and clean.
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For all its staying power, oil may be facing its Model T moment.
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Henry Ford's Model T car used the metal in its steel alloy chassis.
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Henry Ford made the famous Model T, replacing horses with affordable, reliable transportation.
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The Model T, though, marked an alignment of Ford's abstemious style with demand.
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It was 60 years after the Model T that we had mandatory seatbelts.
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From the Ford Model T to the Tesla, breakthroughs in transportation have revolutionized society.
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Its goal is to make the Model T of rockets — small, cheap, mass-produced.
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Affordable Chevrolets soon overtook the Model T on the low end of the market.
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Would we all be stuck on the iPhone 1, or even the Model T?
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Henry Ford's Model T was every bit as disruptive as Uber (or Facebook or Google).
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They also need to be doing a different ... they're painting the Model T different colors.
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"Imagine the only car in the world was the Model T right now," Systrom said.
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He's surrounded by four dudes who look like they model t-shirts on the internet.
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Musk revealed on Twitter in 2017 that a friend gifted him a Ford Model T.
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Caption: 1908 | Henry Ford's Model T kicks off the modern age of combustion-engine-powered cars.CORBIS
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"With the original Model T, we opened up the highways to all mankind," Mr. Farrelly said.
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It's the white picket fence of my smartphone-toting existence, the Model T of my generation.
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In early 1913, the labor time required to produce a Model T was around 12½ hours.
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The Brooklyn studio was soon gone, as were the Model T and Graham-Paige touring car.
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The Brooklyn studio was soon gone, as were the Model T and Graham-Paige touring car.
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After inking the deal with Fisher, GM was able to work its way toward selling closed two-door Chevrolets at prices that were within striking distance of Ford's Model T. "The rise of the closed body made it impossible for Mr. Ford to maintain his leading position in the low price field, for he had frozen his policy in the Model T, and the Model T was pre-eminently an open car design," Mr. Sloan wrote.
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Henry Ford Ford was 45 when his Model T car was introduced to the public in 1908.
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The first 50 years or so after the Model T (in 1908) was focused on technology development.
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Thirteen years later, the VW surpassed the Ford Model-T to become the most successful automobile in history.
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In Albert's telling, the versatile Model T further de-urbanized the automobile, turning it private, populist, and rural.
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DETROIT — In 1915, as demand for the Model T was booming, Henry Ford came up with a plan.
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"Making More", the show's second act, begins with Henry Ford and the production of the Model-T automobile.
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More than a century after introducing the Model T, Ford hopes to once again change how the masses move.
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Henry Ford launched his Model T in 1908, turning the car from a luxury into a mass-manufactured product.
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By 1914 this cut the labour time needed to assemble a Model T from 0003 hours to 93 minutes.
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The Carver Academy sits a block from the defunct Model T plant, now used primarily as a storage facility.
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The father of the Model T was an advocate for both producing and fueling cars entirely with plant material.
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The satellite industry is undergoing a Model-T moment: Gone are the bespoke devices with 9-figure price points.
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Musk has a Ford Model T, which a friend gave him, and a Jaguar Series 1 1967 E-type Roadster.
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Snook patented this design only eight years after the Model T became the first car produced on an assembly line.
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The New York Times calls it the most fundamental change in automotive design since the Model T. And it looks amazing.
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Yet it was the allure of the Model T for millions of consumers that finally drove the horse off the road.
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Today, Matheny is something of a Model T for cyborgs, wielding one of the most advanced mind-controlled prosthetics ever built.
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Henry Ford released the iconic Model T in 1908, but there was still less than one car for every 7003 residents.
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One is a Model T that a friend gave me and the other is a Series 1 '67 E-type Roadster.
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Under this landlord-tenant model, T&R subleases its sites to tenants in exchange for paid monthly fixed and variable leases.
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Also in 1914, the Ford Model T was suddenly becoming widely available, thanks to Henry Ford's rapidly accelerating mass production schema.
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So, too, is his account of a black sharecropper buying a Model T with cash, to which he devotes three pages.
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It's fair for people to criticize, but just imagine the only car in the world was the Model T right now.
