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Actually, The First Car…

Posted on January 29, 2024 by Caryn

In the United States, at least, many of us equate the first car to Henry Ford, but in reality, that is not the case. In fact, the first car wasn’t built in the United States at all. Henry Ford made great strides in the automobile industry, to be sure, but he didn’t start it all. Continue reading →

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Five-Dollar Day

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Caryn

These days, everyone is fighting for a higher minimum wage, but in may years gone by, people were happy to get what little they were given. The Great Depression was one of those times for sure, but there were others. On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford and his vice president James Couzens Continue reading →

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Ford’s Assembly Line

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Caryn

These days, so many things are automated, that we hardly know how to work in an environment that requires us to hand build everything. Machines often make most of the things we buy, but it wasn’t always so. In the … Continue reading →

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The Flying Washboard

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Caryn

In the early history of airplanes, they were used for things like mail. No one had really considered other uses, or if they did, the idea was far in the future in the minds of most people. Nevertheless, there was … Continue reading →

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The Original ATV

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Caryn

Henry Ford has long been credited for building the first automobile, but what I find interesting and even a little bit funny, is the fact that in reality, that first vehicle, introduced on this day, June 4, 1896, was called … Continue reading →

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