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Veteran on the Move
A highlight from The CoverBag with Murp McCarthy
"Marine veteran Murph McCarthy is the creator of the cover bag the best protection for your dress hat or dress uniform cover Coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that J -o -b trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe Crain As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org All right today we're talking with Marine Corps veteran Murph McCarthy owner of the cover bag calm and The women's rugby coach at the Naval Academy, that's pretty cool So Murph welcome to the show before we get to talking about business and entrepreneurship As a marine fellow aviator having had one of those on this show for a long time. Tell us what you did in the Marine Corps yes, so I Actually, I enlisted right out of high school and things went really well I was a tower air traffic controller and I ended up at the prep school for the Naval Academy and then graduated from the Naval Academy in 2000 then TBS and then went to down to Pensacola and When so helos went out to the FRS out there in Camp Pendleton quickly fell in love with it learned how to fly frogs Then I went to East Coast and I did two deployments on the East Coast And when I came back from that second one, there was a bunch of ospreys on the tarmac you know, I wasn't sure I wanted to get into that so I solicited my services back out to Camp Pendleton and then I ended up with the Purple Did foxes a couple deployments with them and then along the road. I got I got the the drone stink on me Stick with VMU doing drones and when it came time for me to get out of the cockpit I actually my services were sought by people other than myself To go do that again. So I went To VMU three and did a couple deployments With those guys then I came back to the Naval Academy where I was working in the Stockdale Center for ethical leadership and I was teaching leadership and that's when I started coaching rugby at the Academy in 2011 and then I had one last gig down at DITRA defense threat reduction agency where I was doing I was working on the open skies treaty which is a fascinating gig if you can get it, and I don't think you can get it anymore, but and then I retired in 2017 and You know, that was my Marine Corps story from the end of high school 92 to 2017 interesting so You know, sometimes transition is different. You're retiring because at least you got that paycheck of the month club membership, but Sometimes retirement isn't any easier than you know being in being in the military for four years and then getting out also So what was your transition like? Well, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do when I grew up You know, I was still like volunteering coaching rugby and that I Didn't see myself ever getting out of that because that was just a really fun thing for me to do It filled a lot of the you know, what you miss about the Marine Corps stuff for me But I started looking into a couple different business opportunities. I Started a business before I retired probably almost ten years before I retired and that was the cover bag and what ended up being the cover bag calm and that just grew and grew and grew to where You know, I could definitely take up a lot of time just working that when I retired But I'm I knew that was I wanted one more thing at least And that's when I started looking into other business opportunities and I got into fitness I a started franchise in Annapolis and did that I looked at a Number of other franchise opportunities, but I knew fitness was probably going to be what I wanted to do, right? So Was there an entrepreneurial bug inside of you the whole time? You're in the Marine Corps to just come about at a later time Totally. Yeah, like I've been into that kind of thing when I was since I was a kid So I remember getting in trouble for selling fireworks in the bathroom at my junior high school You know, I came up with ideas for stuff to put on ball caps Slinging t -shirts like that was always a thing but the cover bag was an idea I had when I went to the Naval Academy and You know, you're always wearing that combination cover like in the Marine Corps You're lucky especially if you're in aviation like you already ever even see that thing Yeah, buddy with the chicken you're trucking that thing all around all the time and it's white And you know, all you got to do is sit on it once or you know Be holding an ink pen that you probably should have retired a week before next to it And you gotta take the whole thing apart or buy new parts or buy a new one And I'm like man if I just had a bag for this thing, so it was like a couple years of me sketching out what it probably should look like and then designing it and then You know once you make the first couple and then you kind of go from there, but no I've always had that Hey, wouldn't this be a good idea Like I probably I probably do that like three times a week. Yeah, I've always been the same way but I think like especially when I was when you're a kid or when you're really young you have no idea how to Capitalize on your idea like yeah idea how to implement it or execute. I mean, you just don't have those capabilities and then especially nowadays with the internet and all the technology and everything and in Alibaba and China and all these resources that are available You can you could come up with a harebrained idea in just a few months be taking it to market Whereas like 20 30 years ago. It was like almost impossible to do to do. Yeah. No, and that's something you People should keep in mind. Like if you've got what you think is a crazy idea Just keep kind of fleshing it out and then you know for me it was a buddy of mine He's like, hey, I got a buddy who's got a hat and bag factory in Newark, New Jersey And why don't you send me that sketch you talked about? 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So When I saw your interview come through Murph I gotta admit I'm like the cover bag and I went to your website and I saw it and I'm like ding I get it instant instant like yep thumbs up and Cuz my wife and I were Amazon sellers for many years. We're totally out of the business now. Amazon just got to be Amazon was like walking through a minefield you like you thinking you're fine all sudden kaboom your right leg's missing You're like what the fuck? anyways So we're out of Amazon now, but I loved Amazon cuz like we talked about earlier when you're when you're young You come all these hair brained ideas. That's a great idea for product That's a great idea and I could I could run them to ground and be and be putting it on Amma be putting a great product on Amazon, you know within a few months sometimes Sometimes that's not a good thing because if it turned out not to be a good idea you lose a lot of money At least I could exercise these ideas for the first time in my life. And so I have a true appreciation for a great product and I Remember, you know getting my uniforms at the Marine Corps shop or the marine the marine shop in there in Quantico And I think I still have that white shredded cardboard box with my white cover in it somewhere back in storage and and I The whole time I'm like, how am I supposed to carry this thing around? I mean for 20 plus years in the Marine Corps I carded that thing around in a cardboard box and somehow it managed to work out for him when I saw the cover bag I'm like, oh, yeah, like I get it that that's it. Like like how did how'd you just come up with that idea? It was just I mean I get it It's like it's like a problem every one of us dealt with but nobody ever thought of the idea or at least executed on the idea Yeah, well, I always thought we you know, they're expensive So all you gotta do is have to replace one and you're like man, how do I not do that again? Yeah, and that's where it started but when I had You know that run -in with my buddy's friend who said he could make me a demo I was like a demo sounds like it sounds like I'm in it But he he produced, you know The first cover bag from my sketch and I and all I had was like a little couple tweaks And he sent I ordered about 15 of them and I opened up the box of these 15 cover bags And I handed him out to the guys that were doing the color guard For the ball when we had the ball the next night and when the Marines were like, holy shit, sir This is awesome. Where'd you get these? I was like funny story like I invented that and they're like what and then I knew that I had something and that's Really? Yeah pulling my money together and like spending quality time thinking about how I was gonna do it Wow Yeah, I got like a thousand questions cuz and like I said, I'm a product guy Like I love cool products and the idea behind it. So interviewing somebody that created a product it became successful Because it was just the right idea and Let me tell you man. I don't know if you realize this bit. It is hard to find to Manufacture something in the US and it's great that this is a military product Which by the way, I want to point out like I know in the Navy Marine Corps. We call it a cover your uniform hat The other services. I'm sure the Air Force didn't call it a cover. They probably caught a hat I'm not I'm not sure about the army But you know, I want to point out a cut the cover is your official military head piece or your you know It's your military hat but in the Marine Corps Navy, we call it the cover So your product is called the cover bag But I suppose you you wouldn't have wanted to call it the hat bag because then it would have just been like anything No, and I you know how you always wondered like you watch a commercial Or hear like a radio ad you're like I'm confused but like three minutes later you're still talking about it I think some of that. Yes, I think some of that has happened with calling it the cover back You know because I thought that I was gonna be selling to guys like you and me Like I thought this was gonna be you know by the troops for the troops type thing Yeah, but I have a ton of customers that are moms and Grandmas wives like they don't know what a cover is So they're like I pick up the phone and somebody says cat bag 95 % of the time really and I just I just kind of roll with it because it's one of those You got all these old ladies buying it to you're talking about it. So let's keep that up It's like the the the Red Hat Ladies Club is buying your bag for their hats and stuff or fancy hat No, they're buying it for their husband's boyfriend's grandchildren The cover bag is a huge gift idea like I'll send I'll sell like six figures worth of these things through the Marine Corps exchanges in a year I sell a lot more than that to friends and families of people graduating Parris Island and MCRD San Diego. It's it's absolutely fascinating and Much in the same way as cover bags hat bags hat covers all that stuff My favorite is that you know, I don't pay anything for advertising like I tried it a couple times It was to me It was like wasting money because I couldn't figure out if it was doing anything at all But people will get on Facebook and argue about what should be Embroidered on the cover bag. No, it should be last name first name. No, it should just be the initials No It should be first name and then the middle name and then the last name and I'm like this is amazing because it'll go on And then the website goes ding ding ding Yeah, well I suppose you know first initial middle initial last name, you know, maybe rank before that might you know if you're selling them to all the eighth and I Marines if it becomes that if he becomes a Regular issue piece of gear. Well, then you gotta you gotta do by right? I think that's probably eventually gonna happen. Yeah Yeah, the Marines like solve a lot of your problems. They just make you do stuff The Marine Corps ever figures out. Hey, we don't want anybody walking around with a bad -looking cover again We're gonna put one of them cover bags in their c -bag issue. Yeah, that's it. That'll solve that. Yeah Yeah, well then they won't have to walk around with it in you in there with their bent arm and hand, you know So So what are some of your numbers that you can share with us or just to give us a perspective on? How successful the cover bags? Well, to be honest The company's not openly for sale, so I'm not really in tune exactly with the numbers But I've been trying to get in with the Navy exchange So the last gentleman that worked there He didn't really understand and like how the cover bag was an amazing piece of gear But they're starting to get the memo now and the main number I've been talking with them is like hey Do you know I I do over six figures worth of business with the MCX at the Navy exchanges of which there is many Many more. Can you imagine how good this would do if it was available? Yeah to the Navy first hand and then retail, you know I do I do a lot more business retail than I do goals for sale. So well, dude, that's awesome. This is good you're always gonna need to protect that cover and like I said the the parents and Girlfriends wives and grandparents are on Facebook talking about what needs to be on a cover bag and they're like, what's a cover bag? Cover and then there I am my website just gets the pinks. Yeah You know, it's like that the old the old Henry Ford story where he says Well, if I had asked the customer what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse, you know, or right There's a quote similar from Steve Jobs Like sometimes the customer doesn't really know what they're looking forward what they need until they see it You can have any color car you want as long as it's black the other Henry Ford one yeah, and The cover bags kind of like that because if you said what's one of the biggest, you know You know pain in the ass things you do you deal with with your uniform? Nobody would have said I wish I had something to carry my cover in but I mean hardly anybody would have said that but When they see when they see the cover bag, they're like, oh, yeah I want one of them because I that is a pain point for me I just never realized that there would be as ever solution for it yeah, no, it's it's a no -brainer and eat and like People that aren't, you know actively using the cover like the parents can figure out that a cover bags a great idea And the other thing is, you know, mom's don't want to be buying their kids, you know, whiskey flasks and knives Something Practical they're not gonna put alcohol in or possibly shank somebody with It works out pretty good to get him a cover back and embroidery everybody loves embroidery that Yeah Now it's got your name on it, oh, yeah The embroidery thing for the cover bag is when it really exploded Yeah, and there's a nice big surface area on the thing for plenty of embroidery you can Yeah It takes a while if you come up with a design and you want me to put it on there that takes a little more time a little more involved, but I got plenty of patch choices and You can put whatever name you want on there nicknames Like if people get too wrapped up in what name they want in there or what order I'll be like Does your does your son have a pretty cool nickname? They're like, oh, yeah, we call him Sparky.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan
"Warning, the following message contains an app recommendation you won't be able to resist. Girl, how do you keep getting all these things for free? Coffee, makeup, and now lunch? You haven't heard of the Drop app? Drop is a free app that rewards you for shopping at places like Ulta, Adidas, and Sam's Club. I've already earned $100 this month. Download the Drop app and get $5. Use invite code GETDROP222. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too. So this is Stuff You Should Know, the wacky Strange History edition, yet another one. I love this one. We got a few people to thank out of the gate for this, if I may. Sure. First of all, we want to thank listener Brennan Wilson, who gave this idea to us through email. I had never heard of it before, so Brennan sent this in, and I did a quick search, as I always do when someone sends in something, and thus it's like, oh, do one on shoe soles. But when it's something I hadn't heard of, I always look it up, and I was like, oh man, this is a really good one. I didn't know about this. So big thanks to Brennan. Big thanks to Livia, who put this one together and helped us out. And Livia actually said we should thank a couple of people in particular that sort of wrote the book, well, literally and figuratively, on Fordlandia. Greg Grandin wrote a book called Fordlandia, colon, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. Spoiler alert. And then there was a paper in the late 70s by a guy named John Gailey in the Journal of Inter -American Studies and World Affairs that also had a lot of good stuff. So thanks to everyone involved. Here we go. Wow, that was a lot. I was waiting for you to tell us who Greg Grandin said we should thank. Yeah, right. Mom. So we are talking about Fordlandia. We are talking about what you could call Ford's Folly. Just to kind of strip it bare right out of the gate. It was Henry Ford's misadventure down in the Amazon where he tried to build a model utopian society based on rural midwestern America. Right, in the Amazon. In the Amazon. That's a big catch right there because he didn't try to do it in Omaha or Topeka. He chose the Amazon over Topeka and I think that says a lot about Topeka. Yeah. Oh, we love Arkansans. I hope they know that. All but one. All but one. That's right. All right, so we should talk a little bit about the sort of weirdo that was Henry Ford. Maybe we should do a whole one, a whole ep on him one day. I didn't know a ton about the guy. He did a lot of great stuff. Was also not great in a lot of ways. That's such a recurring theme. I know. In 1903 is where the Ford Motor Company was born in Dearborn, Michigan. And thanks to the Model T, it changed America. It was a car that was available, more available than any car had ever been to like regular Americans. He paid his workers a living wage, which at the time was five dollars a day. And he also had a lot of strings attached to that good wage and those good jobs along the lines of like, hey, I know we're a car company, but let's have a sociology department in our company where we send out hundreds of investigators around Dearborn into the homes of my employees to make sure that the kids are going to school and everything is tidy, the wife isn't working and that people aren't drinking booze. Yeah, it was the Ford Motor Company equivalent of the Gestapo, the secret police who they weren't coming to like your company owned house that you lived in on the Ford Motor Company campus. This is your house in Michigan and these people felt totally fine coming by and checking on your family to make sure that you were living up to Henry Ford's personal standards of old timey, squeaky clean American -ness. Yeah, but at the same time, he would also, like I said, pay them a good wage. He would give them great health care. He would help citizenship along if he had immigrants working for them. He would help them with their applications, help them get home loans. So it was one of those things where he was like, I feel like I'm paying you well and I'm doing a lot of good for you and your family and that gives me the right as really just your uber boss to dictate how you should live your life as well. It's insane. It is. He was an anti -Semite. It's pretty well trod that Hitler was at least in part inspired by the writings, the anti -Semite, anti -Semitic writings of Henry Ford. Yeah. He was a huge fan of square dancing. You could call it an obsession essentially.