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"Bitcoin is kind of like the Model-T Ford and cryptocurrency is the car industry in its early days," Cooper suggested.
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Founder Henry Ford didn't create the automobile, but he turned it into "every person's vehicle" in launching the Model T in 50.
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Within 10 years of the introduction of the Model T, the Ford Motor Company built the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.
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"There's a famous Chaplin short where they're fixing the road, and he's driving a Model T, and he gets stuck," Irwin said.
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They arrive on Woodward to find two 20193 Ford Model T Runabouts with 20 horsepower engines and top speeds of 45 mph.
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Before them, against a backdrop of yellow taxis and bemused drivers, what looked like a 1920s Model-T Ford straddled the sidewalk.
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A key factor in the explosion of the market was the release of the Model T, created by Henry Ford, in 1908.
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Three players — Georges Vezina, Sprague Cleghorn and Sylvio Mantha — rode with Dandurand in his Ford Model T, which stalled on a hill.
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Bees traveled by steamboat and rail, and once the Model T was invented, they were trucked from orchard to pasture and back again.
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In addition to driving Teslas, Musk owns two gas-powered cars: a Ford Model T and a Jaguar E-Type Series 1 Roadster.
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It's as important as the Ford Model T — and much better looking — and as groundbreaking as the Toyota Prius ... and much better looking!
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Musk has a Ford Model T, which a friend gave him, and a Jaguar Series 1 1967 E-type Roadster, he says, via Twitter.
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Henry Ford famously told people that they could order a Ford Model T in any color they liked, so long as it was black.
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While not as limited as Ford's Model T menu, curtailing consumer choice should help speed production of Tesla's highly anticipated, mass-market electric car.
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Henry Ford chose an unconventional solution for his Model T, which changed gears with a foot pedal, in hopes of making driving seem simpler.
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The oldest continuously operating plant at a company that once revolutionized manufacturing with the Model T, it now churns out Ford Explorers and Tauruses.
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He compared the importance of the Mach-E to his great-grandfather's Model T, a vehicle that brought affordable transportation to the middle-class.
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And then there was a date — and I saw Ken Washington from Ford here — September 1st, 1908, which was when the Model T came out.
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HENRY FORD may have brought motoring to the masses in 19149 with the Model T, but his wife, Clara, preferred to drive an electric car.
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The image of the American factory floor is as classic as Henry Ford's Model T assembly line and just as enduring in the popular imagination.
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The two tunnels connecting New York and New Jersey were built in 22019, the same year Ford's first Model T rolled off the assembly line.
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And so did the Model T. The 1915 Ford, bought a year ago for $16,000, was just the latest antique car Mr. Westbrook had acquired.
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In 1908, however, Henry Ford introduces the Model T, and by 1912 there are more cars than horses in the streets of New York City.
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Noting that Ford's first Model T was a "flex-fuel" car, Rhodes describes how, with more government support, alcohol might have won out over petroleum.
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So he set upon restoring a motor buggy, which was Ford's second blockbuster after the Model T and helped cement the age of the automobile.
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Sexual violence under slavery is as central to our history as the Model T -- so perhaps within the American History museum is where it belongs.
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The car is a 1928 Model A, Ford's successful follow-up to the iconic Model T, and it's likely not Reid's only mode of tranportation.
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Like the earlier Ford Model T, the 2CV, produced from the late 1940s through the '80s, was an example of innovation in pursuit of accessibility.
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Ford did eventually release a version of the Model T with a closed body, but there were other reasons that it was losing its edge.
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The Zephyr Model S and Model T as displayed on the Airbus website The Zephyr Model S and Model T as displayed on the Airbus website The Facebook and Airbus were designed to test a payload from the social network — doubtless internet broadcasting gear — but, since the document covers planning and meetings prior to the tests, we don't know what the outcome or results were.
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Think about the evolution of the car: from horse and carriage to Model-T, from cruise control to adaptive cruise control, and now to driverless cars.
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The Ford Model T. This is more of an honorable mention because although it's certainly the most important car Ford ever built, it didn't change much.
