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Being one of the biggest car companies today, after ford was founded its first car would be the Model A, This car would be mass produced by the company until 1931
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Kitty hawk, North Carolina, in 1903 the write brothers would successfully launch and fly a plane for a solid 12 seconds before touching back down. all be it the flight was short it was a revolutionary moment that would begin the further development of aviation technology. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies
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being another one of the biggest car companies, they would go on and eventually buy chevy awhile after it is founded
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being one of the biggest car companies, their first car would become known as the Series C classic six. chevy would become one of Ford’s biggest rivals and they would later be bought by General motors
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in 1913, ford had its first car put onto the first assembly line which made making a car take 12 hours down to only and hour and a half. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling
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after tensions in Europe erupt into war, the USA, UK, Japan, France, and Russia would all begin the development of new technologies for war use, leading to new opportunities with producing the new tech in manufacturing industries
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one of the most popular commercial airliner producers, they would make one of the biggest passenger jets to take to the sky
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ford would produce their first truck model being the 1917 ford model TT with 735 thousand made in the first year of production. https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017/07/27/ford-celebrates-100-years-truck-history.html
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in 1918, a year after ford, chevy would introduce their first truck being the 1918 Chevrolet one ton, it would be used as a one of the first purpose built trucks. https://www.chevytrucklegends.com/us/en/100-year-history-of-chevy-trucks.html
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after an ultimate defeat, the central powers are no more, germany’s now in huge dept with the other countries and has begun printing money to pay the dept, this leads to inflation which also leads to the depression later on
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chrysler was one of the first companies to use Hydraulic breaking systems in their cars and was one of ford and GM’s biggest competitors, however this company would later be bought by Fiat,
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The united states would enter the depression after a stock market crash, some 15 million people would lose their jobs around 1933, and factories would begin to stop in production. the only thing that would pull the USA out of the depression would be the second world war. https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history
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after the invasion of poland, Churchill is put in charge and has had enough with the nazi’s terror, declaring war. the UK at the time was not as modern at the time but the USA was, so the USA would begin the shipping of Resources and equipment to the UK opening opportunities in the manufacturing industry for the US, whilst still focusing on their own economy.
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“yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date that will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly, and deliberately attacked, by naval and air forces, of the empire of Japan.” after president Roosevelt gives his speech, days after the USA would shift from economical to wartime production bringing them out of the depression; Ford and GMC would begin Producing for the USA army and marines
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with WW2 finally over the USA is seen as a World superpower, the nation would return to peace but it former enemy, Germany, would enter a new depression after being split in two-east and west-with inflation kicking in hard, the USA seeing this decides to begin producing and sending supplies to west Germany that would range from food, to equipment, to medicine in a attempt to help stabilize the condition of the formerly defeated country about a year after
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the cold war was a time when the USA and the USSR began a rivalry in sort of an arms race where the two tried to one up each other almost resulting in a nuclear war, one of the biggest things with this was it resulted in the mass production, and research of various military equipment and concepts-some of which are still in use today. the cold war would ultimately end upon the dissipation of the USSR in 1991
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The ford F series when introduced would be Ford’s best selling vehicle and still is to this day
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration would be founded with funding from the US government, this would lead to the production and research of Rocket propulsion which would later put a man on the moon, however due to advancements in tech, one of the most well known rockets could not be made any more being the F1 rocket engine mounted on the Saturn V rocket.
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with the rising demand in air travel during the 1960’s, new planes were being designed and introduced, one such plane would be the Boeing 747 “jumbo jet” airliner. what made it unique was is large size compared to other commercial airliners and the “bulge” in the front where the cockpit resides. it would become one of the most recognizable aircraft in modern aviation history today. https://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/boeing-747-121
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the Nokia 1011 would become one of the world’s first mass produced cell phones with the ability to hold and remember 99 numbers
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Chevy would release its Silverado series and it would be one of their best selling vehicles at the time, they are still sold to this day
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Space X would become a newly popular Space company awhile after creation due to them mostly resorting to reusable parts when developing, designing, and producing their rockets
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in 2004, chrysler would come out with the town and country van model for that year, this one was one of their more successful models due to the amount of space that was available when compared to other companies as well as earlier models
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in 2014 chrysler would be bought by another company, which was Fiat, a Italian automobile company