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Ready-Set-Tech: Machines

Machines

Huxley's utopia removed God and religion, claiming that both interfere with happiness of man. In its place, Huxley set Henry Ford, the father of the American automobile industry, mass production, and mass consumption. Ford greatly shocked his critics, and the public at large, when he raised the minimum wage of his workers to $5 a day for a 9 hour work week (at a time when the going wage in the auto industry was $2.34), and later to the outrageous rate of $10 a day. Ford's reasons were many. He was the son of farmers, and believed that the rich shouldn't be the only people to buy cars, but that his factory workers, too, should be able to buy and drive the cars they built.

As a result of higher wages, Ford essentially laid foundation for America's middle class. With increased free time and more money, more people bought cars and moved into the expanding cities.

Ford's introduction and use of the assembly line greatly enhanced America's Industrial Revolution. By 1914, his factories were able to produce 1 car every 93 minutes. By the time production of the Model T, his first car type, ceased in 1927, more than 15 million cars had been produced (half the world's automotive output).


Henry Ford on his Quadricycle (his first car)

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