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It's what spurred Henry Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan, to introduce the Model T, revolutionizing the automobile industry and the trajectory of what's possible in transportation technology.
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"We're in the Model T version of the CAR now," said Dr. Levine, now the director of the cell production facility at the University of Pennsylvania.
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"I thought, 'You know what, it's stupid to risk a life for a Model T when there's so many people trying to evacuate,'" Mr. Westbrook said.
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In a way, the story is as old as Henry Ford and his Model T, or in more recent times, the amazing progress of computer chips.
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You know, since Henry Ford in 1908 with the introduction of the Model T, we've really had this notion of one car to rule them all.
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Whether it's buggy whip manufacturers scoffing at the Model T Ford or someone hunting for a pay phone, some people just can't adapt to the times.
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He argued Ford Motor Company's dominance in the early 1900s wasn't because of the Model T, rather it was attributable to the automaker's River Rouge production facility.
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The pair also noted that in the last 100 years, the Model T has given way to Teslas, and switchboards have given way to incredible smart phones.
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The development of the Ford Model T, regarded as the first affordable automobile, and the images of men building cars on moving assembly lines captured the public imagination.
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By 16, she was traveling around the world behind the wheel of a Model T in a life of adventure that was interrupted only by a murder mystery.
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Instead it just signified the letter T, as in the former Model-T Ford, and "is going to" meant will — for a sort of "weave," or fabric, TWILL.
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It did for biology and medicine what the Model T did for manufacturing and transportation; democratizing access to a revolutionary technology and disrupting the status quo in the process.
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It started in 1908 when Henry Ford pioneered his Model T and forever changed the modern world by making car ownership accessible to everyday Americans with middle-class incomes.
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A few years later, Nininger left the stability of his tenured post, bought a Ford Model T, and set out on a string of international journeys looking for landfalls.
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"At the time, Vogue compared it to the mass-produced Ford Model T, which signified quality but also suggested the aesthetics of the industrial production line," Mr. Bolton said.
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Even the Ford Model T, which held the world record for the fastest growing car in history, didn't grow as fast in sales or production as the Model 3.
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"Now that we're on iPhone 11, if we went back and used the iPhone 1 or 22017, it would be like going back to the Model T," Kagan said.
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Capitalism survived the transition from horse-and-buggy to the Model T. It survived the transition from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy to a service-based one.
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Ryan Zagone, Ripple's head of regulatory relations, likens bitcoin to the Model T Ford: since that first appeared, carmakers have produced vehicles in many shapes and sizes for specific uses.
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TI Fluid, whose first contract was in 1922 supplying fuel lines for the iconic Ford Model T, did not clarify how many shares it would sell, or their expected price.
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The principle that tasks should be broken down into small, efficient steps to be mindlessly repeated by employees all day has thankfully gone the way of the Model-T Ford.
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Located in North Philadelphia, the 21948 building was situated without any consideration for automobile access, which makes sense—the Model T Ford hadn't even hit the market when construction began.
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The submarine car appeared in the 1977 James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me." In addition to this purchase, Musk also owns a Ford Model T and other vehicles.
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The company set out to build the "Model T of rockets," something that would be easily mass-manufactured, cost less than what SpaceX makes, but take smaller payloads to orbit.
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Overton was born before Henry Ford introduced the Model T, before the Titanic embarked on her doomed maiden voyage and before New Yorkers watched the first ball drop in Times Square.
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Texas Ranger Captain Henry Ransom and two civilians followed them in a Ford Model T. At some point along the road, a firearm barrel emerged from one of the car's windows.
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"Surveillance capitalism is no more limited to targeted advertising than managerial capitalism was limited to the production of the Ford model T," said Zuboff, whose new book comes out in January.
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Ford has a long history in Motor City, thanks to its Model T, the first affordable mass-produced automobile, which was made at the company's Piquette Avenue Plant, built in 280.
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I wrote for Vanity Fair in 2014 that when the Model T Ford replaced the horse and buggy, for a while, cars were on the road and there were no rules.
