How The Ford Model T Took Over The World
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My father was 4 when the last model T came off the production line, but there were many still on the road when he was a teen. He said the thing about them that people came to appreciate was that a reasonably handy person could do their own repairs, often with improvised materials. This became obviously important during the Depression.
Wow your father was, well old
@@martinrafaj6096 100 years old if he were alive today!
Absolutely can't stand the narrator's accent.
@@gorginhanson Irish moment
Let's be real a ford model t was probably less complicated than most riding lawnmowers now
I love these historical/engineering videos! Please do more!
Watch donut media:)
8:49 That middle finger tho.
How did you even...
Monster...
Funny
That guy must've been having a shit day hahaha
That was Michael Duglas.
James St. Clair sure sure lol
Waw.. 2.1 million a year is 4 cars a minute.. and in that time and age.. Thats just nutz!!!
Well it is but you must remember he had factories all over the world
He also didn't have his factories working 24/7, so each factory was only productive during working hours.
I know I know.. Lets say there were 30 plants working 12 hrs a day, and making everything on site. They'll still each make 4 cars an hr.. still very remarkable.
And Tesla struggles to make even 100k a year.
Deez Nuts
11:49 The big 3 are Ford, GM and Chrysler. Cadillac is part of GM itself from 1909 .
YES!! thank god somebody noticed this!!
You beat me to it lol
Chill he's not american
@@OmarBKar-sw1ij doesnt have to be
Another fun fact is that Henry Ford owned a car making company before the one he's famous for today. He went bankrupt, and sold that company, that company today is Cadillac.
Factorio, 10/10 game. Great work of art.
Not that it was an accurate description of game mechanics...
@@Sander_Datema Also, he should press alt
THE FACTORY MUST GROW!!!!
anyone wanna play factorio with me?
Crackorio* but for real tho. Its number 2 for top-rated game on steam of all time
10:38 "Spend a few hours playing Factorio, and you will really gain an appreciation for the complexity of this profession."
One does not simply "spend a few hours playing Factorio".
well, not "a few" anyway
Factorio will drain your life so a few hours is an understatement
True about Ford Model T: th-cam.com/video/Cl7UcB6vwtQ/w-d-xo.html
You`ve just confirmed Ford`s main principle with all your videos:
Make a great job and you will need no promo.
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I think you meant Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler when you referred to the Big Three automakers of Detroit.
*Talks about industrial engineering*
Hmm... Sounds like factorio.
*talks about factorio*
My exact thought process.
I don’t know what factorio is but I know what industrial engineering is.
@@stephenpowstinger733 If you're into efficiency then factorio is like a drug.
I was playing factorio when he spoke about it. magic.
*“JUST FEED THE MACHINE”*
-Henry Ford
I've seen many videos on Ford's development of the assembly process through the years. THIS is simply the best explained one yet.
this video contains mistakes
There's Better Ones Made About The Model T. Especially The One About It's Original Design Made At The Piquette Ford Factory Museum, With Noted Auto Historian BOB CASEY, By Mac's Motor City Garage. Check It Out...
Those ‘crafters’ that you mentioned were parts of what was called a Coachbuilder. Basically you would buy the chassis, wheels, steering wheel and the seats and all the mechanical stuff from the car manufacturer, and then you would get the bodywork done at a coachbuilder of your choice.
Short story about how deep a planner Henry Ford was: When Ford contracted out for his transmissions to be built by a sub contractor, he also specified what size box it was delivered in. The size and shape of the boards that made up the box too. When the transmission was delivered, it went right onto the conveyor line to be used. The box was knocked apart and the boards were sent down the line and became the floor boards for the model T being built. Already cut, shaped and shellacked, ready to drop into the car.
*One thing not mentioned was that from the start of the model T series, every year, the price of the vehicle went down. He applied the improvements to the making of the cars to lower the prices. His goal was to put a model T into every garage. (Instead of maximum profits by raising prices AND making them cheaper, like is done today.)
“Say I needed a shaft to fit a particular hole.”
People's reproductive organs have quite some tolerance for... different sizes. Nature even allows an entire baby to go through it lol.
My grandpa had one of those and now my dad has it and its litttt
7:47 that's not a milling machine, that is a surface grinder
Milling is any machine where the workpiece remains still as the machines tools move. A drill press is also a milling machine.
