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U.S. Steel is the merging of the steel empire with the federal steel company and national steel company. The result shaped the nature of manufacturing, worth tens of billions in todays money. It was used to build skyscrapers, cars, and trains. -
Ford produced 15 million identical model Ts between 1908-1927. By 1913 Ford broke it down into 84 steps and each worker was trained on just one of them. -
After the end of the Great Depression corp. sought to extract labor for little money, children worked 10-16 hours a day in bad conditions until Roosevelt signed the fair labor law. -
Companies stopped producing consumer goods and retrofitted factories for weapons -
Allowed machines to do things better than some humans -
This made it required for workplaces to maintain safe environments -
19.4 million american were working in the sector. Thanks to that more jobs -
The first practical was made around this time. It’s one of the greatest things made in the history of manufacturing, and instantly made working easier. -
This made pieces with ease by layers. We can now produce anything we want. -
This was the groundwork for the era of manufacturing that drives it today. It authorized NIST to collaborate with major industries