Looking at the History of the Automobile

Part One of Four - Carl Benz

Answer the questions and create a subtitle called "Carl Benz"

1. For how many years has the automobile been around?
2. What is a patent? The answer is not in the video, so search for an answer online. 
3. When Carl Benz obtains a patent in January of 1886 for his invention, what title did he use to describe the automobile?
4. Who in his family drives his invention in August of 1888? What is "born" from this drive?
5. What did the so called "axial pivot steering system" help solve? 
6. What is the new name when the two automobile companies are merged?
7. What did Benz experience as a pioneer in technology that many pioneers never experience?

1.  For over 120 years
2. A government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
3. A vehicle with a gas motor.
4. His wife "Berta" and the first ever Petro Station.
5. This helps solve the problem that he had with steering his the vehicle.
6. The new company is called " Mercedes Benz "
7. He lived to see his dream to come true.

Part Two of Four - Henry Ford and the Model T

Answer the questions and create a subtitle called "Henry Ford and the Model T"

1. Explain how the assembly line changed from suggestions made to Henry Ford by three of his employees. 
2. Why did workers tend to stay longer and be more committed to Ford's company than other companies at that time?
3. How much did the first Model T cost? For what class of people was it manufactured?
4. The Model T price dropped dramatically. To what price did it drop? Why do you think it dropped so much? 
5. As the Model T became the main mode of transportation, what did this automobile offer people? 

1. They encouraged him to not let the item move down the line, but the line move.
2. Made sure his employees were treated fairly by work and wage.
3. First cost a little over $1000, made for the rich.
4. The price quickly dropped to $800 but then to about $365 ( $7000 our money.) I think it dropped so much because there was so many being made.
5.  It let them go wherever and when ever they wanted. They could travel for pleasure, they could visit anyone. It was the ticket to personal freedom. 

Part Three of Four - Your Video Selections (Two Videos)

The Assembly line: Then and Now
http://www.history.com/topics/henry-ford/videos/history-of-the-holidays-the-story-of-labor-day

     

                                                                                Then 

• Assembly line helped make Americas future 
• With the fist assembly line, to make a car it took about 16 hours but once they started doing it the new way, they could do it in half that time.
• There job got very repetitive making the humans feel like robots 

Now

• Robots now take over the most repetitive jobs.
• Robots take over most the work but the actual workers can control the robots manually.
• Nearly 250 robots doing work humans use to do.

The Rise Of Henry Ford

http://www.history.com/topics/henry-ford/videos/the-rise-of-henry-ford

• First got his interest on building an automobile because he hated the idea of horses and carriages.
• Belived to invent the first internal combustion engine. 
• Once he figured out how to build them, he decided he had to manufacture them.
• The Detroit Automobile Company was his first company then he later made the Henry Ford company.
• Both company's failing he made the Ford motor company and was successful.
• First priced at $900

Part Four of Four - Automobile Timeline

• 1913 First moving assembly line for automobiles developed

Ford Motor Company develops the first moving assembly line for automobiles. It brings the cars to the workers rather than having workers walk around factories gathering parts and tools and performing tasks. Under the Ford assembly line process, workers perform a single task rather than master whole portions of automobile assembly. The Highland Park, Michigan, plant produces 300,000 cars in 1914. Ford’s process allows it to drop the price of its Model T continually over the next 14 years, transforming cars from affordable luxuries into transportation for the masses.

• 1914 First car body made entirely of steel

Dodge introduces the first car body made entirely of steel, fabricated by the Budd Company. The Dodge touring car is made in Hamtramck, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

• 1926 First power steering system

Francis Wright Davis uses a Pierce-Arrow to introduce the first power steering system. It works by integrating the steering linkage with a hydraulics system.

• 1966 Electronic fuel injection system developed

An electronic fuel injection system is developed in Britain. Fuel injection delivers carefully controlled fuel and air to the cylinders to keep a car’s engine running at its most efficient.