History That Doesn't Suck
"henry ford" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"This required eliminating all color options apart from black starting in 1914, but he did it. Other companies in industries followed suit and soon, mass production was everywhere. It probably brought you the very device you're using to listen to this podcast right now. In short, Henry played a sizable part in building our modern world. Hence his boast. I invented the modern age. Henry is also the tycoon of the people. The boss who doubled the working man's pay. Yet he felt those wages gave him the right to press into the personal lives of his employees. And in a somewhat ironic twist, this fiercely independent man nonetheless clashed hard with unions later in life. So Henry is quite complicated on this point. And finally, there's the one great stain on the brilliant mechanic's legacy. His anti semitism. Yes, for better or worse, or maybe for better and for worse. All of this is Henry. The Henry who, during the progressive era, changed the world. And with that, we close the chapter on yet another turn of the century tycoon. But we aren't done with inventors. It's about time we met two brothers who, like Henry, are interested in transportation. Just not on the ground. Ready to get airborne? We'll see if that's possible next time. When we meet these men of the sky on North Carolina's coast. At a place called kitty hawk. History that doesn't suck is created and hosted by me, Greg Jackson. Young sunnyside Washington boy read by special guest Alexander jacks, episode researched and written by Greg Jackson, additional research and drafting by Diana Abram. Production by airship. Sound designed by Molly bought, being music composed by Greg Jackson, arrangement and additional composition by Lindsey Graham airship. For bibliography of all primary and secondary sources consulted in writing this episode, visit HTTPS podcast dot com. HTTPS is supported by fans at Patreon dot com slash history that doesn't suck. My gratitude to consoles providing funding to help us keep going. Thank you. And a special thanks to our patrons whose monthly gift puts them at producer status. Luke antioco, Roberto Cindy, and Anne Avril, Paul boroski, Christopher Beckett, Victoria Bennett, James black, boosh, Amanda kelsea Bragg, Henry brunches, Thomas bug, will Caldwell, bethan christiansen, Christopher cottle, Jason carstens, Charles and Shirley Clinton. Matthew corley, David defazio, Charles devier, John frugal dougal, Kyle decker, bob drowsy, Joe dos, Mark Ellis, Michael and Rachel herculane, Paul go ranger, Lee Goldman, Brad Herman, Jennifer Houston, Mike healey, Noah hoth, Melanie Jan. Dex Jones, John Keller, Kristen Kennedy, Todd keim, amber clanger, Sue Lang, art lane, Aaron la palace, Chris Mendoza, rich Miller, Matthew Mitchell, Janie mccreary, Liz McNeil, doll more, Jeffrey moots, nicknamed Fox Osbourne, Sean peppery, Christopher colman, Sean Reagan, Nate Robertson, Jon revin, John schaeffer, Shannon Stewart, David and Alexander sharp. Scott slaymaker, dorante Spencer, Thomas Stewart, Bill Thompson, Sarah tray with TJ walker and Geoffrey watts. Join me in two weeks, where I'd like to tell you a story. Hear that. That's the sound of a patient whose health data is protected from a cyberattack. And that, that's the sound of a financial system that's digitally secured from bad actors. Right now, there's an invisible war being fought on a digital battlefield that impacts what we do every day. That's why it periton, we do that can't be done to help protect the vital systems we rely on because if we don't, the alternative is unimaginable. Periton.
History That Doesn't Suck
"henry ford" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"This required eliminating all color options apart from black starting in 1914, but he did it. Other companies in industries followed suit and soon, mass production was everywhere. It probably brought you the very device you're using to listen to this podcast right now. In short, Henry played a sizable part in building our modern world. Hence his boast. I invented the modern age. Henry is also the tycoon of the people. The boss who doubled the working man's pay. Yet he felt those wages gave him the right to press into the personal lives of his employees. And in a somewhat ironic twist, this fiercely independent man nonetheless clashed hard with unions later in life. So Henry is quite complicated on this point. And finally, there's the one great stain on the brilliant mechanic's legacy. His anti semitism. Yes, for better or worse, or maybe for better and for worse. All of this is Henry. The Henry who, during the progressive era, changed the world. And with that, we close the chapter on yet another turn of the century tycoon. But we aren't done with inventors. It's about time we met two brothers who, like Henry, are interested in transportation. Just not on the ground. Ready to get airborne? We'll see if that's possible next time. When we meet these men of the sky on North Carolina's coast. At a place called kitty hawk. History that doesn't suck is created and hosted by me, Greg Jackson. Young sunnyside Washington boy read by special guest Alexander jacks, episode researched and written by Greg Jackson, additional research and drafting by Diana Abram. Production by airship. Sound designed by Molly bought, being music composed by Greg Jackson, arrangement and additional composition by Lindsey Graham airship. For bibliography of all primary and secondary sources consulted in writing this episode, visit HTTPS podcast dot com. HTTPS is supported by fans at Patreon dot com slash history that doesn't suck. My gratitude to consoles providing funding to help us keep going. Thank you. And a special thanks to our patrons whose monthly gift puts them at producer status. Luke antioco, Roberto Cindy, and Anne Avril, Paul boroski, Christopher Beckett, Victoria Bennett, James black, boosh, Amanda kelsea Bragg, Henry brunches, Thomas bug, will Caldwell, bethan christiansen, Christopher cottle, Jason carstens, Charles and Shirley Clinton. Matthew corley, David defazio, Charles devier, John frugal dougal, Kyle decker, bob drowsy, Joe dos, Mark Ellis, Michael and Rachel herculane, Paul go ranger, Lee Goldman, Brad Herman, Jennifer Houston, Mike healey, Noah hoth, Melanie Jan. Dex Jones, John Keller, Kristen Kennedy, Todd keim, amber clanger, Sue Lang, art lane, Aaron la palace, Chris Mendoza, rich Miller, Matthew Mitchell, Janie mccreary, Liz McNeil, doll more, Jeffrey moots, nicknamed Fox Osbourne, Sean peppery, Christopher colman, Sean Reagan, Nate Robertson, Jon revin, John schaeffer, Shannon Stewart, David and Alexander sharp. Scott slaymaker, dorante Spencer, Thomas Stewart, Bill Thompson, Sarah tray with TJ walker and Geoffrey watts. Join me in two weeks, where I'd like to tell you a story. Hear that. That's the sound of a patient whose health data is protected from a cyberattack. And that, that's the sound of a financial system that's digitally secured from bad actors. Right now, there's an invisible war being fought on a digital battlefield that impacts what we do every day. That's why it periton, we do that can't be done to help protect the vital systems we rely on because if we don't, the alternative is unimaginable. Periton.
History That Doesn't Suck
"henry ford" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"This will cost the company millions. Why would they do this? VP James cousins answers. Believing as we do that a division of our earnings between capital and labor is unequal. We have sought a system of relief suitable for our business. Finally, Henry himself chimes in. Standing by an enormous window, the gangly inventive, now 50 year old company president states, we believe in making 25,000 men prosperous and contented rather than follow the plan of making a few slave drivers in our establishment millionaires. The headlines are nationwide and immediate. Many gift praise Henry Ford gives $10 million in 1914 profits to his employees. Ford factory has a heart. For it again, staggers the world. Others are less so. The New York sun dubs him crazy Ford. The Wall Street Journal argues that, quote, to double the minimum wage without regard to length of service, is to apply biblical or spiritual principles in the field where they do not belong. Meanwhile, people travel across the nation with hopes of a job at Ford Motor Company. It can get downright riotous at the plant. A 6 month residency in Detroit is soon made a requirement in response. But it's not just the factory. With job seekers bombarding their Edison avenue home, Henry and Clare are compelled to move. They build a gorgeous estate near the farmland they came from. They call it fair lane. These high wages don't come without strings attached though. The $5 per day pay is intended for married men. Males under 22 only qualify if they are breadwinners for a widowed mother or dependent younger siblings. The company's few hundred women likewise only qualify if they contrary to the social norms of the day, are pressed into the role of breadwinner. But that's not all. Non English speakers among the company's mostly immigrant wage workers must enroll in its new English language school. Further, workers only qualify if they have their personal finances in order, well behaved children, and a clean house. How does Henry even know these intimate details of his 25,000 wage earning employees lives? Well, that's the job of his new sociological department. With no pad in hand, it's 200 investigators inspect employee homes and interview them. Their friends, family, and even landlords. If you're a Ford employee, best pray the sociological department doesn't sniff any hints of alcohol on your breath. Find that you're not legally married, or if you're an immigrant, catch you sending money to failing in your homeland. No letting out rooms either. Meet all these standards, and you'll get $5 a day. You may even get permission to buy a car. These stipulations are controversial. But while plenty of Henry's employees are bothered, they find the pay worth conforming. Or at least lying. And many see more good than bad in this program, like episode one 13s muckraking slayer of Standard Oil, Ida B tarbell. She heads out to highland park, ready to take Henry down for this, but comes away a believer, concluding. Quote, I don't care what you call it. Philanthropy, paternalism, autocracy, the results which are being obtained are worth all you can set against them. The 19 teens continue on. Henry's son edsel marries and takes the role of company president, VP James cousins leaves the company, while the Dodge brothers decide to make their own cars. But despite these changes, Henry still dominating. By the end of World War I, which the pacifist carmaker opposes, 50% of cars on American roads are model ts. Meanwhile, president Woodrow Wilson talks Henry into running for U.S. Senate in 1918. Or perhaps talks him into being a candidate is a better way to put it. Henry refuses to campaign. That's still the Michigan Democrat only loses by 2200 votes. Wow, that is power and influence. That influence is why American Jews are particularly terrified when Henry shows himself to be anti semitic. It's quite shocking, really. To this point, Henry's appeared to be better than many of his generation on issues of race and religion. Specifically, he employs black Americans and immigrants of all sorts of origins. Muslims have found Ford Motor Company welcoming. As the scourge of anti semitism spreads conspiracy theories across the U.S., let me choose the scapegoat for just about every problem in post World War I life, Henry buys into it. He spreads it. 1920, he begins using his recently acquired newspaper. His old hometown's Dearborn independent to preach anti semitic propaganda. He does so through 91 issues straight, then publishes those articles in a four volume set titled the international Jew. And while the ideas aren't particularly original or novel in an era of rampant anti semitism, the influencing reach of the famous carmaker makes these publications particularly harmful. Not only do people care what he thinks, but Henry makes these publications available at most of his nationwide four dealerships. He also reprints an originally Russian deceitful text that claims an international council of Jews got together and made a grand plan to dominate the world, and thus created all the world's problems. Again, Henry buys into this. To quote him, wherever there's anything wrong with the country, you'll find the Jews on the job there. Damn. In 1925, Jewish lawyer Aaron sapiro files a libel suit against Henry. They ultimately reach a settlement, and Henry issues a public apology in the summer of 1927. While some believe he's sincere, others, especially those closest to Henry. Don't believe a word of it. But down the road, most won't think of his apology when the year 1927 in Henry Ford brought to mind. They'll think about the end of the model T that may, as the 15 millionth model T rolls off the line. Henry announces the end of his iconic car. That's right. The Ford Motor Company will not build another ten Lizzie. After 1927. Like I said at the start. I can't give you Henry Ford's whole biography in a one hour episode. There's too much to him. For instance, other aspects of his life include attempting to socially engineer a rubber producing American utopia in Brazil called fort landia. Gathering or creating replicas of historically significant inventions and even buildings in his future Greenfield village. And some difficulties in his personal life, including a strained relationship with his early to the grave sun at sol, as well as a possible love child. All this and more fill his long life before the 83 year old's death in 1947. But as I told you at the start, our tails focus was that of the mechanically gifted farm boy, flooding a nation with his iconic cars. That was Henry's great impact on the United States, and that, we have covered. Now let's unpack it. First, let's consider the model T Henry certainly didn't invent the car, but not altogether different from his friend and mentor Thomas Alva Edison's role with the incandescent light. Henry brought the car to the average American. It was Henry, who bucked the ways of the seldom patent license carmakers by building inexpensive vehicles that almost everyone could afford. Even the farmer. He thereby drastically accelerated the rise of the car, and when we consider its impact on the United States, new roads interstate freeways, the eventual rise of drive-through restaurants and even car oriented cities. It truly is hard to quantify him as impact. Second, we come to Henry's actual invention, mass production. Ford Motor company eventually became so efficient at building the model T, one rolled off the line every ten seconds.
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"The science. Seeing gas powered cars ready to pop commercially, he finally let his application go through 16 years after he started it. In 1895 now, making a claim for royalties on every gas car in the nation was still a stretch. But George soon found a ready partner in the newly founded electric vehicle company. It saw helping George is a great way to hit the internal combustion competition. Amid legal fights, gas carmakers, like winton, Cadillac, and olds motor works, saw it was cheaper to acquiesce and ironically soon became the patents and forces. They formed the association of licensed automobile manufacturers and agreed to play ball with the seldom patent for a cut rate on licensing. These empowered automakers next started deciding who could be in their licensed club and who couldn't. Favoring expensive cars, they told inexpensive carmaker Henry Ford in 1903 that he wasn't welcome. Huh. Henry more or less responded that they could take their licenses and this ridiculous patent and shove it up their overpriced tailpipes. The electric vehicle company went out of business in 1907. The tech just wasn't there yet. But the case continued, going before a judge only months before the 1909 transcontinental race. Henry lost in court. Still, he was confident. In his mind, how could four cycle engines be subject to George seldon's two bit, sorry, two cycle engine? He and his team appeal, and sure enough, sweet victory comes. In 1911, the court finds that George selden's patent only applies to car manufacturers using his two cycle engine, and the number of companies on that list is exactly one. Ohio's L more manufacturing. Thus, Henry Ford has saved the car world from a stifling patent and having started this fight during the Teddy Roosevelt trust busting years. Oh, he's basically a hero. Henry's now the slayer of oligarchy, the defender of the free market in the American way. He's also figuring out how to deliver his much desired model T to the people. Not only keeping up with demand, but even lowering the price. Henry isn't just embracing the industrial age's use of the assembly line. His team have taken that to the n-th degree. They've invented mass production. April 1st, 1913, in 29 men had just arrived for their shift at Ford's massive four story, concrete and glass built plant, located on a 60 acre plot in highland park, Michigan. They have a very specific job. Assembling the 16 magnets in equal number of wire coils that make a model team magneto. But today, their workstation looks different. There's a long raised platform, a line, as it's called. And rather than each man building an individual magneto, the workers are told they'll perform only one small action. Then slide the magneto to the next man on the line. What on earth? For hours on end, the 29 men stand here, each doing his minuscule repetitive part. Some place a few bolts and that's it. The next man will do the tiny. The key thing is whatever his role, placing a single wire coil perhaps. That role never changes as the soon to be magneto moves a yard down the line to the next guy. Working like this, these skilled capable workers who previously produced a magneto every 20 minutes are now cranking them out almost twice as fast. With further adjustments to this repetitive moving conveying assembly line process, Ford motors will shave the model T's magneto build time down to a mere 5 minutes. Damn. Henry's version of the assembly line didn't come together overnight. Between 1906 and 1908, when the Ford Motor Company was still building model T's at the piquette avenue plant, Walter Flanders ended the practice of organizing machines by what they do, and instead, place them in a sequential order. He also pushed for interchangeable uniform parts. But it wasn't until the late 1909, early 1910 moved to this current highland park facility. The Crystal Palace as it's known due to its glass roof and massive windows. At the entire process of building a model T, could be in perfect sequence. And further, continuously movie. And that movement is key. It's the secret to Henry Ford's mass production. And of course, that movement can happen because every single part for the model T's manufacturing process is getting shaved down to the fastest, most efficient method possible, just as we witnessed happening with the magnetos. All that shaving adds up. As Henry puts it quote, a cardinal principle of mass production is that hard work. In the old physical sense of laborious burden bearing is wasteful. Save ten steps a day for each of 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and miss spin energy. And the numbers prove Henry Wright. In its first year, this mass production process ups model T production from 82,000 to 189,000. Meanwhile, the car's price is plummeting from a high of $950 to a low of $260 in 1924. To translate that into our terms, that price point is roughly equal to $5000 in the early 21st century. Yeah, imagine you spending 5 grand for a new car. While reporters and others watching Henry's moving picture of this process are awestruck. This mass production business isn't all sunshine and roses. Efficiency experts have studied each task and calculated exactly how quickly a worker can move product. All are expected to keep that pace. It's stressful. Here's how one assembly line worker, Charles Madison, describes this setup. Quote, the harried foreman told me that my operation had been timed by an efficiency expert to produce a certain number of finished parts per day. A timed myself to see what I could actually do and realize that I might achieve that quota only if all went well and I worked without let up the entire 8 hours. No allowance was made for lunch, toilet time or tool sharpening. But even if workers can keep up, standing shoulder to shoulder at the conveyor belt, performing one specialized mind numbingly repetitive task, it's torture, especially for high skilled workers who've lost the joy of their craft. Henry finds himself facing high turnover. But there's a great way to counter that. He entices workers by paying better. In fact, not just better, but more than double what a working man can hope for elsewhere. It's January 5th, 1914. Reporters from three Detroit newspapers are at the Ford Motor Company's Crystal Palace factory in highland park, just stepping into company vice president, James cousins office. Yes, that James. The one who studied the company during those early model a days. He barely understands what happens under a car's hood, but he's brilliant with money. And that reputation makes what he's about to say, all the more surprising. With the two page press release handed to each reporter, the bespectacled 40 something VP begins reading it aloud. Ford Motor Company, the greatest and most successful automobile manufacturing company in the world. Will, on January 12th, inaugurate the greatest revolution in the matter of rewards for its workers ever known in the industrial world. Reading on, James announces that Ford Motor Company is decreasing its 9 hour shifts to 8. Logistically, this means the plant can now accommodate three shifts in 24 hours. Okay, that makes sense. But then the big shot comes. Not only will Ford's factory employees work one hour less per day. They'll do so for more than double their current wage of two 34 per day. Ford Motor Company is upping its daily wages to $5. The reporters are baffled.
