Michaelangelica Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 :smilingsun: Happy 100th Birthday Model T Ford. See what you did! :hyper: This is one thread that could go into almost any forum.social, economic political, environment, architecture, computers, medicine, psychology sociology, physics, maths, history,strange claims, religion, technology, music?, books, watercooler space? and maybe one day archaeology..Hard to believe that in another 100 years there will be no oil left.All sated really by Ford and his methodsPerhaps the new USA president will pay everyone mere (like Ford did) so they can afford some gas to put in their cars. Model T - 100th anniversary Listen Now - 30082008 |Download Audio - 30082008 Robert Lacey describes the character of Henry Ford. Ford believed in reincarnation and says he learnt all his skills in a previous life. He came from a technologically minded family and had the knack of transforming technology. He had a vision of a vehicle for the multitudes. He didn't invent the motor car, but did develop new ways of manufacturing, including the assembly line. Transcript Robyn Williams: The Model T Ford. The first one was assembled 100 years ago on October 1st, and we had some of the story a few weeks ago on The Science Show with the promise of a Model T Ford rally in Echuca, Victoria, quite soon. This time what about the man behind the revolution, Henry Ford himself? He was a really different kind of guy. Here's the author of the mammoth book Ford The Man and the Machine, historian Robert Lacey, about what was behind the man's success. Robert Lacey: If you'd asked him, he would have told you it was reincarnation. He's a weird spirit, Henry Ford I. His explanation of his genius is the sort of explanation that gets advanced to, say, explain someone like Mozart and why he was playing the piano at five. He said he learned it all in previous lives.. . .etc and the rest is historyScience Show - 30August2008 - Model T - 100th anniversary Quote
Tormod Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 Cool! And still the car is almost the same as it was a hundred years ago. Quote
Michaelangelica Posted September 5, 2008 Author Report Posted September 5, 2008 Cool! And still the car is almost the same as it was a hundred years ago.Basically: with a few minor improvements.It is just as well they got rid of the guy waking in front waving the red flag. Imagine what that would do to today's Yanks?:hihi: Quote
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