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In 1908, Henry Ford produced the Model T. Within a few years a dominant design similar to the Model T took hold and the market consolidated, eventually down to just three major companies in the US. Once Geroski understood the dynamic in the automobile category, he studied other market categories, and realized that the same pattern plays out again and again – in fact, that it must play out in order for a new category to emerge.
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In 1908, Henry Ford opened motoring to middle class Americans with his affordable Model T. Today, the rapid rise of driverless cars offers an entirely new proposition for moving people and goods.
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IN 113, the year Henry Ford introduced the Model T, what he called his "car for the great multitude," the architect Albert Kahn submitted designs for Ford's factory in Highland Park, Mich.
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Henry Ford created the first moving assembly line in 1913, which drastically cut the man-hours required to assemble a Model T car -- from 12-and-a-half-hours down to six.
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He built a loudspeaker by stretching a pig's bladder across a wooden frame and made a radio-controlled boat by using an ignition coil from a Ford Model T as a transmitter.
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Although Henry Ford's cheap, reliable Model T made the personal automobile universally available after 1907, in 1912 Ford and Thomas Edison released an electric version that Ford believed would define American transportation.
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Although Henry Ford's cheap, reliable Model T made the personal automobile universally available after 1907, in 1912 Ford and Thomas Edison released an electric version that Ford believed would define American transportation.
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As the switch from Model T to Model A plunged Ford into loss, Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors, presciently observed that carmakers would need to "adopt the 'laws' of Paris dressmakers".
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Bill Ford, executive chairman of the automaker, compared the significance of the Mach-E to his great-grandfather announcing the Ford Model T, a vehicle that brought affordable transportation to the middle-class.
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And I fall to the ground, beside my rusted little Model T, held together with borrowed string and broken dreams, and I lay there sobbing in the heat and this is my life.
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When we look back even farther to when the horse and buggy were replaced by the Model-T Ford, there was a period of time where there were no rules on the road.
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Although much of the United States' highway system was still relatively new, hundreds of bridges were more than forty years old and had been designed, like the Silver Bridge, for Model T traffic.
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It would put annual growth in EV sales on a par with Ford's Model T—at a time when the car industry is also in a potentially epoch-making transition to self-driving vehicles.
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Len Sherman of Columbia Business School draws a parallel between Uber's business and that of unregulated taxis in New York in the 1930s, when Ford's Model T emerged as a new, low-cost cab.
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They'll be so tech-savvy that they'll make the moon lander look like a Ford Model T. But that's sort of the point; you stay safe and comfortable while the computers do the work.
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The captioning reads: "Ford is trying to roll back these standards, so they can make cars with worse gas mileage than the Model T." Ford pushed back on the ad in a statement Tuesday.
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He lived in a small apartment above the store and, in 1928, he purchased an "any color so long as you-like-black" Model T — the only car Ford produced between 1908 and 1927.
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Ford has been around for over a century, and you could certainly argue that its most iconic car was the one that started the auto industry: the Model T.But the Model T didn't change much.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Richard Arvin Overton was born before Henry Ford introduced the Model T, before the Titanic embarked on her doomed maiden voyage and before New Yorkers watched the first ball drop in Times Square.
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By the end of it, Ray was ready to buy and we're told he went with something a little more modern than a Model T -- like a 2018 Mercedes-Benz Maybach and 2019 Lincoln Navigator!
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Once the film was ready, the group shot dancers in the museum's garden — the same garden where both George Eastman and Thomas Edison worked on film — and Osterman driving his Ford Model T up its driveway.
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Musk's latest of many problems is Tesla's inability to ramp up production on the long-anticipated Model 3, which he had portrayed as a $35,000 electric car for the masses — an electric Model T of sorts.
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The investigation determined that corrosion of the four-decade-old bridge, combined with an obsolete design (it was built to handle Model T traffic, not cars and trucks several times heavier), had caused the critical fracture.
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Henry Ford achieved great success with the Model T , but he failed to change it when it became old-fashioned; his dislike of credit also held back Ford when other producers allowed consumers to buy in instalments.
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Adding to the pageantry, the demonstration will host high-level government officials and also feature a vintage 1915 Ford model T named to the National Historic Vehicle Register by the show's partner, the Historic Vehicle Association (HVA).