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"The science. Seeing gas powered cars ready to pop commercially, he finally let his application go through 16 years after he started it. In 1895 now, making a claim for royalties on every gas car in the nation was still a stretch. But George soon found a ready partner in the newly founded electric vehicle company. It saw helping George is a great way to hit the internal combustion competition. Amid legal fights, gas carmakers, like winton, Cadillac, and olds motor works, saw it was cheaper to acquiesce and ironically soon became the patents and forces. They formed the association of licensed automobile manufacturers and agreed to play ball with the seldom patent for a cut rate on licensing. These empowered automakers next started deciding who could be in their licensed club and who couldn't. Favoring expensive cars, they told inexpensive carmaker Henry Ford in 1903 that he wasn't welcome. Huh. Henry more or less responded that they could take their licenses and this ridiculous patent and shove it up their overpriced tailpipes. The electric vehicle company went out of business in 1907. The tech just wasn't there yet. But the case continued, going before a judge only months before the 1909 transcontinental race. Henry lost in court. Still, he was confident. In his mind, how could four cycle engines be subject to George seldon's two bit, sorry, two cycle engine? He and his team appeal, and sure enough, sweet victory comes. In 1911, the court finds that George selden's patent only applies to car manufacturers using his two cycle engine, and the number of companies on that list is exactly one. Ohio's L more manufacturing. Thus, Henry Ford has saved the car world from a stifling patent and having started this fight during the Teddy Roosevelt trust busting years. Oh, he's basically a hero. Henry's now the slayer of oligarchy, the defender of the free market in the American way. He's also figuring out how to deliver his much desired model T to the people. Not only keeping up with demand, but even lowering the price. Henry isn't just embracing the industrial age's use of the assembly line. His team have taken that to the n-th degree. They've invented mass production. April 1st, 1913, in 29 men had just arrived for their shift at Ford's massive four story, concrete and glass built plant, located on a 60 acre plot in highland park, Michigan. They have a very specific job. Assembling the 16 magnets in equal number of wire coils that make a model team magneto. But today, their workstation looks different. There's a long raised platform, a line, as it's called. And rather than each man building an individual magneto, the workers are told they'll perform only one small action. Then slide the magneto to the next man on the line. What on earth? For hours on end, the 29 men stand here, each doing his minuscule repetitive part. Some place a few bolts and that's it. The next man will do the tiny. The key thing is whatever his role, placing a single wire coil perhaps. That role never changes as the soon to be magneto moves a yard down the line to the next guy. Working like this, these skilled capable workers who previously produced a magneto every 20 minutes are now cranking them out almost twice as fast. With further adjustments to this repetitive moving conveying assembly line process, Ford motors will shave the model T's magneto build time down to a mere 5 minutes. Damn. Henry's version of the assembly line didn't come together overnight. Between 1906 and 1908, when the Ford Motor Company was still building model T's at the piquette avenue plant, Walter Flanders ended the practice of organizing machines by what they do, and instead, place them in a sequential order. He also pushed for interchangeable uniform parts. But it wasn't until the late 1909, early 1910 moved to this current highland park facility. The Crystal Palace as it's known due to its glass roof and massive windows. At the entire process of building a model T, could be in perfect sequence. And further, continuously movie. And that movement is key. It's the secret to Henry Ford's mass production. And of course, that movement can happen because every single part for the model T's manufacturing process is getting shaved down to the fastest, most efficient method possible, just as we witnessed happening with the magnetos. All that shaving adds up. As Henry puts it quote, a cardinal principle of mass production is that hard work. In the old physical sense of laborious burden bearing is wasteful. Save ten steps a day for each of 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and miss spin energy. And the numbers prove Henry Wright. In its first year, this mass production process ups model T production from 82,000 to 189,000. Meanwhile, the car's price is plummeting from a high of $950 to a low of $260 in 1924. To translate that into our terms, that price point is roughly equal to $5000 in the early 21st century. Yeah, imagine you spending 5 grand for a new car. While reporters and others watching Henry's moving picture of this process are awestruck. This mass production business isn't all sunshine and roses. Efficiency experts have studied each task and calculated exactly how quickly a worker can move product. All are expected to keep that pace. It's stressful. Here's how one assembly line worker, Charles Madison, describes this setup. Quote, the harried foreman told me that my operation had been timed by an efficiency expert to produce a certain number of finished parts per day. A timed myself to see what I could actually do and realize that I might achieve that quota only if all went well and I worked without let up the entire 8 hours. No allowance was made for lunch, toilet time or tool sharpening. But even if workers can keep up, standing shoulder to shoulder at the conveyor belt, performing one specialized mind numbingly repetitive task, it's torture, especially for high skilled workers who've lost the joy of their craft. Henry finds himself facing high turnover. But there's a great way to counter that. He entices workers by paying better. In fact, not just better, but more than double what a working man can hope for elsewhere. It's January 5th, 1914. Reporters from three Detroit newspapers are at the Ford Motor Company's Crystal Palace factory in highland park, just stepping into company vice president, James cousins office. Yes, that James. The one who studied the company during those early model a days. He barely understands what happens under a car's hood, but he's brilliant with money. And that reputation makes what he's about to say, all the more surprising. With the two page press release handed to each reporter, the bespectacled 40 something VP begins reading it aloud. Ford Motor Company, the greatest and most successful automobile manufacturing company in the world. Will, on January 12th, inaugurate the greatest revolution in the matter of rewards for its workers ever known in the industrial world. Reading on, James announces that Ford Motor Company is decreasing its 9 hour shifts to 8. Logistically, this means the plant can now accommodate three shifts in 24 hours. Okay, that makes sense. But then the big shot comes. Not only will Ford's factory employees work one hour less per day. They'll do so for more than double their current wage of two 34 per day. Ford Motor Company is upping its daily wages to $5. The reporters are baffled.
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"Electricity as he reports to work at Edison illuminating company on September 25th, 1891. It doesn't matter. He gets it fast. Raises and promotions follow, and by late 1893, this gangly Edison man is just winning at life. On November 6th of that year, he and Clara have a baby boy, whom they name after Henry's lifelong friend edsel. On December 1st, Henry's promoted to chief engineer. Two weeks later, the growing Ford family moves to 58 Bagley avenue, where, on Christmas Eve, the now electrically savvy mechanic taps into a kitchen lightbulb for a spark and brings his first gasoline powered internal combustion engine to life. And I'm sure you recognize 58 Bagley from this episode's opening. Yes, it's here in the shed out back that Henry builds his quadricycle in 1896. It's not the first horseless carriage in Detroit, Henry's friend Charles king beat him to the punch by a few months. But it's far faster and superior in every way. Still, important questions linger. In this new bold world, powered not only by steam, but electricity and even gasoline is Henry on the right track, is internal combustion the way. I don't know if he really wants to entertain the question, but he will. And he'll do so with America's most famous inventor. It's the evening of August 12th, 1896, and the Edison illuminating company is holding a conference on the eastern side of Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island Peninsula. At Manhattan beaches oriental hotel. This is no small thing. The oriental is the most luxurious resort on Coney Island. It's how the nation's elite do America's playground. And right now, Edison illuminating top men are in its banquet hall, relishing a scrumptious dinner. Honestly, how the Detroit plants lowly chief engineer got invited, I can't say, but Henry Ford and his boss, Alexander Dow, are both here and seated at the very same table as the company's founder. Yes, him. The man who made electric lighting commercially viable, AKA the old man, or the wizard of Menlo Park. Thomas Alva Edison. As the men eat and swap stories, conversation turns to horseless wagons. Specifically to electric cars. All agree that charging the battery is the crux of the issue. Then Alexander Dow points to his chief engineer and announces. This young fellow here has made a gas car. All eyes turn to Henry. Questions fly and he finds himself explaining the quadricycle to his electric minded colleagues. Or electric minded superiors rather. Then something extraordinary happens. His heart of hearing hero, T Alva Edison asks Henry to take a seat next to him. The wizard fixes his eyes on the young employee and asks, is it a four cycle engine? Henry answers, yes, it draws diagrams as the old man peppers him with questions. Eventually, the wizard of Menlo Park excitedly strikes the dining table and says to Henry, young man, that's the thing. You have it. Keep at it. Electric cars must keep near to power stations. The storage battery is too heavy. Steam cars won't do it either for they have to carry a boiler and fire. Your car is self contained. It carries its own power plant. Keep at it. Henry's tenacious, I doubt he was ever shaken by the taunts, his fellow Edison employees have thrown his way for using gas before tonight, but to hear such encouragement from the God of electricity himself. The young michigander is all the more determined. Tonight then is momentous. He leaves this dinner not only starting a lifelong friendship with his hero, Tia the Edison. He leaves all the more determined to do for the horseless carriage or car as it's now being called. What his men load mentor did for the incandescent light. Make it commercially viable for just about everyone. And thereby change the world. Come August 1899, Henry's ready to take a leap of faith. With the financial backing of investors, he quits his job at Edison illuminating, and founds the Detroit motor company. But like many car companies popping up at the turn of the century, it's a disaster. A perfectionist, Henry and his team only managed to produce ten vehicles. All heavy, bulky delivery trucks before the company dies 18 months later in January 1901. Financially strapped by undeterred, 38 year old Henry decides to prove his medal anew. He built a race car called sweepstakes and enters an automobile race at the grosse Pointe racetrack that October. Before a crowd of thousands, he not only holds his own, he defeats the nation's top car manufacturer, Alexander winton. Ah, Henry again has the eyes of investors in the next month, November, 1901, his second company, the Henry Ford company, is born. But with his mind on racing, not producing, and displeased at his mere one 6th ownership in the company, Henry and the enterprise part ways only months later in early 1902. His former partner soon changed the company's name to Cadillac. But the race world continues to pay off for Henry. In October, 1902, Barney oldfield drives Henry's latest creation, known as 9 9 9 to yet another victory over Alexander winton. Henry's 9 9 9 race car is a record setting vehicle, and this victory only grows the talented carmakers national reputation. But despite this victory, finances continue to be an issue. Henry and his latest partner, local coal dealer Alexander malcolmson, are strapped for cash and have bills to pay. Thus, on June 16th, 1903, Henry proves that, like Michael Scott from the TV show, the office, he, too, has no shortage of company names. While Henry and Alexander tank controlling interest by holding 25.5% of the company each, they transform their operation into the Ford Motor Company. In total, there are a dozen partners. Among them are the owners of the machine shop Henry's already using to fiery wild west like quick to get in a scrap siblings. John and Horace, better known as the Dodge brothers. It isn't long before the people of Detroit see horses hauling car chassis from the Dodge brothers Monroe street shop to the Ford Motor Company's plant on Mac avenue. Teams of two to three men then turn these chassis in Henry's latest design. The model a while some elements of this open carriage automobile have a slight quadricycle look, the model a is far sleeker with its gorgeous red paint, black leather seats and detachable tunnel, or backseat, if you will. Yeah, you can get this as a two or four seater. You can further splurge on the optional lamps, horn, and brass trimmings. The model a's two cylinder engine is also far more powerful than its 1896 ancestor. Try 8 horsepower and a top speed of nearly 30 mph. Oh, and another advantage over the quadricycle, the model a can go and reverse. This boss of the road as Ford Motor Company calls the model a, is available at the very reasonable price of $750, or 850 with the to know. But a possible crinkle comes from the association of licensed automobile manufacturers. It refuses to license Ford Motor Company, then asserts that Ford is violating George selden's patent on gasoline automobiles. And further, threatens to sue the company's customers. But the Detroit based company collapsed back. It's willing to fight the legitimacy of this patent in the name of a man who never even successfully built the gas powered card, which is patently claim. And promises to cover its customers in the event of a lawsuit. Thus, Americans begin to buy the model a, as these legal issues play in the background. There are other growing pains. Henry dies inside with every reported complaint and breakdown, but his perfectionism won't kill yet another company. Not with James cousins around. He keeps the
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"Electricity as he reports to work at Edison illuminating company on September 25th, 1891. It doesn't matter. He gets it fast. Raises and promotions follow, and by late 1893, this gangly Edison man is just winning at life. On November 6th of that year, he and Clara have a baby boy, whom they name after Henry's lifelong friend edsel. On December 1st, Henry's promoted to chief engineer. Two weeks later, the growing Ford family moves to 58 Bagley avenue, where, on Christmas Eve, the now electrically savvy mechanic taps into a kitchen lightbulb for a spark and brings his first gasoline powered internal combustion engine to life. And I'm sure you recognize 58 Bagley from this episode's opening. Yes, it's here in the shed out back that Henry builds his quadricycle in 1896. It's not the first horseless carriage in Detroit, Henry's friend Charles king beat him to the punch by a few months. But it's far faster and superior in every way. Still, important questions linger. In this new bold world, powered not only by steam, but electricity and even gasoline is Henry on the right track, is internal combustion the way. I don't know if he really wants to entertain the question, but he will. And he'll do so with America's most famous inventor. It's the evening of August 12th, 1896, and the Edison illuminating company is holding a conference on the eastern side of Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island Peninsula. At Manhattan beaches oriental hotel. This is no small thing. The oriental is the most luxurious resort on Coney Island. It's how the nation's elite do America's playground. And right now, Edison illuminating top men are in its banquet hall, relishing a scrumptious dinner. Honestly, how the Detroit plants lowly chief engineer got invited, I can't say, but Henry Ford and his boss, Alexander Dow, are both here and seated at the very same table as the company's founder. Yes, him. The man who made electric lighting commercially viable, AKA the old man, or the wizard of Menlo Park. Thomas Alva Edison. As the men eat and swap stories, conversation turns to horseless wagons. Specifically to electric cars. All agree that charging the battery is the crux of the issue. Then Alexander Dow points to his chief engineer and announces. This young fellow here has made a gas car. All eyes turn to Henry. Questions fly and he finds himself explaining the quadricycle to his electric minded colleagues. Or electric minded superiors rather. Then something extraordinary happens. His heart of hearing hero, T Alva Edison asks Henry to take a seat next to him. The wizard fixes his eyes on the young employee and asks, is it a four cycle engine? Henry answers, yes, it draws diagrams as the old man peppers him with questions. Eventually, the wizard of Menlo Park excitedly strikes the dining table and says to Henry, young man, that's the thing. You have it. Keep at it. Electric cars must keep near to power stations. The storage battery is too heavy. Steam cars won't do it either for they have to carry a boiler and fire. Your car is self contained. It carries its own power plant. Keep at it. Henry's tenacious, I doubt he was ever shaken by the taunts, his fellow Edison employees have thrown his way for using gas before tonight, but to hear such encouragement from the God of electricity himself. The young michigander is all the more determined. Tonight then is momentous. He leaves this dinner not only starting a lifelong friendship with his hero, Tia the Edison. He leaves all the more determined to do for the horseless carriage or car as it's now being called. What his men load mentor did for the incandescent light. Make it commercially viable