A lathe is different, the workpiece moves while the machines tools remain still.
That is a milling machine.
@@fordgtguy Keep your day job, which I'm very sure doesn't involve machine tools.
@@6h471 I literally gave the text book definitions, don't be such an arrogant asshole.
Pete 913 wow
A surface grinder is a milling machine lol
Would you be interested in doing a video on LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) reactors? I'm curious what your take on that sort of nuclear energy is, because I'm all for it!
William Brighton - I too would like to see his take on this. Having worked in the hydrocarbon energy sector for most of my career - as well as earning a degree in economics - I don't see any technology that can even scratch the surface of our addiction to oil - 90% of our energy needs are still met by "fossil fuels".
There doesn't seem to be another alternative to LFTR.
My brother in law has a original model A passed down within the family. It's an amazing car to see and interesting to see all the mechanical solutions from that time.
Let us hope that in 80 years, Real Engineering makes a similar video about Tesla Model S !
I'll be 108 and living on an artificial heart, but I'll try.
Real Engineering you never know, with future technology some people alive today will probably reach 150 years +
@@lordgemini2376 or shorter as the impact of nuclear war
@@RealEngineering
I'll be 107. If you don't make it to that age then I'll make it :P
Jake Watson , who cares? Stupid questionJake!
12:46 That sponsor transition was really smooth!
I want to thank you for this video as I used it as a reference in my Business Management class! Specifically when it comes too Task Cycles. Keep up the great work!
Factorio is probably the best game I've ever played, and 100% showcases the challenges faced by industrial engineers in the real world. Awesome video!
Best documentary on the model T I've ever seen. One correction: The Big Three are not Ford, General Motors, and Cadillac. Cadillac is a GM brand. The third was Chrysler.
I used to design production lines for Toyota making electrical switches, our average cycle time was 21 seconds producing about 1200-1300 switches per shift. A lot of the fundamentals came from ford and were improved upon by Toyota with the aid of automation. Each machine on the line was unique, using some common parts and common designs but could only accommodate 1 or 2 variations of part. They would be scrapped and recycled after 10 years.
I would actually like to hear more about your time working on a factory line.
The first mass manufacturing was in Portsmouth England. The Royal Navy's massive fleet of wooden sailing ships needed _millions_ of rope pulley blocks. A mass manufacturing factory was set up making them. They also sold them to merchant ship makers.
Updooting for completely unexpected Factorio reference.
god damn T's and their popularity, T series, T-posing and ford model T
Do not forget the every popular T-shirts. You can hardly go anywhere without seeing them these days.
Tobias11ize T ea
T esla
There were a lot more 'T' drinkers in those days, hence the popularity of T ;) .
Tesla
Nice, good refresh timing.
I literally just came off of 2 weeks of reading and studying Brave New World and Mr. Fordship for my English Culminating Project. This would've been such a good secondary source...
Henry Ford was ahead of his time. Everyone should read his book entitled "The International Jew: the World's Foremost Problem"
It's actually kinda annoying when that happens. To be honest though, this channel is extremely helpful for sources.
@k1w1, Ford did not introduce the idea of mass production, but Bill Knudson did, and Ford adopted his theory
The content of your videos never ceases to amaze me. Great job!
i find it interesting how a lot of the stuff he did, i did back when i played eve online. Where i created equations that allowed me to find cycle time and find out where waste time was occurring. The result was i could now exactly how well mining operations i ran where going without needing to ask anyone. Yet i never knew this stuff, i simply thought to myself "how do I make this more efficient".
Should be pointed out Ford only paid his workers well to keep the unions out. He eventually hired low level mobster thugs to run "security" at his factories to keep unions out. Also ran company housing with ridiculous specific requirements about how people should live every aspect of their lives, which if violated would get them fired and thrown out on the spot. They guy was frankly a control freak who got crazier and crazier as he aged. He literally tore down a factory expansion his son had built while he was away and left a gaping hole in the ground instead, solely because someone other than him had made a decision.
Steve Rogers he was also an anti semite
*anti-zionist
That's terrible, at least today no-one can be successful in business or politics unless they're pro-zionist.
