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Henry Ford | an entrepreneur and inventor who developed the model T car |
Model T | built on an assembly line. Sold at low price and all looked exactly alike and the same color black produced from 1908 - 1927 by 1920 half the cars in the world were model T's |
assembly line | Workers stand in one place and put the cars together as they go by on a moving belt. Ford's workers could make 1 car in an hour and a half while it took other company's 12 hours. Ford made enough money to pay his workers $5 |
Detroit, MI | Ford's first assembly line factory to produce model t cars would become the center of the U.S. auto industry |
mass production | making of a large number of goods that are exactly alike one of most popular was the radio |
mass media | public forms of communication to reach large audiences like radio television and news papers |