for just about everyone. And thereby change the world. Come August 1899, Henry's ready to take a leap of faith. With the financial backing of investors, he quits his job at Edison illuminating, and founds the Detroit motor company. But like many car companies popping up at the turn of the century, it's a disaster. A perfectionist, Henry and his team only managed to produce ten vehicles. All heavy, bulky delivery trucks before the company dies 18 months later in January 1901. Financially strapped by undeterred, 38 year old Henry decides to prove his medal anew. He built a race car called sweepstakes and enters an automobile race at the grosse Pointe racetrack that October. Before a crowd of thousands, he not only holds his own, he defeats the nation's top car manufacturer, Alexander winton. Ah, Henry again has the eyes of investors in the next month, November, 1901, his second company, the Henry Ford company, is born. But with his mind on racing, not producing, and displeased at his mere one 6th ownership in the company, Henry and the enterprise part ways only months later in early 1902. His former partner soon changed the company's name to Cadillac. But the race world continues to pay off for Henry. In October, 1902, Barney oldfield drives Henry's latest creation, known as 9 9 9 to yet another victory over Alexander winton. Henry's 9 9 9 race car is a record setting vehicle, and this victory only grows the talented carmakers national reputation. But despite this victory, finances continue to be an issue. Henry and his latest partner, local coal dealer Alexander malcolmson, are strapped for cash and have bills to pay. Thus, on June 16th, 1903, Henry proves that, like Michael Scott from the TV show, the office, he, too, has no shortage of company names. While Henry and Alexander tank controlling interest by holding 25.5% of the company each, they transform their operation into the Ford Motor Company. In total, there are a dozen partners. Among them are the owners of the machine shop Henry's already using to fiery wild west like quick to get in a scrap siblings. John and Horace, better known as the Dodge brothers. It isn't long before the people of Detroit see horses hauling car chassis from the Dodge brothers Monroe street shop to the Ford Motor Company's plant on Mac avenue. Teams of two to three men then turn these chassis in Henry's latest design. The model a while some elements of this open carriage automobile have a slight quadricycle look, the model a is far sleeker with its gorgeous red paint, black leather seats and detachable tunnel, or backseat, if you will. Yeah, you can get this as a two or four seater. You can further splurge on the optional lamps, horn, and brass trimmings. The model a's two cylinder engine is also far more powerful than its 1896 ancestor. Try 8 horsepower and a top speed of nearly 30 mph. Oh, and another advantage over the quadricycle, the model a can go and reverse. This boss of the road as Ford Motor Company calls the model a, is available at the very reasonable price of $750, or 850 with the to know. But a possible crinkle comes from the association of licensed automobile manufacturers. It refuses to license Ford Motor Company, then asserts that Ford is violating George selden's patent on gasoline automobiles. And further, threatens to sue the company's customers. But the Detroit based company collapsed back. It's willing to fight the legitimacy of this patent in the name of a man who never even successfully built the gas powered card, which is patently claim. And promises to cover its customers in the event of a lawsuit. Thus, Americans begin to buy the model a, as these legal issues play in the background. There are other growing pains. Henry dies inside with every reported complaint and breakdown, but his perfectionism won't kill yet another company. Not with James cousins around. He keeps the
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"Three years pass. In 1879, 17 year old Henry and his rudimentary education leave Dearborn for Detroit. Henry will later overstate his father's opposition to this. While it's true that William Ford would prefer that his eldest son farm, he understands that Henry needs to explore this new, exciting industrializing world's machines. He further understands that Henry can't do that without relocating to Detroit. And so, the slender square jawed teen moves to that growing city of over a 100,000 people with his father's consent. He boards with his aunt, his father's sister, Rebecca fort flaherty. The next few years are a period of various jobs and hands on learning. His first job is at the Michigan car works. No, not that kind of car. These are street cars. Henry's fired in 6 days. We'll never know why. He soon employed again, though likely thanks to his father's friendship with James flower, who hires the young Ford boy as his machine shop. Henry makes a friend for life, the young floor sweep, Fred Strauss, and learns to shape brass valves with small milling machines. But since the pay is poor and he's short on rent to his aunt, energetic Henry gets a second job fixing watches. He then returns to Dearborn to help the family with the harvest in 1880, but goes back to Detroit that same fault to work with a bigger operation. Detroit dry dock engine works. This pattern of working with and learning about machines in the big city and bouncing back to the family farm continues. Oddly enough, though, one of these returning sojourns to the farm proves invaluable to Henry's experience with machines. In 1882, William Ford's Dearborn neighbor and fellow farmer, John gleason, procures a portable steam engine. The Westinghouse, number three 45 the powerful engine can run grain thrashers and sawmills. It's also horseless. Yep, you can propel itself. This is an advanced high-tech machine, so John hires an engineer to man it. There's only one problem. The supposed pro quickly proves incapable. That's when John turns to his young machine wizard neighbor, Henry Ford for help. Henry's terrified on the inside. He doesn't let that show, though, as he says yes, and heads to the neighbor's farm. He looks over the wheel, black machine with its vertical boiler. What a beaut. But it's so intimidating. No matter Henry gets the firebox going. He adjusts the valves. And well, it turns out he's got this. John pays the 19 year old an astounding $3 a day to run his Westinghouse engine the whole summer. And the following year, Westinghouse road agent John Cheney hires Henry to fix the company's machines in Michigan and across the state line in Ohio. Meanwhile, Henry makes his own quote unquote farm locomotive or tractor as we'd call it. The contraption runs for a minute. It needs to be lighter and have more power. Um. This project has run its course, but shortly after entering his 20s and enrolling at a Detroit business school, the gifted engineer meets an engine unlike any other, with potential to power other future projects. All right, time out. What I'm introducing here is called the internal combustion engine. And we need some basics on what this is before Henry reaches for his wrench. Thus far, Henry's worked on steam engines. And these, fuel, such as coal or wood, burn and heat water, thus creating high pressure steam that travels to a cylinder and pushes a thing inside called a piston. As the piston traverses the cylinder, it can power machines. Like locomotives. But with the internal combustion engine, the fuel doesn't burn outside the cylinder, it burns inside the cylinder. Belgium's Etienne lenoir figured out the rudiment phrase of it around 1860, and even powered a primitive horseless carriage shortly thereafter. Germany's Nicholas Otto made improvements. In 1876, he built an internal combustion engine with a four stroke cycle. This means the piston strokes across the cylinder four times. Think two full revolutions down up once, down up twice. To complete one cycle. Each of these strokes does a different thing. As Henry explains it quote, the first stroke draws in the gas, the second compresses it, the third is the explosion or power stroke, while the fourth stroke exhausts the waist gas. But wait. What's this gas Henry's talking about? What could technically be a number of different fuels? Early auto engines run on coal gas, for instance, but riding decades from now, Henry specifically referring to a substance once thought a useless byproduct of crude oils refining process. Gasoline, AKA petrol. With the rise of the internal combustion engine, people around the world are realizing gasoline can actually serve as a powerful fuel. If you didn't quite follow all of that, no worries. The key thing is that by the mid 1880s, about the same time another German named Carl Benz is selling his gas powered tricycle looking motor wagon. Nicholas Otto's four stroke auto engine is being sold around the world. In 1885, one of these autos is at the eagle iron works in Detroit and in need of fixing. Henry's never seen an auto engine. But of course, he's called upon to repair it and does so beautifully. Gaining familiarity with the four stroke auto engine isn't the only noteworthy thing for Henry in 1885 though. Back in the Dearborn area, he meets a beautiful farm girl at a dance named Clara Jane Bryant. He pines for her most of the year, hoping to cross paths again and finally does that Christmas. They court for two more years, and Marion Claire is 22nd birthday. April 11th, 1888. They built a square shaped house on land offered up by Henry's father. It must be a relief for William Ford to see his mechanic's son finally settle in on a farm. Even if Henry's more interested in being a steam powered lumberjack than planting. But the truth is, Henry's not content. His interest in horseless carriages is deepening. He keeps bringing it up with family, including his wife Clara, whose faith in her husband's abilities is so great, he calls her the believer. At the same time, he still fixing auto engines, which uses an electric spark to get going. But Henry doesn't know Jack about electricity. He's got to change that. And he will. It's sometime in September, 1891. We're at the Edison illuminating companies main Detroit office at the corner of Washington boulevard in state street. The heavily mustachioed mutton chopped general manager. Charles Phelps Gilbert is preparing to head out the door. But just as he Dons his hat, a slender, blue eyed 28 year old man walks in. Young fellow asks, who's in charge here? Charles answers. I am. What can I do for you? I'm an engineer. Have you any work I can do? How much do you know about the work? I know as much as anyone in my age. Well, I do think we have a place for you. A man was killed last week down at our substation, and we need someone in his place right away. Henry takes this job at the Edison illuminating company. He and his unwavering believer wife, Clara, leave their square farmhouse for the mechanical world of Detroit. But does Henry pause to think about the fact that, while he can easily handle the company's steam engines, he's just fibbed his way into working with a power source so dangerous it killed the last man he's replacing. A man who undoubtedly knew more about it than him. If Henry has doubts, he doesn't show it. His obsession with internal combustion and horseless carriages is only growing, and he must learn about electricity. It's a risk he's willing to take.
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"Henry Ford isn't the inventor of the automobile. But he is the one who brings the car to the people. He makes it accessible. A fee to accomplished with his model T yet, how does a farm boy a mechanic renting a duplex go from building a little quadricycle in his shed to flooding the nation with this iconic car? That path and impact is today's story. To follow this tale, we've got to go back to Henry's roots. We'll meet him as a boy and follow his machine loving path to employment at Detroit's Edison illuminating company. Henry will then struggle through failed car companies, rebuild himself through racing and finally create the car that takes first place in a transcontinental contest and in America's heart. The model T he'll do this while fighting a questionable car limiting patent, keeping up with the demand for his car by creating what we call mass production, and then shocking the world by more than doubling his wage workers pay and still making the most affordable car in the nation. But it's not all good times. While also hear about the social demands he puts on those well paid workers. And while I can't give you Henry's whole life story in a single episode, we can't overlook his anti semitic publications. We'll treat that as well, thus getting a full, three dimensional view of Henry. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Got your duster, gloves, and goggles, good. You'll want them. We have dusty roads ahead. But first, let's meet young Henry in the mid 19th century. Rewind. Born only weeks after the Civil War's pivotal battles of Gettysburg and vicksburg. On July 30th, 1863, Henry Ford starts life the same way many Americans of the era do. On a farm. And frankly, Henry's English descent by Irish born immigrant father William Ford wouldn't have it any other way. Now a Michigan man, William tried the hustle and bustle of Detroit. He didn't care for it. Williams far more content living ten miles west of the city, working his 40 acre Dearborn farm and making a life with his young wife, Mary. After the heartbreak of one stillborn, the couple is elated to have Henry into their lives. Though gladly welcome another three boys and two girls in the years to come. But unlike his pops, the young, first born Ford, doesn't love farming. Don't get me wrong. Henry has a deep love for birds, and will leave one future reporter mulling over whether he's a mechanic with a bent for farming or a farmer with a bent for mechanics. The reporter will land on the ladder. But Henry doesn't care for horses, particularly after a wagon accident. He hates cows. And as for laboring on his family's farm, the later right in his autobiography, my earliest recollection is that, considering the results, there's too much work on the place. That is the way I still feel about farming. Okay, clearly, the monotony of farming isn't Henry's thing. But the growing four child soon finds his thing. Machines. Yes, he considers anything that ticks worth his time. At 7 years old, the same age he starts his mcguffey reader education prank pulling and friendship with edsel Redick at Dearborn's one room schoolhouse. Henry finds himself captivated by a pocket watch. His father's farm hand Adolf culling opens the back of his and lets the growing likeable prankster appear inside. The bearings, the cogs, Henry's completely taken in. Soon, the lads making his own tools and cracking open anything that ticks. His younger sister Margaret will later recall, when we had mechanical or wind up toys given to us at Christmas, we always said, don't let Henry have them. It just takes them apart. He wanted to see what made them go rather than just watching them go. But Henry doesn't ruin mechanical things. After taking apart a machine, he can fix it, improve it even. Growing older, he adolescent begins fixing neighbors broken clocks and watches, as well as experimenting with his own machines. One day, after visiting Detroit and seen steam powered locomotives, young Henry convinces his buddies to build a basic steam engine. Building a fire, they boil water in a large drum with a pipe running to a small tin turbine. Sure enough, the steam gets their little turbine moving, but then it explodes. The school's fence catches fire into brief flies everywhere. One piece strikes Henry in the face. While there are no serious ramifications, Phil bear a slight scar on his cheek for the rest of his life. But Henry's childhood isn't perfectly idyllic. In March, 1876, the 12 year old farm boy has his first brush with deep devastating pain. Two weeks after giving birth to her 8th child, his mother, Mary Ford, and the baby both pass. Years later, the recall that I thought a great wrong had been done to me. It's a feeling that many who've lost a parent knows. Henry will always remember her as kind, gentle. One who loved unconditionally, and he cherished her support later noting that. Quote, my mother always said that I was born a mechanic. Conversely, the view his farmer father, who has no special interest in or draw to machines as authoritarian. It's hard to say if Henry's pain teenage recollections are fair to the widower father of 6 as he carries his own grief, but that's the boy's view. Yet, as dark and dreary a shadow is Mary Ford's death throws on her adolescent son. Henry experiences another far more positive life-changing event, only months later. It's an unspecified summer day, 1876. 12 year old Henry is 8 miles outside Detroit, riding with his father and the family's horse drawn wagon. But as they traverse the country's dirt roads, youth hears a steam engine. The sound grows louder as Henry's eyes are drawn to a pillar of smoke, piercing the farmland sky. But as he and his father ride closer, Henry's baffled. This steam engine isn't just powering tools. It's carrying a wagon that's moving without horses. The man operated a contraption pulls to the side of the dirt road to let the Fords pass. But Henry has no intention of moving on. The boy leaps from his father's wagon and approaches the operator. Henry has so many questions about his machine. Well, the engineer as Henry will dub the man when recalling this moment happily shows off his state of the art tech. This is incredible. Although this portable steam engine's purpose is to power threshing machines and sawmills, this portable steam engine and boiler on wheels, its trailing water tank, coal cart combo. All of it can really move on its own. Now, the idea of an experiments with horseless carriages isn't unheard of, but this is the first time Henry scene one. It's thrilling. He'll later recall the moment in detail. I had seen plenty of these engines hauled around by horses, but this one had a chain that made a connection between the engine and the rear wheels of the wagon like frame on which the boiler was mounted. The engine was placed over the boiler and one man standing on the platform behind the boiler shoveled coal managed the throttle and did the steering. Self propulsion might not be its main feature, but this first brush with a horseless wagon leaves Henry and awe. He takes note of the manufacturer, Nichols shepherd and company, and crucially of how the simple movement of a belt could allow the engine to keep running, yet, in a neutral or idle state without propelling the wagon forward. All of this is seared into his mind.