You are in error about why Ford paid the highest wages in the auto industry at the time. When Ford doubled his daily wage Unions were not a factor in the auto industry. The reason he paid more than anyone else was that working on a Ford production line doing the same small task over and over all day long, day in and day out was so mind numbing that people quit after a few months and Ford was constantly hiring and training new people, and that costs money. A person would just get really good at doing his/her simple task, and they would quit. To keep a stable work force, Ford doubled their wages, (it's hard to quit a high paying job, even if it is boring as hell). It's not to say Old Man Ford liked unions, (he didn't), but they were not the reason he raised wages. And yes, he was Anti Semitic, but so is the Modern Democrat Party, but nobody seems to care about that.
@@oldgysgt You are absolutely correct about that. But it isn't the full story. He paid these people more because in the end, people that didn't make mistakes as a result of boredom reduced overall costs. But he also realized that if he paid his workers enough to be able to purchase a car, they would purchase one of his cars, so he would sell more cars.
Ford was not the first to utilize mass production, but he was one of the first to apply it to a civilian product. Years before, Eli Whitney was using standardized parts and assembly lines to manufacture weapons for the U.S. Army.
Skill share transition are ALWAYS on point!!!
Congratulations on getting out of that sanity-destroying 12hr shift repetitive factory job.
Your vids are great.
"I needed a shaft to fill a particular hole"
*Glenn Quagmire has entered the chat*
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*G I G G I T Y*
Wow, a Real Engineering and Business Casual both uploading a video on Henry Ford at the exact same time! Both great videos.
Great essay! What's weird and fascinating at the same time is one of the lesson I took away from it. You don't have to invent something out of nothing, be the first to invent something, but see how can you make something better. DO that last part exceedingly well and the world is yours.
"That just sounds like slavery,with extra steps" -Morty
except one is not owned by another man, and can afford to buy such a car at some point thanks to the proceeds of this voluntary arrangement.
@@Drumsgoon "Like I said 'slavery with extras steps' " - Morty
@@danteregianifreitas6461 that's not a Morty quote.
@@soupdujour4086 lol true but it's kinda what he says to Rick in the miniverse inside the microverse and you get the point
Nope, unless you consider yourself a slave of nature, because it 'forces' you to be productive in order to stay alive, that is, if you want to.
Just out of curiosity (since you mentioned it a few times) what specifically was your job and where did you work at? Also why did you leave that job? I'm invested into going into a line of work like this and I was curious to get your opinion on it.
So good!! I could spend days watching videos like this.
Very informative video. I'm always impatient for the next one.
I got notifications for this video and businesses casuals' at the same time
both about Ford, lol.
Studebaker: "Am I a joke to you?"
Too soon ;-;
@@drgabe2908 Why did Studebaker have to go so early!? Their cars were so cool!
Dr Gabe I’m over here crying about my kaiser
Business Casual + Real Engineering video at the same time and similar topics.....
Just loved it!!🔥🔥🔥
Now this is the kinda video I come here for! Thank you SO MUCH for doing something unrelated to the current news!!!!
I literally played hookie for a week from my real engineering job to play Factorio. That game is crack for engineers!
GE does something similar to Boeing with their train engines. They move them around the factory on a hovercraft.
I actually really enjoy these simpler videos as with lots of numbers my focus drops
Love your work. You are inspiring a generation. Thank you.
The ford model t series AHHHH
"He created modern society. That is a massive claim but bear with me."
*Understands statement before explanation*
9:30 sounds like a job i had one time. we send our guy to get any crap we needed. was pretty neat.
I took a tour in the ford piquette avenue plant in Detroit and it gave a lot of information similar to your video. Well done.
Model T was awesome.. but *I wish I had a 67 Mustang* :'(
no, 1970 boss 302 or nothing
Nah 1928 Ford Model A daily driver or get out
well you can buy a 66' stang convertible email me
i wish i had a car...
@@ProbablyAEuropean few months of work and you can buy a v8 holden commodore, you'll get all the women
The model T was revolutionary bringing the car to the masses
revolutionary is so over used that i has lost it's meaning...
So this car wasn’t revolutionary?
Bullshit.
That was a really helpful thing for me to understand: thanks :)
Excellent content, delivery, and accent
Although Ford gets the credit for the assembly line, Samual Colt was making revolvers using the same technology nearly 50 years before Ford.
