Cultural Changes in Technology in the 1920s

Cultural Changes in Technology in the 1920s

• A Look at Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh

Objective

• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT analyze how specialization helped people be more productive.
• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT analyze how the transatlantic flight changed the way people travel.

Vocabulary

• Assembly Line - A process to make things where a bunch of people have a task and together they make one single product.
• Specialization - When a person or a business concentrates on doing one task when making something rather than the entire object.
• Transatlantic - Across the Atlantic Ocean.

Henry Ford

• Henry Ford lived between the years 1863 - 1947.
• He created of the Ford Motor Company in 1903.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

• Ford understood that cars could be very useful for people.
• Ford understood that cars shouldn’t just be for the rich. He wanted to make them affordable for the lower and middle classes as well.
• However, cars were still very expensive when Ford started thinking about how useful cars truly were.
• Cars could be useful!

Henry Ford

• What do you think Ford tried and eventually was able to do to get cars in the hands of normal Americans?

Henry Ford

• MAKE CARS CHEAPER!
• Wait.....How do you think Ford could make cars cheaper?

Henry Ford

• Using specialization Ford was able to change the way machines were built.
• Before specialization cars and many machines were built by one person.
• He used specialization by creating the assembly line.

• On the assembly line there are a lot of workers, but each one of them has a very specific job and they do that job all day long!

Henry Ford

• Specialization makes manufacturing things cheaper, and more efficient (you get more done).

Henry Ford

• Ford used the assembly line to create the first automobile that was cheap enough for many families to own.
• This car was called the Model - T. It was developed in 1908 and was sold for $825. By 1916 it sold for only $360!

Model - T

Henry Ford

• Why was Ford able to sell the Model - T so cheaply?

Henry Ford

• Henry Ford’s creation of the assembly line changed how people make things in factories.
• Henry Ford’s cheap car, the Model - T, changed how people got from one place to another place.

• Many companies started using the assembly line to make things quicker.
• Many companies became specialized, meaning they started doing producing (making) one kind of good or service.
• When you are specialized you are able to increase the amount of things people can produce (make)

Charles Lindbergh

• Charles Lindbergh lived between 1902 - 1974.
• Charles Lindbergh was famous because he was the first person in the world to ever make a transatlantic flight.

Charles Lindbergh

The Competition

• In 1919 a rich Frenchman named Raymond Orteig said he would give $25,000 to the first person to fly a plane from New York to Paris.9 ($25,000 in 1919 = $1,000,000) today!

Charles Lindbergh

• Lindbergh had enjoyed aviation his whole life, so he decided to go after the big prize!
• Tough decision
• 4 men had died attempting this amazing challenge in the past!

Lindbergh

• On May 20 - 21, 1927, Lindbergh successfully flew across the Atlantic Ocean!
• It only took him 33.5 hours

Charles Lindbergh

• How did he fly from New York to Paris?

Spirit of St. Louis

Charles Lindbergh

• Lindbergh took the Wright Brother’s invention and showed the world that it was possible to fly across major oceans.
• Lindbergh forever changed how people get places and travel!
• Lindbergh made the world smaller!

Key Points

• Henry Ford helped created the assembly line.
• The assembly line worked well because of specialization.
• Specialization helps to make things cheaper to produce.
• Charles Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic ocean in an airplane.