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"henry ford" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Henry Ford isn't the inventor of the automobile. But he is the one who brings the car to the people. He makes it accessible. A fee to accomplished with his model T yet, how does a farm boy a mechanic renting a duplex go from building a little quadricycle in his shed to flooding the nation with this iconic car? That path and impact is today's story. To follow this tale, we've got to go back to Henry's roots. We'll meet him as a boy and follow his machine loving path to employment at Detroit's Edison illuminating company. Henry will then struggle through failed car companies, rebuild himself through racing and finally create the car that takes first place in a transcontinental contest and in America's heart. The model T he'll do this while fighting a questionable car limiting patent, keeping up with the demand for his car by creating what we call mass production, and then shocking the world by more than doubling his wage workers pay and still making the most affordable car in the nation. But it's not all good times. While also hear about the social demands he puts on those well paid workers. And while I can't give you Henry's whole life story in a single episode, we can't overlook his anti semitic publications. We'll treat that as well, thus getting a full, three dimensional view of Henry. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Got your duster, gloves, and goggles, good. You'll want them. We have dusty roads ahead. But first, let's meet young Henry in the mid 19th century. Rewind. Born only weeks after the Civil War's pivotal battles of Gettysburg and vicksburg. On July 30th, 1863, Henry Ford starts life the same way many Americans of the era do. On a farm. And frankly, Henry's English descent by Irish born immigrant father William Ford wouldn't have it any other way. Now a Michigan man, William tried the hustle and bustle of Detroit. He didn't care for it. Williams far more content living ten miles west of the city, working his 40 acre Dearborn farm and making a life with his young wife, Mary. After the heartbreak of one stillborn, the couple is elated to have Henry into their lives. Though gladly welcome another three boys and two girls in the years to come. But unlike his pops, the young, first born Ford, doesn't love farming. Don't get me wrong. Henry has a deep love for birds, and will leave one future reporter mulling over whether he's a mechanic with a bent for farming or a farmer with a bent for mechanics. The reporter will land on the ladder. But Henry doesn't care for horses, particularly after a wagon accident. He hates cows. And as for laboring on his family's farm, the later right in his autobiography, my earliest recollection is that, considering the results, there's too much work on the place. That is the way I still feel about farming. Okay, clearly, the monotony of farming isn't Henry's thing. But the growing four child soon finds his thing. Machines. Yes, he considers anything that ticks worth his time. At 7 years old, the same age he starts his mcguffey reader education prank pulling and friendship with edsel Redick at Dearborn's one room schoolhouse. Henry finds himself captivated by a pocket watch. His father's farm hand Adolf culling opens the back of his and lets the growing likeable prankster appear inside. The bearings, the cogs, Henry's completely taken in. Soon, the lads making his own tools and cracking open anything that ticks. His younger sister Margaret will later recall, when we had mechanical or wind up toys given to us at Christmas, we always said, don't let Henry have them. It just takes them apart. He wanted to see what made them go rather than just watching them go. But Henry doesn't ruin mechanical things. After taking apart a machine, he can fix it, improve it even. Growing older, he adolescent begins fixing neighbors broken clocks and watches, as well as experimenting with his own machines. One day, after visiting Detroit and seen steam powered locomotives, young Henry convinces his buddies to build a basic steam engine. Building a fire, they boil water in a large drum with a pipe running to a small tin turbine. Sure enough, the steam gets their little turbine moving, but then it explodes. The school's fence catches fire into brief flies everywhere. One piece strikes Henry in the face. While there are no serious ramifications, Phil bear a slight scar on his cheek for the rest of his life. But Henry's childhood isn't perfectly idyllic. In March, 1876, the 12 year old farm boy has his first brush with deep devastating pain. Two weeks after giving birth to her 8th child, his mother, Mary Ford, and the baby both pass. Years later, the recall that I thought a great wrong had been done to me. It's a feeling that many who've lost a parent knows. Henry will always remember her as kind, gentle. One who loved unconditionally, and he cherished her support later noting that. Quote, my mother always said that I was born a mechanic. Conversely, the view his farmer father, who has no special interest in or draw to machines as authoritarian. It's hard to say if Henry's pain teenage recollections are fair to the widower father of 6 as he carries his own grief, but that's the boy's view. Yet, as dark and dreary a shadow is Mary Ford's death throws on her adolescent son. Henry experiences another far more positive life-changing event, only months later. It's an unspecified summer day, 1876. 12 year old Henry is 8 miles outside Detroit, riding with his father and the family's horse drawn wagon. But as they traverse the country's dirt roads, youth hears a steam engine. The sound grows louder as Henry's eyes are drawn to a pillar of smoke, piercing the farmland sky. But as he and his father ride closer, Henry's baffled. This steam engine isn't just powering tools. It's carrying a wagon that's moving without horses. The man operated a contraption pulls to the side of the dirt road to let the Fords pass. But Henry has no intention of moving on. The boy leaps from his father's wagon and approaches the operator. Henry has so many questions about his machine. Well, the engineer as Henry will dub the man when recalling this moment happily shows off his state of the art tech. This is incredible. Although this portable steam engine's purpose is to power threshing machines and sawmills, this portable steam engine and boiler on wheels, its trailing water tank, coal cart combo. All of it can really move on its own. Now, the idea of an experiments with horseless carriages isn't unheard of, but this is the first time Henry scene one. It's thrilling. He'll later recall the moment in detail. I had seen plenty of these engines hauled around by horses, but this one had a chain that made a connection between the engine and the rear wheels of the wagon like frame on which the boiler was mounted. The engine was placed over the boiler and one man standing on the platform behind the boiler shoveled coal managed the throttle and did the steering. Self propulsion might not be its main feature, but this first brush with a horseless wagon leaves Henry and awe. He takes note of the manufacturer, Nichols shepherd and company, and crucially of how the simple movement of a belt could allow the engine to keep running, yet, in a neutral or idle state without propelling the wagon forward. All of this is seared into his mind.
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"henry ford" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Midnight, June 4th, 1896. We're behind a brick built duplex at 58 Bagley avenue, Detroit, Michigan, and a red brick shed where two men are feverishly at work on something they call a quadricycle. Basically, it's a lightweight carriage or buddy that they'll soon mount on a light frame with four 28 inch bicycle wheels. Cool, right? But this isn't just a minimalist carriage. They intend to propel it forward with a gasoline powered two cylinder internal combustion engine. That's right. These two friends both employees at the Edison illuminating company are a part of the growing horseless carriage craze. But for one of them, craze isn't the right word. It's more like a years long obsession that's taken every spare minute in recent months, and almost every minute in the last 48 hours. I'm talking about the brown haired blue eyed square jawed 32 year old renting the home and shed at this address. Henry Ford. Finally ready? Henry and his friend, Jim bishop, lift the buggy's body from the saw horses. And place it on the bike wheel chassis. Oh, we're getting close. Once the body and frame are attached, Henry carefully threads a several feet long, one and an 8th inch chain between two sprocket wheels and tightens it. With this chain in place, the two cylinder motor mounted in the back should be able to send its piston power to the buggy's four wire spoke wheels. Okay, in theory, this is done. Time to test it out. But Henry and Jim come to a horrific realization pushing the quadricycle toward the shed's door. It's too wide to exit. Well, Henry hasn't come this far to let a narrow door get in his way. Grabbing an axe from the woodshed, he attacks the mason work around the doorway, smashing out the needed path. As for what his landlord will think, what can I say? Henry's more of a ask for forgiveness than permission type. Finally, some time passed 2 a.m. and amid light ring fall. The duo have their automobile machine outside. Henry's wife, Clara, and little three year old son edsel, watch from the front steps. They look on with faith in their husband and father, ready to see his incredibly light and fast horseless carriage fly down Bagley avenue. They've always believed in him. And how's the moment? It's time to see, as the saying will one day go. If rubber meets the road. Henry gets the battery operated igniter going and spins the flywheel. So far so good. The young mechanic then mounts his machine and sits on its bicycle seat. Yeah, the buggy seat he ordered isn't here yet. So he's made do. Henry places one hand on the tiller to steer, and he grabs the clutch lever that engages the drive belt with the honor. He then pulls that lever back and whoo. He's off. Clara and little Edson being with pride as he tears down the street at an astounding 10 mph. With Jim riding a bike ahead of him to clear the path for their brakeless invention, can we continue for a few blocks? Does he engage the quadricycle second, 20 mph gear? I'm guessing he does. This is a proper test drive after all. Either way, he soon hits trouble. Jim, who still ahead on the bike surface back. It's too dark to look the quadricycle over here in the road. But they aren't far from work. They push the machine along the cobblestone street to the Edison illuminating plant, and there, Henry finds the issue. He's lost a valve stem nut. Curious onlookers at the Cadillac hotel watch as Henry replaces him. He and Jim then return triumphantly to his home, on bad avenue. It's now later in the day. Henry's back home from work, and he's brought two other Edison employees with him. They're masons. Here to fix the shed. Oh, he's hoping to Dodge a bullet here. But that's not going to happen. The Ford's landlord, William riford has just arrived to collect the rent. Sure, masons are fixing the shed, but Williams furious. He angrily demands why Henry demolished the doorway and wall. Henry tells him the truth, he had just finished building a horseless carriage and needed to get it out. Immediately, Williams countenance changes from one of wrath to curiosity. He asks, you ran it. Yes, sir. Let me see. William is filled with awe as he takes in the quadricycle. He then looks back to his young Tenet with a suggestion. Say, if these fellows put the wall back up, how are you going to get your car out again? I've got an idea. Tell the bricklayers to leave the opening, and then you can put on swinging doors. That will let you in and out. What an end to the day. Henry's not only brought his own model of a horseless carriage to life. A fast, light model at that. He's gotten his after the fact forgiveness and the landlord's blessing to turn the shed into the United States first automobile garage. But this is only the beginning for Henry. Soon enough, this young michigander this farmer turned mechanic is going to change the whole nation with his horses carriages. He's going to change the world.
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"henry ford" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Midnight, June 4th, 1896. We're behind a brick built duplex at 58 Bagley avenue, Detroit, Michigan, and a red brick shed where two men are feverishly at work on something they call a quadricycle. Basically, it's a lightweight carriage or buddy that they'll soon mount on a light frame with four 28 inch bicycle wheels. Cool, right? But this isn't just a minimalist carriage. They intend to propel it forward with a gasoline powered two cylinder internal combustion engine. That's right. These two friends both employees at the Edison illuminating company are a part of the growing horseless carriage craze. But for one of them, craze isn't the right word. It's more like a years long obsession that's taken every spare minute in recent months, and almost every minute in the last 48 hours. I'm talking about the brown haired blue eyed square jawed 32 year old renting the home and shed at this address. Henry Ford. Finally ready? Henry and his friend, Jim bishop, lift the buggy's body from the saw horses. And place it on the bike wheel chassis. Oh, we're getting close. Once the body and frame are attached, Henry carefully threads a several feet long, one and an 8th inch chain between two sprocket wheels and tightens it. With this chain in place, the two cylinder motor mounted in the back should be able to send its piston power to the buggy's four wire spoke wheels. Okay, in theory, this is done. Time to test it out. But Henry and Jim come to a horrific realization pushing the quadricycle toward the shed's door. It's too wide to exit. Well, Henry hasn't come this far to let a narrow door get in his way. Grabbing an axe from the woodshed, he attacks the mason work around the doorway, smashing out the needed path. As for what his landlord will think, what can I say? Henry's more of a ask for forgiveness than permission type. Finally, some time passed 2 a.m. and amid light ring fall. The duo have their automobile machine outside. Henry's wife, Clara, and little three year old son edsel, watch from the front steps. They look on with faith in their husband and father, ready to see his incredibly light and fast horseless carriage fly down Bagley avenue. They've always believed in him. And how's the moment? It's time to see, as the saying will one day go. If rubber meets the road. Henry gets the battery operated igniter going and spins the flywheel. So far so good. The young mechanic then mounts his machine and sits on its bicycle seat. Yeah, the buggy seat he ordered isn't here yet. So he's made do. Henry places one hand on the tiller to steer, and he grabs the clutch lever that engages the drive belt with the honor. He then pulls that lever back and whoo. He's off. Clara and little Edson being with pride as he tears down the street at an astounding 10 mph. With Jim riding a bike ahead of him to clear the path for their brakeless invention, can we continue for a few blocks? Does he engage the quadricycle second, 20 mph gear? I'm guessing he does. This is a proper test drive after all. Either way, he soon hits trouble. Jim, who still ahead on the bike surface back. It's too dark to look the quadricycle over here in the road. But they aren't far from work. They push the machine along the cobblestone street to the Edison illuminating plant, and there, Henry finds the issue. He's lost a valve stem nut. Curious onlookers at the Cadillac hotel watch as Henry replaces him. He and Jim then return triumphantly to his home, on bad avenue. It's now later in the day. Henry's back home from work, and he's brought two other Edison employees with him. They're masons. Here to fix the shed. Oh, he's hoping to Dodge a bullet here. But that's not going to happen. The Ford's landlord, William riford has just arrived to collect the rent. Sure, masons are fixing the shed, but Williams furious. He angrily demands why Henry demolished the doorway and wall. Henry tells him the truth, he had just finished building a horseless carriage and needed to get it out. Immediately, Williams countenance changes from one of wrath to curiosity. He asks, you ran it. Yes, sir. Let me see. William is filled with awe as he takes in the quadricycle. He then looks back to his young Tenet with a suggestion. Say, if these fellows put the wall back up, how are you going to get your car out again? I've got an idea. Tell the bricklayers to leave the opening, and then you can put on swinging doors. That will let you in and out. What an end to the day. Henry's not only brought his own model of a horseless carriage to life. A fast, light model at that. He's gotten his after the fact forgiveness and the landlord's blessing to turn the shed into the United States first automobile garage. But this is only the beginning for Henry. Soon enough, this young michigander this farmer turned mechanic is going to change the whole nation with his horses carriages. He's going to change the world.
