Manufacturing 1900-Present

By johnsonow

  • JP Morgan founds US-Steel becomes a very rich man.

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    Theodore Roosevelt was president

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    William Howard Taft was president

  • Henry Ford invented the assembly line

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    Woodrow Wilson was president

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt was president

  • FLSA is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • American enters World War II

  • 1950’s

    CAD merges computers and manufacturing
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    John F. Kennedy was president

  • 1970

    OSHA is enacted

  • 1981

    IMB unveils the first personal computer for homes abs offices.

  • 1992

    3D printing is first starting to be used.

  • 2002

    Enterprise integration act. It laid the ground work for the era of smart manufacturing that drives this sector today. It authorized the sprawling National Institute of Standards and Technology.

  • 2019

    Robotics and automation are taking over the manufacturing industry by storm replacing jobs that are east to do that robots can do faster and more precise.

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