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Manufacturing timeline form 1900’s to 2021
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J.P. Morgan co-founded U.S. steel he merged steel empire built by Andrew Carnegie’s Carnegie steel with Federal steel company and national steel company
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Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first airplane flight on December 17 1903
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The Model T a car that most people could actually buy -
Henry Ford invents the assembly line he broke down the production and each worker was trained on just one of the steps along a moving line -
Franklin D Roosevelt signed the Fair labor standards act which mandated standard 40 hour workweek the minimum wage and child labor restrictions -
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and enter the war companies stopped producing consumer goods and started making tanks,plans,and other military necessities
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In 1942 a groups of GE engineers that where know as the Hush-Hush Boys work for ten months to built America’s first jet engines
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1950s-1960s the Computer-aided design (CAD) made machine tools to make precise and consistent cuts not by people but by direction received form computer software program
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Occupational Safety and Health Act requires employers to create and maintain safe from known hazards
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President jimmy carter signed The Department of Energy Organization act of 1977 that created twelfth cabinet level department
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The employment in American manufacturing peaked in 1979
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In 1980 the vision system for manufacturing begin development with character data and code verification that where performed by cameras and machines
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Personal computer is introduced to the Public by IBM
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the 3D printer increase speed and reduces waste by instead adding materials layer by layer
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The U.S manufacturing Enterprise integration act allowed for development of a smart manufacturing infrastructure
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Apple reveled the iPhone paving the way for variety of smartphone,tablets and other smart devices and altering they way people live there lives and companies
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companies like Rethink Robotics introducing robotics like Baxter the ability to combine technology with gestures a whole new manufacturing world begins