Automation

Part I of Essay
When Henry Ford was starting out on his remarkable career in Detroit, a bustling town which gave full vent to the creative energies of some amazing innovators, the economy of was showing enormous cracks. But at the time, even the most prescient of fortune-tellers would have ....

Part II of Essay
.... he took these existing concepts and incorporated them into a n efficient, large-scale system of manufacturing inexpensive, reliable cars. "I'm going to democratize the automobile." Ford said, "and when I'm through, everybody will have one." (Chase, 1997, 47) Cars have made a big difference in the way communities have been designed. Street layout, the design of homes, and traffic laws have changed as methods of transportation has changed throughout history. Automobiles are responsible for more than half the airborne pollution in the wester ....