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Musket
Gunsmith Honoré Blanc had made a thousand muskets and put all their parts in separate bins. Then he assembled muskets from parts drawn at random from the bins. This is the true interchangeble parts, unlike the fraud of Eli Whitney. This system was outstanding and allowed for faster repairs, cheaper prices, and increased avilabilty. Unfortunatly at this point interchangeable parts were as expensive as a hand crafted ones, partially diminishing their importance. -
Eli Whitney
He gets a contract to make weapons, he fakes the use of interchangeable parts and didn't adhere to the contract, and dilivered the weapons 7 years late. However although he was a fraud, he spurred the movement to create interchangeable parts. -
War of 1812
The best gun manufactures at the time Colt and Smith & Wesson, supplied American weapons -
Clock
Eli Terry was the first mass production using interchangeable parts. -
Civil War
U.S. adopted model 1842 rifle and the new arms industry would produce hundreds of thousands of rifles for Civil War soldiers, all from interchangeable parts. -
America top arms manufacture
With the system of interchangeable weapons parts, America outproduced other powers such a as Great Britain and Germany, who soon adopted the "American System of Manufacture". -
Meat Assembly Line
Laid the ground work for Henry Ford and the automobile. Infact, he derived much of his inspiration from these plants. -
Standard Oil
Enormous monoploy that forshadowed events yet to come. Not relavent to interchangeable parts; however inovation and progression which sparked interchangeable parts is surpressed by monopolies -
The tire
Air tires were invented a long time before, but this was the first time when parts became so standarized, anyone could fix their own flats. No reason to go to a technician. -
Henry Ford
Model T, which was manufactured with better parts, for cheaper by utilizing theassembly line. As a result, Ford's cars came off the line in three-minute intervals, much faster than previous methods, reducing production time by a factor of eight. One car was assembled in 93 minutes. Prices plummeted and milliones of Americans could now afford cars. Ushered in a new era in automotive technology. -
Assembly Line
The utilization of interchangeable parts and semi-skilled workers took a firm hold. Instead of having the knowledge to create an entire product, a worker only had to be able to assemble one small part, which would later be assembled by an equally unskilled worker. -
Storage
With the increase in internet speed, local storage is the thing of the past. With a fast interent connection, file transfer, storage, etc... are all online. Therefore storage will actually decrease and move to faster smaller systems, mainly flash memory (SSDs). Therefore replacement of proprietary parts including harddrives will rarely if ever occur. -
Present
Nearly every part today is interchangeable, the only main exception being custom fitted clothing/shoes and those are build from interchangeable template models. In the future there will be a progression towards, universal adapters and universaly aplicable systems. Interchangeable parts are already so standard, stressing their continuation is unnecessary. -
Phone Technology
Progression to open source. Monopoly of processors, race between Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Xyenos. -
AMD surpasses Intel
Due to the standarization of the AM4+ intel will lose their market share. Other OEMs will have no wish to create proprietary systems that require them to have different sockets on their motherboards. In other words they want one assembly line -
Grave Predictions of the Future
Horizontal monopolies will reemerge, through a combination of corrupt government officials, and powerful lobiest. Outsourcing will take over and the hyper inflated US dollar will lead to reduced domestic consumer spending. Through a decrease in the number of patents accepted (in an attempt to spark innovation), only highly specialed parts will not be outsourced. Unfortunatly those are the expensive ones that will be monoplized. -
Outsourcing Fears
The reduction in proprietary parts as a result of consumer demand will envoke an age, in which nearly nothing will be produced domestically. Similar to the fashion scene in Milan, Italy, new products will be debued in America and Europe, then promptly copied and sold for a fraction of the cost. Only complex products will be produced domestically. -
Outsourcing Fears Continued
Only products of extrremly hifgh quality (processors, holgraphic computers and the like) will be produced in North America and Western Europe, minus Spain and Portugal who have such poor economies they will be producing lower class products. Everything else will be produced abroad. The greatest domestic market will be the service industry.