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"henry ford" Discussed on Auto Archives
"Cars changed the way people lived worked and enjoyed leisure time. However, what most people don't realize is that the process of manufacturing automobiles had an equally significant impact on the industry. Henry Ford established his assembly line at his highland park plant on December 1st, 1913. This would revolutionize the automobile industry, and the concept of manufacturing worldwide. Henry Ford was not a newcomer to the business of the automobile manufacturing. He built his first car which he christened the quadricycle in 1896. In 1903, he officially opened the Ford Motor Company and 5 years later released the first model T Ford had been trying to increase his factories productivity for years. The workers who built his model end cars, the model T's predecessors, arranged the parts in a row on the floor. Put the under construction auto skins on skids and dragged it down the line as they worked. Later, the streamlining process grew more sophisticated. Ford broke the model T's assembly into 84 discrete steps and trained each of his workers to do just one. He also hired motion study expert Frederick Taylor to make those jobs even more efficient. Meanwhile he built machines that could stamp out parts automatically. And much more quickly than even the fastest human worker could. Although the model T was the 9th automobile Ford created, it would be the first model which would achieve wide popularity. Even today, the model T remains an icon for the still existing Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford had a goal of making automobiles for the multitudes. The model T was his answer to that dream. He wanted them to be both sturdy and cheap. In an effort to make the model T's cheaply at first, Ford cut out extravagant options. Buyers couldn't even choose a pink color. They were all black. Mister Ford said any customer can have a car painted any color he wants. So long as it's black. By the end of the production, however, the cars would be available in a wide variety of colors, with a wide variety of custom bodies. The costs of the first model T was set at $850, which was approximately 2100 in today's currency. That was cheap. But still not cheap enough for the masses. Ford needed to find a way to cut down the prices even further. In 1910, with the aim of increasing manufacturing capacity for the Ford model T Ford built a new plant in highland park, Michigan. He created a building that would be easily expanded as new methods of production were incorporated. Ford consulted with Frederick Taylor, creator of scientific management, to examine the most efficient modes of production. Ford had previously observed the assembly line concept in slaughterhouses in the Midwest, and was also inspired by the conveyor belt that was common in many grain warehouses in that region. He wished to incorporate these ideas into the information tailor suggested to implement a new system in his own factory. One of the first innovations in production that Ford implemented was the installation of gravity slide that would facilitate the movement of parts from one work area to the next. Within the next three years,.
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"henry ford" Discussed on Real Estate Coaching Radio
"He was able to create thoughts and put things in implement things that were so far in advance that you have to really wonder how he was able to create this thing that wasn't this the next thing that was supposed to be developed or evolved. But it was so far beyond that. And it's really fascinating when you go through, for example, Edison's old sketches, he was sketching back when everyone thought a horse would stay at the art writing a horse or maybe a carriage. He was actually coming up with thoughts on how to create a motor vehicle. It wasn't Henry Ford, it wasn't damaged that created the first Mercedes or at least conceived of the first Mercedes. It went all the way back to differentiate. Now that's kind of amazing, don't you think? And so there's other technologists out there like that as well. But what I'm trying to make a point of is if Thomas Edison had been thinking like most of us think with regards to goal setting, that I'm just going to take the next natural step..
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
"henry ford" Discussed on The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
"Had made his workers so productive that he could afford to pay them more than anybody else member. These are not highly skilled workers who are on these production lines. They just had to be trained to do tasks and ford was able to pay them five dollars a day and still become one of the richest men in the world in the process by enriching all of his workers and in fact. I want to put this five dollars a day in perspective. Just so you really understand how much money is was back in one thousand nine fourteen. Because in nineteen fourteen the price goal was twenty dollars an ounce so if you got paid five dollars a day you got an ounce in a quarter per week of gold. That's what ford workers were paid. That means over the course of a year they were paid sixty five ounces of gold per year. That was the salary all right. Well what sixty five ounces of gold per year today well. Today's gold price of just over eighteen hundred dollars an ounce that equates to one hundred and twenty thousand dollars per year. That's how much ford workers were making in nineteen fourteen making today. Well look it up online. The average ford worker today makes about fifty thousand dollars a year compared to a hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year when henry ford the company and by the way when henry ford rand company there was no labor union. Ford was not unionized at that time and it didn't become unionized until much later in the future. So with out. Labor unions ford production workers were making the equivalent of one hundred twenty thousand dollars a year yet today with all the unions representing them. They're only making fifty thousand dollars a year. But you also have to remember that in one thousand nine hundred fourteen. Ford workers paid no federal income taxes. They also paid no social security taxes. No medicare taxes do nothing withheld from their paycheck. So they got that one hundred twenty thousand dollars a year after tax so in other words for ford worker to get one hundred twenty thousand dollars a year after tax after social security after federal income taxes after state income taxes..
Project Voice - Healthcare Summit - 2021
Voice-First Technology Will Play Its Greatest Role in Healthcare
"A want to begin this morning. Some commentary about healthcare. And what's going on with waste technology globally around healthcare. We believe voice. I technology will play. Its greatest role in the years ahead in the area of health. Care in artificial intelligence in healthcare will stand to automate allowed. The redundant repetitive tasks. That are concealing and taking up a lot of time. Specifically if you think back to henry ford and the the ford automotive wind the production line and modern assembling that that invention put the robot put the automation into human beings. And the promise of i is to take over some of the redundant repetitive tasks and get that robot out of healthcare out of the people and let people do in healthcare but only people can which isn't provide amazing care
Past Gas
How Ford Made the Worst Car Ever
"Edsel. Ford was born in eighteen ninety three in detroit. He grew up in the motor city before it was the motor city his entire childhood. He had a shotgun seat to watch his father. Henry ford build the automotive empire that shared his name. Big shoes big shoes. The shoes they say about big shoes to fill Edsel seem to share his dad's passions. He grew up tinkering with cars and learning everything. There was to know about engines and design and so looked up to his famous father. But unlike henry ford edsel was a kind man who enjoyed the finer things in life. He was stylish and aristocratic. In contrast to papa henry who famously hated anything frivolous or luxurious having a private chef at your camping trips. Yeah ron christie at your camping trips. Do we have to revisit the sixty-nine square no you don't have to get into him. Sixty nine hundred edison. But it happened one hundred percent for sure henry. Ford did sixty nine with thomas. Edison well for a more substantiate an example. Whenever henry visited edsels house edsel had to hide his fine wine collection. One want your dad to know that you had the good stuff. Do you guys have a wine collection. Not for very long. Yeah i've got a couple of wines. Why way me it was really bad. We're keeping that edsel believe that the ford motor company needed to look towards the future but his father was increasingly obsessed with the past for instance. Anyone who mentioned decommissioning. The model t was fired. Why would you even think about doing that if you're like yeah well at. This point is pretty old car although their relationship was what we might call today. Toxic henry ford still taught us on how to run the company. Henry ford started the ford motor company in nineteen. Oh three and in one thousand nine hundred henry step down and name president of the company
Startups For the Rest of Us
Faster Horses & Product Myths
"Always been annoyed with the quotes from the steve. Jobs is and the henry. Ford's where it's like if i don't do focus groups if i'd asked people what they wanted they would have wanted a faster horse and instead i get built on a car. Here's why those quotes number one. It's unlikely you have the resources. That steve jobs and henry ford did by the time. Steve jobs was. I think it was twenty. Who's worth a million by. The time is twenty one hundred ten million. By the time he's twenty two is worth one hundred million and a lot of that was on the back of this incredible once in a generation. Invention that steve wozniak had designed it was called the apple one. And that's what made them. They have all this amazingness. After that steve jobs then proceeded to launch failure after failure from the lisa to the original macintosh which eventually became successful but it was a train wreck when it launched to the apple. Newton fail fail fail. Who's running the company so poorly that he got kicked out the board voted him out and you know he went off. And if you read the book. I think it's called becoming steve jobs. It's about the a lot about the interim years and how he matured during that time and then he did figure himself out when he came back to apple in the late nineties he was amazing and he was an amazing not only business product person before that yes. He was a good marketer. Yes he could talk yes. He could stare at people and convince them to do things that they were. You know maybe shouldn't do. They were scared to do he could. You'd say it's either persuasion intimidation or something. But he was not a great product person in the early days was wozniak and obviously jobs learned this and did become that overtime. All that said these luminaries are quoted. In and i feel like it's this myth of she. Should you listen to your customers or not. There's an in-between. Because when henry ford says that people would have asked for a faster horse. That's like saying i asked my customers what they wanted and they said that they want a button in my interface to download and then make changes and re uploaded. So are you going to give them exactly what they want. Or you going to put your product hat on. Maybe your vision hat your founder gut feel hat and say that's a dumb idea. There's a ways your way to do that. Why don't i just build a lightweight kind of accel manipulation widget within my app and on. This is just an example. I'm saying that's the best the better or the worst way to do it. But if you're product person you never take customer suggestions and build what they want because you wind up with crap software you wind up with a million settings you wind up with terrible. You actually end up a terrible. Ui because customers are not product people. They're not experts for the most part in general so when henry ford says they were asking a faster horse i put on my visionary my product tat and i think what are they act. What's the job done. Well they want something that moves faster than a horse so what can do that. We'll trains can do that these days. Right locomotives in what is one thousand five hundred. Ten locomotives can do that. So can we build a locomotive that run something. that's not on rails right that's the type of innovation that that ford put into place so to take his quote and to act like don't listen to customers at all. I think a grave misuse of that as product people and that instead of taking exactly verbatim literally what customer said and building that into your app. There's a balance here right. It's that product vision that you have. Where do i want my product to go. And how do i want to feel and how they want it to be used to build in it and not build in it. What i wanted to become not become because i tell you. In the early days of drip people want us to build affiliate management software into it because a competitor had it. They want us to build shopping cart into landing pages where all these things that other competitors had built and we're opinionated enough that we said our opinion is that we should integrate with best of breed and so we have thirty five tier one integrations by the time we were you know year and a half two years into drip and that was the approach. We take that was our opinionated stance on whether we're going to make this thing and all in one. i'll say monstrosity. All in windsor monstrosities. But that's what i felt like is that would be a worst in class and we'd have five tools built into one or we could be best in class marketing automation and integrate with the other. Best in class. So that's my stance on this whole henry ford quote and i'd love to hear your thoughts. Maybe i'll tweet this out to get a conversation going because it kills me every time someone says it. It rubs me the wrong way that it's it's touted as this this big grandiose thing of. I'm such an innovator look at me and it's like no you actually. Yes you did you invent head and you did. Innovate in the way that you solved customers problems but then don't go back and say i didn't do anything customers we're asking for because they were actually asking for a car they just didn't know it.
Talk 1260 KTRC Programming
Henry Ford's great-great grandchildren nominated to automaker's board
"Forward English is poised to become the first female board member of the automaker in 118 years. She's a 33 year old great great granddaughter of founder Henry Ford. So she still has to be elected by shareholders. There's little chance that she won't be. According to CNN. There are been female Ford family members serving his executives of the company, but it's the first time one would be on the board.
