Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace 1910-1927: Ford Workers in the Model T Era
Stylepark (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Detroit, the very name stands for cutting-edge industrial architecture. America's very first car factory was built her, a concrete frame structure, and it was here that Albert Kahn, the "builder of Detroit", created the Highland Park factory for the Ford "Model T", which first rolled off the production line in 1908. In a city whose future seems to be behind it, what is happening...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
No further proof should be required than Time Magazine's attack upon - of all things - Ford's Model T: Let's stipulate that the Model T did everything that the history books say: It put America on wheels, supercharged the nation's economy and transformed the landscape in ways unimagined when the first Tin Lizzy rolled out of the factory. Well, that's just the problem, isn't it'... conferred to Americans...
imagine lifestyles | 12/01/2009
Submitted by imaginelifestyles on November 17, 2009 - 8:40am Some tales are too torrid to go untold, and we have a juicy treat for our fabulous fanbase today. It would seem there is a serial killer of exotic cars right here in Florida. A 73 year-old Floridian is responsible for the demise of not one, but ten exotic cars within the past three years. Oh the madness. Did we mention this man is partial
uShip Blog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
One of uShip’s most popular categories is vehicles . At any given time, thousands of cars are listed on the marketplace – and with two new partnerships, that’s about to increase. AutoTrader Classics and LeaseTrader have now incorporated uShip’s Shipping Price Estimator and vehicle transport information into their sites, making it easier than ever for their users to save on...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Do you know many companies like the nuclear industry who have only one product in their catalogue? There was Ford and the Model T, but that was 100 years ago, and they at least knew how to build and sell...
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Racing titles are big on gaming consoles. It has always been that way, pretty much. And now that the iPhone and iPod Touch have pushed their way into the game space, racers have made their way to this portable platform as well. Kind of. What do you really get in an iPhone racing game, though? For the longest time we saw small and (sometimes) fun games that were perfect for some casual action while...
Cuisine Kathleen (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Today on our way over to Riverhead, I stopped to take a pic of this Long Island landmark. For years, kids have lined up in front of the duck to have their pic taken. This is from Wikipedia… The Big Duck is a building in the shape of a duck located in Flanders, New York , on Long Island . It was originally built in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Maurer in nearby Riverhead , and used as a shop to...
Factory Workshop Service Repair Manuals (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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Ford Factory Workshop Service Repair Manuals (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Here's a daunting thought in this age of rapid technological advancement. Fuel economy in the U.S. vehicle fleet has changed little since the days of the Ford Model T. In a recent study, Michael Sivak and Omer Tsimhoni at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute calculated the distance driven and fuel consumed for the U.S. fleet of vehicles – including cars, light trucks,...
Stix Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
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Ecofriend (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Eco Factor: Prototype electric vehicle powered by solar energy. A student team at the Waterloo Collegiate Institute has designed a Model-T replica that doesn’t drink gas but harnesses the abundant energy of the sun for power. The truck was built.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The x-ray has been voted the most important modern discovery by participants in a poll to mark the Science Museum's centenary year. Members of the public were asked to vote on 10 of the greatest achievements in science, engineering and technology selected by its curators. Nearly 50,000 votes were cast by visitors to the museum in London and on its website. Penicillin was voted second; followed by...
Political Inaction (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Ford Model-T got 21 MPG in the early 1900s. The MPG of our current fleet? 21 MPG. Way to go progress!
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Say what you want about the Prius (and no doubt you will) but it is a car that ushered in a new era of automotive history. It made saving fuel and being “green” trendy. When automotive history is written, the Toyota Prius will be along side cars like the Ford Model-T, The Citroen DS, the [...]
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imagine lifestyles | 12/01/2009
Submitted by imaginelifestyles on November 17, 2009 - 8:40am Some tales are too torrid to go untold, and we have a juicy treat for our fabulous fanbase today. It would seem there is a serial killer of exotic cars right here in Florida. A 73 year-old Floridian is responsible for the demise of not one, but ten exotic cars within the past three years. Oh the madness. Did we mention this man is partial...
Sanjana Sharma | 08/31/2009
Since the advent of Henry Ford's Model T and the creation of complex assembly lines, organizational designs have focused on breaking apart complex processes into individual tasks the result of which manifests itself as pipe-based organizational charts where the right hand has little knowledge of what the left hand is doing. As technically focused IT stores are making transition into service organizations,...
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trymi | 10/23/2008
A hundred years after the Ford Model T introduced the car to the world, Ford Motor Company has released the winners of a four-month long contest that involved five universities worldwide to design an innovative and ground-breaking car concept for the second millennium. The “ika” (Institute of Automotive Engineering Aachen) from Aachen University in Germany, the only European university to have participated
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