mass production

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mass production

Modern times

A hapless factory worker cracks under the strain of his job and runs amok. Unemployed on the streets of Depression America, he joins forces with a young woman fleeing the childcare authorities, and they embark on a misadventure-filled search for happiness.

Assembly Line

1996
Presents the history of the assembly line--the symbol of industrial superiority that transformed nations and transfixed the world.

The people's tycoon

Henry Ford and the American century
2006
Presents a biography of Henry Ford that examines his childhood and early work on automobiles, his development of the Model T and Model A, establishment of the first assembly line, and his controversial personal and private life.

The people's tycoon

Henry Ford and the American century
2005
Presents a biography of Henry Ford examining his childhood and early work on automobiles, his development of the Model T and Model A, establishment of the first assembly line, as well as his sometimes controversial personal and private life.

Henry Ford and mass production

an inventor builds a car that millions can afford
1973
The life of Henry Ford emphasizing the creation and growth of the Ford Motor Company and its impact on the American economy.

Maker of machines

a story about Eli Whitney
2004
Looks at the life and accomplishments of Eli Whitney, the eighteenth-century inventor who revolutionized cotton production in the South with his creation of the cotton gin, and who later designed machines for the mass production of muskets.
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