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The Detroit region was home to many of Kahn's industrial laboratories, including the Highland Park Ford Plant, where the Model T was produced, along with the Packard Automotive Plant and the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn.
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Besides the hot-rod — a replica Model T with a racecar's engine — he owns a gleaming white Ford Thunderbird, the latest of nearly 70 Detroit-made vehicles he figures he has bought and sold over the years.
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Still, he and Fricker compared old editing software to the horse and buggy, and the new software to Henry Ford's Model T. Epic Games hope to announce much more info at the Games Developer Conference on March 16.
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By the time it went out of production in 1927, there were 23 million -- and about half of those cars were Model Ts. The Model T disrupted not just the auto industry, but just about everything in America.
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"If this rate of growth continues," Tesla announced with Mr. Musk's typical cheek, "it will exceed even that of Ford and the Model T." That's still short of its short-term goal of 2,500 Model 3s a week.
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Built in 1922 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the bridge passes above Detroit's most famous industrial center, once the home of the Model T and the centerpiece of Henry Ford's vision for a mobility revolution.
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The company was born as a by-product of Ford Model T production, when Henry Ford wanted to find an outlet for his sawmill's waste wood, so he invented the charcoal briquette along with a University of Oregon chemist.
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The joyous occasion, which was captured on video by Rossi Bros Media, saw Santa himself arrive in a 1910 Ford Model T and spend quality time with children and families before the 5,000 onlookers watched a special tree lighting.
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In fact, the method that is used to record such figures is as antiquated at the Model T. To unpack this, allow me to cite an example of a product that is known to all Americans, the Apple iPhone.
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In the old days, the Indians led their cattle to the freight yards many miles away on horseback; their wives awaited them in Model T Fords, pulled their saddles off the horses, and drove them back to the reservation.
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As an example of what can happen in the right circumstances, Christensen argues that popular breakthroughs like the Ford Model T, the Singer sewing machine and the Kodak one-shot transformed the American economy by creating a culture of innovation.
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But at the end of Mr. Westbrook's driveway, in the shade of charred pines, a 103-year-old Ford Model T somehow escaped with only minor paint damage, standing out like a museum piece in a vast landscape of destruction.
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Ford has long been a major presence in southeastern Michigan with its headquarters and factories, but the company has had minimal operations in Detroit — where its founder, Henry Ford, built a Model T assembly plant more than a century ago.
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Dimon calls Amazon a "business miracle" — comparing its success to such game changing products as the Ford Model T or Apple's iPhone, while noting that Amazon is unique because it has disrupted and generated growth in so many different sectors.
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Most Americans are likely to think of Ford Motor Co.'s founder as the man who put the country on wheels, rolling out the Model T by the millions off his breakthrough assembly lines in the early half of the 20th century.
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Where the original series made the emphatic point that there was nothing to do within 50 miles of Stars Hollow, now there's inexplicably an elaborate tango club with cathedral ceilings just a quick (and highly illegal) open-air Model-T ride away.
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He shows how Henry Ford's assembly-line innovations rendered his company both dominant and vulnerable: Switching to a new product in 1927 from the Model T required a wholesale overhaul of equipment and processes, costing Ford today's equivalent of a cool $3.5 billion.
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The electric revolution in transportation is as significant as the switch from the horse and buggy to the Model T. In the not-too-distant future -- some project as soon as 260 -- the majority of new cars on the road will be electric.
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"Even what happened this last [presidential] election is going to be considered quaint, and almost like the Model T, when you look back at it," says Eric Newton, Innovation Chief at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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I started covering the global auto industry in the mid-2000s, but by 2010, I had no idea that the most eventful decade since the earliest days of motorized carriages and the Ford Model T in the early 20th century was upon us.
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Washington, DC, had a parking garage in 1907, before Ford produced its first Model T. But the most important innovation came in 1923, when Columbus, in Ohio, began to insist that builders of flats create parking spaces for the people who would live in them.
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Before last night, the Chicago Cubs had last won Major League Baseball's (MLB) World Series in 1908, when (to cite a few arbitrary examples) the Romanovs ruled Russia, American women could not vote and the very first Model-T rolled off the production line.