The Teachers Impact
Teacher Efficacy? 5 Ways to Develop this Key Mindset
"On this episode. We'll be talking about five ways to develop your teacher efficacy on episode twenty one. We talked about the highest impact on student achievement. Is collective teacher efficacy. So on this episode. I thought we could dive a little deeper and explore how to develop your teacher advocacy teacher. Efficacy is defined as cope teachers confidence in their ability to promote student learning. In other words you believe about your abilities as a teacher is in direct proportion to you promoting student learning this makes me think of henry ford's quote whether you think you can or you think you can't you're right and again i'm not saying yes. If you start to think positive overnight your students are going to learn and grow however we need to make sure that we have our belief system and have belief in our abilities that we can promote student learning the develop. Your teacher. Efficacy is to work through and challenge your prejudices and stereotypes and stereotypes that you may have and s humans we all have stereotypes and prejudices that we need to examine in order to be our best selves. Teachers can sometimes unknowingly carry these stereotypes and prejudices into their classroom for example. One may believe that because students are at risk. There is nothing that the teacher can do to help them when in actuality if the teacher believe in his or her ability that she can help the go at risk child then this might make a difference in that students outcome and i think it also works the other way around at one point in my career had to give the student in my classroom and i needed to meet her needs. I had to work through my believe that teaching gifted students hard and so i worked at the students. I found strategies and teaching methods to help her so that she could learn and the the second way to develop your teacher. Efficacy is to examine your expectations about the students. You teach and. I want you to think about patients that you have for the students. Ut and ask yourself these questions do you believe that. They haven't performed well in previous years than there is no possible way for them to do well in your class. Do you think advanced concepts in your subject. Area is too difficult for students to understand. So you shy away from projects and real world learning when a student rises above your expectations. How do you respond. These are some questions to help you. Think about your student expectations and how you can should adjust them to enhance student. Learning and develop your teacher efficacy. The third way to develop your teacher. Efficacy is to observe another effective teacher. And i want to put an emphasis on effective. This is sometimes harvard. Teacher is because you may think that observing another teacher means that you're not a good teacher but we need to let go of that. That's far from the case. You're learning to see what would work if you observe another teacher. The has the same students as. You're the same background same demographics you'll be able to see that. There can be resolved with those students. Those students are able to achieve at high levels. The fourth way to develop your teacher advocacy is to be open to new ways of learning and teaching. It's easy to get stuck in a rut. Because what you've been doing works for you in your teaching. Once the experiment with different ways of teaching and learning you'll get more confidence teaching abilities which increases your efficacy number five. Use your past successes to build on your current teaching. Think about the successes you've had in the past and how those teaching experiences major students successful part of those experiences. Can you replicate throughout your teaching. So you can enhance student learning for example. I've plan and some lesson and created a project for students in kindergarten and what went. Well was that my students who took High-performers were the students who perform well on this project base learning lesson so with that. I knew that. I had to replicate by giving students more stem based project because it would help the classroom to show demonstration in other ways besides tests and quizzes and writing sell some key takeaways from this episode. One work through and challenge your prejudices and stereotypes number to examine your expectations about the students. You teach number three observe another highly effective teacher that has a similar demographic as students number four the open to new ways of teaching and learning number five successes to build on your current teaching before. We end this episode. I wanted to let you know that if you're struggling with classroom management and need help. I created a micro training and you can learn more at teachers. Impact dot net slash courses will make sure to go and check it out
SGGQA Podcast – SomeGadgetGuy
Cardiologists say iPhone 12 could pose danger to people with defibrillators, pacemakers
"This was also shared on the The discord we talked about this a couple of weeks back just kind of highlighting it as a news article but now there's actually been a little bit more study into this phenomenon. I'm not going to go too much into this Henry ford cardiologists find iphone. Twelve magnet deactivates implantable cardiac devices. So this has been just a just a little bit more medical data a little bit more. Study this is from february fourth. They held a media briefing. I'm talking about differ. Defin- brewers and the iphone twelve. And that this is a little bit different than what apple was trying to claim apple. Apple's claim is. We've always said that you know the electrical and magnetic interference from pocket. Computers is a concern for people who have pace makers other durable medical equipment. And so they they don't feel that there's any additional I'm totally paraphrasing apple. Pr here and please don't take this is like this is a direct quote from apple and they said like whatever So from what. I read on apple. Pr apple forums is. Apple doesn't feel like they need to make any additional disclosure to the safety of their products. Cardiologists are are pointing to a slightly different relationship because the iphone twelve Magnets for their wireless charging system are more powerful that this is a slightly different situation than previous generations of iphone. We mentioned it. We had a very similar conversation. When this i was brought up that this could be an issue. My dad doesn't have a pacemaker. But is absolutely that person who would take a smaller phone and put it in a shirt or jacket pocket. So i feel this is just another piece of evidence. A proper group of cardiologists held a medical briefing. That you can share with your family and friends just two point two. Hey you have a pacemaker. If you buy the iphone twelve keep it in your pocket. And then we're good. But i do feel like a just a little additional disclosure. A conversation seems to be warranted. As the design of the iphone twelve is different than the than the magnetic design of the iphone eleven. I think that's fair. It's not a don't buy almost gosh so scary. It's gonna kill your grandparents. That's not it. But i feel like yeah. It's fair to have that conversation with your family and friends
Hands-On Tech
Mustang Mach-E First Drive Review - Ford's All-New New Electric Crossover
"The car driving today is unique for four if their ever history fully electric battery electric vehicle designed from the ground up to be electric unlike some other early eighties like the nissan leaf. You know where. They decided to go for efficiency. Make it as a compact car for decided to go for the heart of the market. They what they really did was. They learned from tesla looked at. You know what tesla was doing. And how tesla was succeeding. That was making cars. Were cool looking. At cool technology had good performance And offer great range and ford decided to start with a compact midsize. upper compact. You know mid size crossover market is today. That's what people wanna buy It's getting close to suv's and crossovers are about forty percent of the us car market now and so the originally conceived this vehicle announced early twenty seventeen as a more conventional tross over. It was basically you know it was going to be front wheel drive. More something like Electric version of the escape Which is very popular compact. Crossover for four but late. Two thousand seventeen. They decided to completely change direction. They realized that that was not a car that was going to get people excited to buy an ev from ford. And so what they did instead was. They said okay. What's our what's our icon. What what is the vehicle that really gets people excited and within ford. The mustang is considered the heart and soul of the brand. It's by no means the best selling car but is the car they build that is representative of so many things for fun to drive. You know the racing history. Ford ford's racing. History goes back to before there was a ford motor company. Henry ford won the money that he used to start ford motor company by winning a race winning the vanderbilt cup and so the The they decided to use mustang as the inspiration for this car and and the end You know what they came up with was a crossover that has mustang design cues but they also knew that if they were gonna put the mustang badge on it that they needed to make it something that would fail. Drive a mustang. It's obviously a car. That's much taller than a traditional mustang. But because it's electric. That has the battery in the floor underneath the floor. That's still gives it a relatively low center of gravity. And they put a lot of the people who've worked on mustang over the years on this program and to try to infuse it with as much mustang dna performance dna and And they territory an attitude as they could and so they came up with something that has echoes of mustang but is also very practical car. For the first time ever you know traditionally mustangs the backseat and the mustang is not a place where you where you wanna be if you're an adult. It's fine for kids but know it's always been a two plus two this is a real five-seater got four doors. Got a hatchback big big cargo area in the back. And it's something that can be used as a family car but it also has a lot of that mustang. feel but it's also extremely modern. So you got things like the fifteen and a half inch touchscreen display in the center here with their sink for a system on it. They designed a completely new user interface for this car and this is going to be spreading out to two other vehicles as well. Unlike tesla Four as ford decided that you're not going to have everything in this touchscreen interface here They did retain a an instrument. Cluster display up in the front here directly in of the driver. Which i think is where it belongs. Yes that gives you information like your speed. Your driver systems systems like dab cruise control and lane keeping assist your range information. All that is right in front of you in the in the user interface here it's designed to be basically three areas three zones of this. You have the main zone up top here which is whatever the current application that you're using right now. It's navigation for dr route but You've also got these cards down here in this lower in this middle section here which represent the other applications that you've used most recently so if you go to things like you know right now there's an iphone connected to this which is being used as the phone is a key system and that brought up the the apple carplay interface and you can see that when it carplay interface came up navigation. Went down here into the most recently used slot in the in the cart section. So i can quickly get back to toggle back and forth. I can go to the ford pass out for charging. If i want to go to tap that and you see the Carplay and the navigation ford passer still down here instantly accessible so the system learns based on your behavioral based on what you're doing and so i'm going to go back here was also At the top here have Your your picture. You can have profiles from multiple drivers in here. Each driver can have Is tied to their own kifah program it to the fourth pass app on your phone use. Use the phone as your key with bluetooth belly when you tap on that it shows you all the apps that are available to the nice thing that they've done with his user interfaces. They've kept everything close to the surface close to the top so you're not drilling down through multiple layers of display multiple layers of interface. To get to the things that you want to use. It's all up close so right now. there's three three drive modes that are available right now in whisper mode which is the most economical mode the quietest mode the engage mode is the default mode. That's kind of a nice balance between the better better efficiency but also more performance and then unbridled is the the most performance oriented mode and what changes in between each of those modes. Is you get changes in the searing. Feel the amount of steering effort and you know for an suv. This thing has excellent steering response during feel to changing the drive modes also changes the accelerator pedal response so in whisper mode. It gives you a little bit slower response when you tip into the accelerator pedal A little smoother. Calmer more comfortable feel to it But then when you go through engage and finally to unbridled each time it gets a little more aggressive both with the the tip in response so that you know when you when you hit the accelerator pedal. It'll respond quicker jump off line faster in unbridled than it does in either engage or whisper but it also does the same in reverse for regenerative braking so in whisper mode you get more aggressive region or rather than Br bridled mode. You get more aggressive regenerative braking than you do in whisper mode or engage mode and you also have the option here separately for one pedal driving And you can set that and it'll stay remember what your settings were So it always goes back to whatever your last settings were so one pedal driving is great especially if your stop and go traffic in city traffic or On a on a on a highway even in stop and go traffic jam because it will bring the car to a complete stop when you lift off the accelerator. So i have not touched the brakes and the car coming to a complete stop here and then accelerating nice. Quick celebration puts you back seat. It's not as fast right now. As the tesla performance moats. But this also isn't the highest performance version. That's that's gonna be the. Gt the machi. Gt comes out in the summer. Twenty twenty one will be the version that goes up against the likes of tesla model y performance with it's insane mode the gt's going to accelerate zero to sixty in the in the mid three second range. Which will put it comparable to the shelby. Gt five hundred. Which has the giant supercharged v. Eight engine when i drove the machi earlier this afternoon on the auto cross course that one we drove was The rear wheel drive version. And what was interesting about it. Was you know they. They really tuned the suspension field. To give it more of that mustang. Feel so we get some off throttle oversteer. Can you can control the attitude of the car really well with the accelerator pedal the ride quality and this despite the performance capability is actually quite good. It's very comfortable but it's still got really good body control one other aspect does change when you change the drive. Moans is the sound there's the unbridled gives you a little bit more aggressive sound to engage. It's a little bit more toned down and whispered as you would expect. it's very quiet
Dr. Death
Dr. Fata: King Midas
"Four months later in september of two thousand eleven. Dr fatah's practice hired a new office manager. George karachay. i was born in detroit Living near Actually motown on west grand boulevard. George was in his early fifties tall with dark hair and glasses. He had worked in healthcare for more than thirty years and from an early age health. Care was very important to him. He used to play on this on the lawn of henry ford hospital when i was a kid and i often wondered what was inside. What did they do their before. He's interview hit. Never heard of doctor fata but of course he knew all about crittenden hospital. Where dr fata sent his patients. It had a reputation for serving posh clientele. George was honored to accept. Dr fatah's offer. The scale of the office was bigger than anything managed before he knew that a lot was expected of him but he was excited to be part of it. All the position was a rare. Find a six figure salary which is a lot for an office manager great healthcare coverage a twenty minute commute for his first day at his new job. He left his house early enough to leave. Plenty of time to get settled. My best sudan and is dr fodder said you know. We're very formal here. And so i. I remember driving to the clinic and i saw it for the first time on the outside nasa site to see it was grand on the outside with its covered. Porch and windows on the outside michigan. Hematology oncology didn't look much like a healthcare center it look like some sort of ski lodge some some resort. You see on side of a mountain where the rich and famous went to doing their winters. So i like this is incredible. The parking lot was already packed with cars when he made his way to the front of the building. I opened the door. And i was just in. Awe was on in so many different levels. The opulence of the center fifty foot ceilings grand piano artwork on the walls. Something that you would normally see at the detroit institute of arts. The soft lighting. The waiting rooms at were filled with fine furniture. It all looked more like the lobby of a swanky hotel. It was supposed to be the jewel of crittenden hospitals outpatient center and it really was. He looked around at the staff doctors nurses from other hospitals and universities all and crisply iron uniforms for marketable. George thought to see so many people from different disciplines all there to care for patients. Though george was new to the field of oncology. he wasn't a stranger to cancer. My own mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. And i was taking care of her. While i was working for dr fata so i know what it's like to be given that news in a patient's room and to go through the caretaking of a patient and i really believed in the field of oncology and hematology as he was looking around taking it all in jordan started to feel a bit nervous. I day jitters. But he realized that he too got to be part of this impressive operation working alongside folks that were saving lives. I closed my eyes. And i said to myself remember this day. Remember this day right away. He was put to work meeting. The staff getting to know the equipment around dr fatah's four clinics the infusion room where patients received chemotherapy was a sight to see. It was like a parking lot for chemo. Chairs kema chairs and rooms cumin chairs in the you had single a chairs you had once in a group with four and time. It was far as the eye could see. Saw the sea of chemo chairs. The waiting room stayed filled with at least thirty patients at a time. Busy was an understatement. Barber shop where one person is in a chair and then sweep off. The air and the next person would get in a chair. There was never a moment where that chair wasn't being used and running and humming and the equipment and spies all had to be there or else machine. I called it would start to break down.
