Hi

"Sander Vesik" wrote in message
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much snipped

concept works, practical application
Automotive: Daimler-Benz ( 1886 ) Ford Model - T ( 1908 )

Uhh.. this is gross misstatement of the car business. Ford didn't
really make cars be widespread.

If Ford didn't then who?

Certainly none of his contemporaries. They didn't build cars for the masses,
they were building cars for the aristrocracy. Luxury goods for luxury
people.

Ford made cars in numbers that all his compeditors put together could not
match.

Ford made automobiles affordable to the people who actually worked on the
production lines to manufacture them (and by implication to almost everyone
else).

Ford made automobiles maintainable to the common man, by making them simple
enough for the ordinary man to fix. Before Ford cars had been grossly
complex pieces of machinery that need the constant attention of skilled
mechanics.

Ford made automobiles accessible to the common man by making them easy to
operate. He established a simple set of controls and didn't change them with
every new model. Admittedly his Model-T set isn't the same set we use today,
but it was the set that launched the Age of Automobiles.

--
Sander

+++ Out of cheese error +++


Who are you going to hold up as the inventor of the first practical
motorcar? Certainly no one before Ford produced anything like Ford's volume.
Prior to the Model-T the only complex mechanical items that had been
produced in similar numbers were firearms.

The fact that 90% of the planet didn't get to see or embark upon a motorcar
before 1950 doesn't make the fact any different that 10% of them did in the
decade after the Model T went into production. And the overwhelming majority
of that 10% saw and rode in and would only have recognized a Ford, until at
least the 1940s.

The man had faults (Big ones, San Andres Faults) but he (and his company,
and the several thousand very bright people he employed and routinely
listened to) turned the motorcar from a rich man toys into a workhorse of an
entire civilization. If you wish to claim otherwise you'd better have pretty
astounding facts.

Regards
Frank