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More than a century ago, zoologist Joseph Grinnell launched a pioneering survey of animal life in California, a decades-long quest — at first by Model T or, failing that, mule — to all corners and habitats of the state, from Death Valley to the High Sierra.
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But Scott Shepard, a research analyst at the consulting firm Navigant, said Tesla appears to be staking a claim for the Model 20203 as the flagship car of a new mass market, as Ford did with the Model T more than a century ago.
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But Scott Shepard, a research analyst at the consulting firm Navigant, said Tesla appears to be staking a claim for the Model 0003 as the flagship car of a new mass market, as Ford did with the Model T more than a century ago.
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Seems to me that Henry Ford understood that his employees had to make enough money to afford a Model T if he was to do well … Tom BrowneMontreal To the Editor: For me, it's difficult to see how the Finnish system could work here.
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In 1913 Henry Ford brought motoring to the masses by making his Model T on a moving assembly line; but it was Ransom Olds, a decade earlier, who had come up with the idea of an assembly line to boost production of the Olds Curved Dash.
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Tesla seems like the most exciting thing that has happened to the world of automobiles since the Model T. "I have been saying that Tesla is a cult stock for ages, meaning that there is no logical way to explain how and where it trades," Cramer said.
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There was "an Uber before there was Uber," Travis Kalanick said, referring TED audiences to the tale of jitneys, informal, unlicensed cab services that sprung up with the popularization of the Model T and challenged the entrenched transit monopolies that dominated the nation at the time.
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The text was undated, but the childish scrawl suggested it would have been written in the earliest years of the 20th century, when Teddy Roosevelt was president, nobody had yet driven a Ford Model T and an aircraft carrier was a distant, futuristic instrument of war.
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Self-driving tech is less like the Model T than the internet, a creation that, over the course of decades, evolved from a system used by academics and the military into one that so underpins modern society, it's hard to forget that it wasn't always there.
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They are the cart-and-horse lobby railing against the Ford Model T. And while it's fair for the industry to fear the concept of open devices with Internet access, it's also fair for consumers enduring the cable box ripoff to demand the FCC do something about it.
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Though Henry Ford made the expensive automobile popular with his affordable Model T in the early 20th century, it was Mr. Benz, an engineer and inventor, who got things started in 1885, when he installed the almost-one-horsepower internal combustion engine he invented into a three-wheel buggy.
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One of Torc's test vehicles performed a demonstration long-distance drive, making the 103,000 mile round trip from their Virginia HQ to Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit — a symbolic debut voyage to the heart of U.S. car country and the birthplace of the original Model T. Why now for the automotive push?
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Just like the Model T before them, autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize transportation and society for the better, allowing human beings to live their lives more efficiently, safely, and productively than ever before— but only if we maintain IP policies that support revolutionary innovations like those being achieved through AI technology.
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"The rate at which renewables gain share from 220 to 234 matches oil's gain over the 155 years of 1908-23 – years that included the Texas oil boom, the discovery of oil in the Middle East, the British Navy switching to oil, and the Model T Ford starting mass motorization," BP said in the outlook.
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New York City, for example, recorded that automobiles outnumbered horses on the streets by 1912; a year before the assembly line had even kicked automobile production into high gear and a blazingly fast four years from the introduction of the Model T. Clearly there is a discrepancy between the urban transition and the rural transition.
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And in doing so, it will be moving away from the gasoline-powered passenger cars that have been its hallmark since the Model T. "We now know there is a future that we have to pay attention to," he said during his first big presentation to investors since taking Ford's top job in May.
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In my research, for example, I found a New York Times article about an upcoming auto show to be held in Madison Square Garden in 1910, just two years after the introduction of the Model T. The piece expresses undiluted enthusiasm, describing the "automotive splendor" of the event, which was to include over 300 exhibits.
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The sketch itself endures for a number of reasons: Its simple premise delivering myriad laugh lines, the clear schlemiel-schlimazel dynamic between performers, the room it provides for embellishment, and the rat-a-tat delivery make it feel like a ramshackle Ford Model T gathering speed as it barrels toward the edge of a cliff.