How I Built This
Interview with Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan
"If, you're looking to start a business in the late nineteen nineties. You probably didn't have to spend a Lotta time convincing friends and family that it was a good time to go into tech. This was the height of the DOT com bubble and it seemed like the future was literally being written by companies like, Google and Yahoo Ebay and Amazon. So it can be kind of hard to imagine why to twentysomethings who lived in San Francisco in the nineteen nineties would survey this promising landscape and say. You know what the world really needs right now. Soap. So that will do a good job cleaning your kitchen counter or your toilet, but that won't destroy the planet in the process. And that is exactly what Adam lowry and Eric Ryan set out to sell in two thousand the very year that dot com bubble burst. And the company they founded method with its sleek bottles and products smelling like cucumber or bamboo it actually went on to compete with some of the big is soap companies in the world but before they went into business together, Ataman Eric were actually childhood friends. They met when they were kids maybe twelve or thirteen years old because they were both super into sailing and both of their families worked in the auto industry which Adam says was pretty much what everyone did where they grew up in Grosse Pointe Michigan. Almost everyone that I can remember with their families were involved in I. Think Eric Your family. Yes. My great-grandfather dropped out of pharmacy school and moved to Detroit to work for Henry for five dollars a day and ultimately Henry Ford. I've I've has some Ford stock that was when Henry was still running the company by my grandfather. My grandfather and grandfather together started a machine and stamping. If you ever see like this giant presses that come down, so they would make a lot of the parts that went on the automobiles. In so I kind of grew up in the shadows of my great grandfather and grandfather being these entrepreneurs who created something from nothing. At Eric both went off to college was in the early nineties. Adam went to the west coast. He studied chemical engineering at Stanford and Eric went to the East Coast and studied business at the University of Rhode Island. Both of them were actually recruited by the university's sailing teams. They were serious sailors and to be clear in college. Adam and Eric, didn't really keep in touch. They were the kind of. Friends who were happy to hang out and catch up just whenever they were back in Michigan. So after graduating atom stayed in the bay area to work for the. Carnegie. Institute of Science was doing research on climate change and Eric got a job in advertising and eventually he made his way out to San Francisco as well and shortly after that they both just happened to run into each other on a flight. I, think it was Thanksgiving if I'm not mistaken one year, maybe ninety, seven, ninety, eight, I walk on a plane I see Eric and I didn't know that he was living in San Francisco. You only move there the couple of weeks a couple of weeks earleir right and so there was an open seat I ended up sitting next to him on the plane. We for five hours got all caught up. It turned out we were living on the exact same block just out of. Pure coincidence and I was living in a flat with four other guys from Stanford and Eric was living by himself in a one bedroom and so when one of those guys rotated out, we invited Eric to move into the apartment and then we re just one you could actually live in San. Francisco for a reasonably low amount of rent I paid six hundred dollars a month in rent. Oh my God this is nineteen, Ninety, seven, Ninety, eight. Amazing. So you move into this group house. Doing doing your early twenties or whatever, and the house was just like a six guys in a presumably not super clean. It was exactly as clean as you would expect it to be got it. All right and I mean, did either of you at that time in your minds were either of thinking. Business or you just kind of grinding away doing your day to day jobs. For me personally I I, knew since the third grade I wanted to be an entrepreneur obviously annoying neighborhood kid who's constantly selling buttons or anything else I could. So I just I always knew I wanted to start a company and I loved I fell in love with advertising and branding but I knew it's pretty uncommon as an entrepreneur you're first company will be successful. So I kind of wanted to build a little bit of a safety net of a career, but I was constantly noodling on ideas for me personally just coming up with the right one that would eventually take
Climate Connections
Deliberate flooding could recharge an Idaho river
"The Henry's Fork River in southeastern Idaho provides water to nearby farms and at the major fly fishing destination. But as the climate warms, water, levels in the river are becoming less predictable. Sometimes, water is plentiful. But earlier snow melt and more erratic rainfall can lead to shortages later in the summer when the water's needed most. Christina Morris is with the nonprofit Henry Ford. Foundation, she says one way to help. Balance out these highs and lows is to capture water when it's abundant and use it to recharge natural groundwater reserves, we flood, agricultural land, or like a pond or a lake, and allow that surface water to infiltrate and percolate down into the aquifer to raise the water table. Models of the Henry's fork show that if the returned location is close enough to the stream, much of that water will seep back into the river later in the season, where it will be available to farms and fish, we found not when you recharge within a mile of the river than we get ninety percent of that water back into the river, so she says it's one promising way to store water and maintain stream flows when water is needed most
Paul W. Smith
Harry and Meghan Give Up Royal Titles and Forgo State Funding
"Prince hearing his wife Megan will stop using their primary royal titles giving up state funding and we're paying at least one three million dollars funding from taxpayers money over there used to refer brush their official residence at Windsor Castle under agreement announced by Buckingham Palace just the day before yesterday with an update let's check in with British historian and biographer on royal family that Henry Ford and everyone in between road companion books to the Netflix series the crown Robert Lacey this is been from front page stories and lead news on television all weekend long among other things what's your take on the unusual deal negotiated by aids to the the queen Queen Elizabeth two a prince Harry and other senior family members intended to what end the crisis that erupted ten eleven days ago well one it's been tougher than Harry expected I think and the some control to see about it over here because they have been told that they have to give up the royal titles of HRH I mean Harry and make and have two titles if you like at the moment the X. his or her Royal Highness that's not so much a title as a style the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the significance of the H. R. H. as we call it over here is the when Edward the eighth was sent into exile over abdication in nineteen thirty six he was allowed to keep these HRH interestingly his American wife the Duchess would would not allowed to be an HRH and then more recently when a prince Andrew was sent out to out to doctor is for he's a television interview and he's involved with Jeffrey obscene and also some controversial business dealings he was taken off the royal payroll but he remains to this day I HRH and there was some controversy in the papers this weekend when there was a picture of Megan and Henry who had the HRH taken away their route but the queen went to church with Andrew but he's still an HRH in his in so would be what we ourselves are not quite clear what's going on here he tried prince here to clear it up for the first time since the story began to unfold he spoke publicly I'm sure you got to see him I think was Saturday night he was speaking in front of one of his organizations a fundraiser something like that here's prince Harry explaining publicly for the first time why he and his wife Meghan made the decision to live part time among other things are there in England and over here in North America and Canada maybe the USA the areas the decision I made for my wife and all you have to
Focus On the Family Daily Broadcast
Adolph Coors: My Journey to Salvation
"Today's guest is Adolph Coors the fourth his column ad and he's going to share with us what it's it's like to grow up in the family that founded the coors brewing company right here in Golden. Colorado this is one of our top programs have twenty nineteen in so we wanted career at here at the start of twenty twenty for those of you who may have missed it or want to hear it again. It is a fascinating tale of wealth privilege and even tragedy and the lessons that ad learned along. The way are very thought provoking. I would agree Jim. And it's really interesting to note that he walked away from the family business altogether other eventually here now. Add Coors at a Washington county prayer breakfast in Pennsylvania on focus on the family. Thank you ladies gentlemen very very much for being here on this beautiful Saturday morning. One very foggy night. The captain of a large ship saw what appear to be another ships lights approaching in the distance. The two were on a course that would mean a certain head on collision so quickly. The captain signaled to approaching vessel. Change your course ten degrees west. The reply came blinking back for the thickening fog that evening. You Change Your course ten degrees east. The captain became insulted. Pulled rank as angrily sent a message back. I'm a sea captain with thirty thirty five years of experience. Change your course. Ten degrees west well out hesitation ladies and gentlemen to signal flashback wreck. I'm a seaman fourth class. You Change Course. Ten degrees east the captain now becoming enraged I just realized that the too rapidly approaching one another would certainly a crash in a few short minutes so ladies and gentlemen. He sent his his final warning that foggy night. This is now you listen here. I'm a fifty thousand ton freighter. Change your course ten degrees west now my friends. A simple message came blinking back that foggy. Good evening I'm a lighthouse. I'm a lighthouse else. Change Your course now ladies and gentlemen like that see captain in this true story we as human beings need to change course when we are confronted confronted with the Truth and twenty three years ago. Now I was one evening confronted with an incredible truth as I learned about the awesome love. The God of this universe has for you and me his creation. Now grant me the privilege. Editors indeed a privilege for me to be here this morning. Grant me the probe's of taking you on a spiritual journey a journey that forever changed the course of my life for those of you who may not know the Adolph Coors Company located in Golden Colorado has today grown into one of the largest argest breweries and the entire world. My great-grandfather Adolf Herman Joseph Coors the founder of our brewery. Doc lost both parents when he was fifteen. He was trained in his native Germany to be a brewer in an eighteen. Sixty eight with with just seven cents to his name with a dream in his heart one day Paul stowed away aboard board a steamer headed for America and he landed in Baltimore and to make a long story short several several years later in a small mining town of Golden Colorado along with a business partner they formed what is then what was was then known. As the shooter Coors Brewing Company. It began to sell their beer to the miners working in the mining camps. Above this small town the brewery began to grow rapidly seven years. After they began their fledgling little company on May first eighteen eighty. My great grandfather bought his business partner out and formed. What is now known? All over the world is the coors brewing company. But in nineteen fourteen prohibition hit the State of Colorado prohibition became a National Law and in nineteen twenty nine. The depression hit America and my great grandfather saw his fledgeling. Little Brewery began to slip through his fingers and shortly thereafter. He took his own life. Why do I mention that because my great grandfather made a serious mistake that many people are making today and that is identify who they are in what they do? We need not identify who we are and what we do do because what we do can change. What do we need to do is we need a dentist who we are and what we are in here? We're not what we do. And September of Nineteen forty-five I was born into this family. A family man. I actually just a family much like yours. A family with grant hopes and a family with aspiring dreams. I believe he's Jomon growing up in this family. It was not long before I realized at how I was going to be judged now I was gonna fit into. This is marvellous family and looking around my family Paul. I realized I was going to fit in. Based upon. Three criterion number one education is premier importance in our family. My family places a premium on getting the best education you can hopefully. Hopefully it will be a chemical engineering degree. They also place a high emphasis on athletic ability. I come I'm from a family of unbelievable athletes. My father played semi pro baseball. He was one of the pioneer developers of skiing being in the state of Colorado. He formed the Aspen Skiing Corporation back in the late forties early fifties and then physical appearance is extremely important in our family. These were the three criterion upon how I was going to be judged and it's tough growing up in a family when you are are judged upon performance. I love you if I love you. If you get good grades I love you. If you look good I love you. If you perform perform well on the athletic field every Saturday and Sunday you know of all the things that I learned as a young child growing up in this family the one thing I wish they would have taught me was this. What good is it going to be? If you gain the whole world but in a process of gaining the world you end up losing your soul or what can we give in exchange for our souls. I wish somebody had taught me as a young on boy. I wish they would have said this off. If you live for the next world you will gain this one in the deal but if you live strictly for this world you'll end up losing them. Both walking through a cemetery one day outside of the town of London England. I came across an interesting grave. Marker the grave marker. He said this she died for want of things. Turning to my right. Another grave. Marker presumably you that ever husband said this he died trying to give them to her she died for want of things and he died trying to give them. I'm to her I asked you. This is any rich person truly content. Henry Thoreau the great American poet. Once said a man is rich in proportion to the number of things he or she can afford to leave alone. How much money does it take for you and me to be happy? Just one more dollar just one more growing up in the family. I was in Namrd by successful businessmen and women and one day I came across a quote from John. D Rockefeller senior. That caught my attention. John D. Rockefeller senior just before he died said I have made billions but not one of these dollars brought me and he had snot one Henry Ford senior just before he died turned to a friend of is one day and he said I was happier when I was a mechanic and then Mr Vanderbilt cries out before his death he says the care of two two hundred million is enough to kill anyone. There's no pleasure in it now. Why were these obviously successful? Linda vigils able to admit there was something missing in their lives. Let me give you just a hand. My friends when we're born into this world we have a creator Creator in heaven who creates you and me. Batteries not
Past Gas
Henry Ford's Rubber Utopia
"It all started in in nineteen twenty five. Henry Ford was having lunch and his Dearborn Michigan Mansion with his good friend business partner entire magnate Harvey firestone Harvey. RV and Ford had been friends and partners since Ford started building cars decades earlier. So yeah just remember like he invented the model t which I like cheap car and basically he brought the car to the mass. Exactly Mr Firestone had begun ranting this time primarily focused on the impending rubber cartel that had been proposing England by one Winston Churchill. I am not a crooked. You know that payments de Yeah with a cigar and he's like on this day I I am not a crook and it will live in infamy. Yep that's him. The purpose of also the was Churchill. The king no the purpose of the rubber cartel was to limit the export of rubber in order to not overextend national resources. In case there was another World World War One thousand nine hundred eighty five probably a good idea but harvey firestone didn't like that idea. He believed that rubber prices were going to spike in the US as a result and therefore negatively affect firestone tires. Not some things never change Harvey firestone was not alone in this fear even even presidential candidate. FDR feared the effects of a rubber tariff. Remember was viewed. As the automotive industry's chokepoint seen as even more crucial than oil it's crazy. The the automotive industry relied on vulcanized rubber for literally everything from tires to hoses gaskets. A price increase of any kind could sink the young business so there there was a legitimate fear of turtles. Pain passing seems somewhat reasonable. Also it's it's it's kind of like okay here newsflash guys. If you're listening to this this might lose some you know in. I believe in climate change. And it's SORTA like yeah making some changes like you know not dumping tons of poisons into rivers and stuff might be more expensive for some people but in the at the end of the day. It's good not to have poisoned rivers and it's also probably good to have like rubber to defeat the Nazis. Yeah Germany was totally destroyed and they were afraid of something all of Europe. Yeah they're afraid of something like that happening again because those wounds had not been healed all and Churchill was just saying like hey fellers hello. Hello how does he talk. Talk like this is how are we talk again elegant. Listen listen fellows. That women's of all are still fresh insulting. I say that maybe we just save some of US supplies in case of fruit bikes out to again rubber. Blow Hurrah. Yes that's always saying always saying. Hey guys the whole world was just at war four. I think it might happen again. Maybe we should just like chill and be ready and these guys are like a money so harvey firestone was fed up with living in constant fear of their so he decided the best course of action would be to grow his own rubber smart. This wasn't the first time he had some some crazy idea. In fact Harvey tried to declare economic independence from the UK and fly rubber under the American flag. A few years earlier but that was truly the ramblings of a madman who doesn't seem to understand that you can't just not claim another country's resources by saying this cheaper so I'm just going to say it's it's American now although now that I think back on it that's kind of how we did a lot of stuff so yeah but harvey actually had a plan. He decided that he was going to start his own plantation in Liberia where the conditions were almost perfect for growing rubber trees by keeping the production in house he could avoid all the access fees associated with importation from other countries. Henry Ford had also tried growing his own rubber a year earlier. In one thousand nine hundred eighty four he had purchased this large quantities of land in the Florida everglades only to eventually do nothing with them. It was cheaper for four to import. The rubber. The idea of dramatic price is increase was still only speculation. But Still Harvey's plans had peaked and reports interests and after the lunch meeting was over. He requested that it's personal aide aide Leopold would find out where the best place to grow rubber Leopold come over here boy. Where's the best place to go? Rob A AH go find out how Liberia was the obvious choice. Harvey firestone discovered. It had the perfect climate when he put his plantation there but unfortunately Henry Ford word was very very very racist and he would not dare step foot in such an uncivilised and African society so they came to the conclusion. I mean that the rubber should be grown where it originated in the Amazon. So rubber comes from both vines and trees and you let it grow and then when you chop it you squeeze the vines and Latex Literal Latex comes out trees yeah so it's a liquid and then they they put out onto like big flat drying areas than when it dries. You can pull it up like a sheet of Latex and then you take a bunch of latex yeah stack stack into bales. And then that's what gets shipped out to like Volkan Ization plants and stuff like that. So these plantations are really only concerned with drawing the vines and extracting latex from okay okay and Liberia had the per client. But what about the Amazon Amazon also. Very clearly great. Climate only problem. It's a lot harder harder to get into the rainforest than it is in Africa. Got You throughout the nineteenth century. The Amazon River Basin supplied all of the world's rubber and made up forty percent of Brazil's exports sports at the height of the rubber boom in the second half of the nineteenth century but the Amazon's rubber room quickly turned to bus as plantations in Asia and England. Were able to go. Rubber and much denser populations and much more efficiently in Amazon many natural species that are not present in other countries limit the growth of trees so but organizing united plantations and other countries the efficiency was greatly increased. Henry had another incentive to go to South America besides his racism in End Theodore Roosevelt's book through the Brazilian wilderness. He accounts his experiences traveling through the Amazonian rainforests. One of his most significant observations is that many fast-flowing rivers could provide an almost perfect power source for any industry bold enough to be born there. He claimed that the right kind of senators such his enterprising businessmen of foresight coolness and suggest city who would be willing to put migrants to work for an advantage that would be mutually beneficial will give rise to a a great industrial civilization money. If anyone thought they could fill that description it was Henry Ford art now. Henry Ford did not really make cars. Henry Ford thought that he made men the maker. Men's like me. This builder of meant the cars they produced produced were simply a byproduct of his training. He was praised as a sociologist manufacturer. If anyone could reshape the native Brazilians into prosperous factory workers it was Henry Ford. They don't want to be or so he thought they don't want that.
Frank Beckmann
Teen receives double lung transplant for vaping-related injuries
"Doctors at Henry Ford hospital in Detroit forming what was thought to be the first double lung transplant in the U. S. on a teenager who had been smoking E. cigarettes doctor Lisa Allen's back part of the team says vaping is a health crisis among the young I believe we are just beginning to see the tip of the iceberg and making sure that our teens understand the danger of vaping is of paramount
AP News Radio
Vaping-related lung transplant performed at Detroit hospital
"On October fifteenth a team at the Henry Ford hospital in Detroit perform what they believe is the first double lung transplant for vaping injury victim Dr Lisa Alice park is a pulmonary specialist they described a sixteen year old with vaping induced lung injury there was no longer able to access any doctor who Sunday may a cardio thoracic surgeon said the patient's lungs were like nothing he'd seen in twenty years of performing long transplants inflammation and scarring in addition to multiple spots of dead tissue the sixteen year old patient is off the ventilator but weak after being integrated for almost a month doctors say they're bringing this case to public attention because they and the patient's family are worried about the preventable epidemic of it being long injury I'm Jennifer king
Rush Limbaugh
Detroit hospital staff performs double lung transplant on patient with vaping injuries
"Story a Detroit hospital things it's carried out the first of its kind procedure in the U. S. free vaping related injury Henry Ford health system says they performed a double lung transplant on a patient doctor's note that the patients use of the E. cigarettes left him with irreparable lung damage CDC says there are more than two thousand cases of vaping related injuries in the U. S. thirty nine deaths have been