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Few technological advancements bring to mind the American spirit of innovation like Henry Ford and his Model T. In the wake of his transportation innovation, the horse and buggy became an anachronism as the mass-produced automobile reshaped our cities, led to the emergence (for better or worse) of the suburbs, and revolutionized how we move goods and people.
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Yet, despite all the precautions that can be taken, they all fail to address the elephant in the room when it comes to driving — the same elephant that existed when Henry Ford rolled out his Model T all those years ago: human error is an innate factor when driving a vehicle that can result in bodily harm and death.
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So why then, Cubs faithful, in a season that has all the makings of exorcising the demon billy goat, the playoff error, the other playoff error, and the 108-year reality that your last World Series victory came two weeks after Henry Ford introduced the $850 Model T, would you be out here tempting fate in the bleachers?
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It is unfortunate that the accounting system for global trade is based on a methodology as antiquated as the Model T. What we need is a new system of measurement that takes into account the value added, replacing nominal values with ratio values to get a true understanding of the relative imbalances in the global trading system.
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When Ford Motor all but eliminated passenger cars from its North American lineup earlier this month to concentrate on trucks and S.U.V.s, it turned the page on a long and storied history of now-defunct but once red-hot nameplates: the Model T, the Model A, the Galaxie, the Fairlane, the Thunderbird and the Falcon, to name several.
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It was Ford who laid the groundwork for the modern auto industry and pioneered both the effective moving assembly line and the idea of mass-market motorized transport with the Model T. The company that bears his name and that's still run in part by his great-grandson, board chairman Bill Ford, remains the No. 2 US car company.
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Suppose it's the year 21970, and a history professor at Yeshiva's Business School is asking her students to name the inventions or innovations that defined the economic terms of the 2100st century, much in the way that airplanes, the Model-T, and penicillin defined the 240th century, or the steam engine and locomotive defined the 703th.
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When Henry Ford invents the Model T, or Steve Jobs invents the iPhone, or for that matter, when your buddy from college starts his craft beer business, we're made better off not because these people will create jobs or provide some incentive for people to spend money, but because they've produced stuff that didn't exist before and make our lives better.
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CAR-T is really a gateway technology, and there's no reason to imagine that those of the near future will bear any more resemblance to these first designs than a Tesla Model X does to a Ford Model T. Customizable variations, collaboration, and creative combinations are a logical response to a this confounding disease; a mutating answer to a mutating problem.
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Common Sense When Ford Motor all but eliminated passenger cars from its North American lineup earlier this month to concentrate on trucks and S.U.V.s, it turned the page on a long and storied history of now-defunct but once red-hot nameplates: the Model T, the Model A, the Galaxie, the Fairlane, the Thunderbird and the Falcon, to name several.
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The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation contains the car industry's greatest hits, from the 1896 Ford Quadricycle Runabout (the first car he built) and the famed 1919 Ford Model T Sedan to boxy '80s minivans and more recent hybrids; also on display are the limousine in which President John F. Kennedy was killed and the bus in which Rosa Parks remained seated and made history.
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Silicon Valley companies including Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple Inc, Uber and Lyft and others also want to profit from information about what people do in their cars, or offer alternatives to the business models automakers have relied on since Henry Ford launched the Model T. Ford's carmaking rivals are also racing to head off Silicon Valley challengers and use connected vehicles to build service businesses.
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A privately held company based in an industrial park outside Boston, it sells fully automated warehouse systems to large retail chains, and the new warehouses resemble the old ones about as much as a Tesla resembles a Model T. The company's twenty-thousand-square-foot test center is a giant cube of interlocking green, yellow, and white steel shelving, tracks, and cages that extend from the floor almost to the ceiling.
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In 1913, three years after the company moved into the building, this would become the first automobile facility in the world with a continuously moving assembly line, and over the next 14 years, the site of creation for millions of Model Ts. It was here that Ford implemented the eight-hour workday and the five-day week, with livable wages for unskilled workers, which did as much to modernize America and rejigger its class system as did the Model T itself.
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