Mass production was introduced in 1805 making blocks for Royal Navy ship's rigging.
It's more about the effeciency and mass production using the concept than anything else.
God made man, Samuel Colt made them equal.
A sad truth about American machines today is that not many American lathes or mills can cut hardened steel reliably. If you think American CNC machines Haas comes to mind and Haas cannot keep up with Japanese or even Korean Machines. We switched to Mori Seiki and Okuma CNC machines and now we can rip through hardened metals while holding critical tolerances.
Nice transition to the ad, as always very good video!
Excellent video with great footage. Well done.
Business Casual uploaded abt Henry Ford in about the same time !!!!!!!!
Yea
I appreciate everything Ford accomplished in manufacturing. Henry was however, a deeply disturbed man.
Kinsey Madeline he was a fine man
@@joedirt6212 He was a racist and treated his employees like slaves. Without intervention he wouldn't have stopped.
Dude I absolutely love your channel!!!
Your videos are always fun to watch! :D
Interchangeable parts were first used in firearms manufacturing by
Honoré Blanc.
The first use of a assembly line for car was by Ransom Olds.
What Ford did was combine several ideas that were gaining traction including the 40 hour work week.
A lot of people attribute Ford was being nice by adopting the 40 hour week but instead it was a wise business decision because productivity falls off and mistakes go up after when someone is on the job for much more than 8 hours and employees might buy some of the very products they made if they have some free time.
Oh its called the model t because it's the 20th iteration and the letter T is the 20th letter of the alphabet. Cool
Business casual and real engineering Ford videos, same time. I love it.
Don't forget the most important machine that made all this possible: The Clock.
Pls do a video on folding phones
they are called flip phones you uncultured swine
*_Elon Musk is gonna sue_*
_Bob McCoy chill this is before
Nah, he should sue ford ford made this whole planet so dirty and put us in grave danger because other manufacturers copied the sales technique
Nuclear cars when?
@@theofficiallobst6592 that is not renewable and nuclear is very limited, if nuclear was used for everthing it would only last ten years
@@bophuong8449 Nuclear Fission or Nuclear Fusion?
5:02 "Say I needed a shaft to fit a particular hole" pure gold.
This is the most fascinating thing ever, I’m a tank lover and even older cars make me really interested
HOW T SERIES TAKE OVER TH-cam?!?!?!?!?!!?!
How can you not consider how working conditions were a disaster ?
How is it genius to put a huge pressure on employees ? No rise in salary can compensate the destruction of their physical health and mental abilities
Enden31 back then working conditions didn’t matter only G.westinghouse did that
I had both yours and business casual video in my feed and i was confused which to watch first so i picked yours because it was 10 seconds less
Great Content as usual! keep it up!
The big 3 are Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Not Cadillac. Cadillac is part of GM
all these companies are bankrupt, Ford, GM and Chrysler combined still not even half of German Volkswagen which is the current number 1 world's biggest car company second is Toyota and 3 is Mercedes Benz the real big 3 of the world
@@cokpeotfg4fcdck601 bankrupt?! So these companies are technically dead as they owe so much to the bank that all of the company's assets combined can't cover the costs of what they owe?
Be careful with words, bankruptcy indicates a business's demise. If the asset value of ford, GM, Chrysler combined is still lesser than Volkswagen's then they aren't necessarily bankrupt.
@@prateekkarn9277 GM went bankrupt in 2009 but survived and saved by who? now GM is on the blink of bankruptcy again, Chrysler is not American company anymore Chrysler went bankrupt but saved and is now owned by European FCA NV company which is owned by European billionaires family of Exor and Bernard Arnault, Ford is today not doing good, No American cars companies are on the list of world's largest automakers, Because no one buys American cars
@@cokpeotfg4fcdck601 huh so only GM isn't bankrupt yet, but the other two are and have been bought. Ok
@@prateekkarn9277 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors#Chapter_11_bankruptcy Welcome.
-Can I just say that I'm glad you didn't fall into that "great man" myth so much, nothing would be possible were it not for the work and developments of people everywhere
-The replacement of stable careers built on experience as craftsmen with the disposable labour that made the conditions of the workers worse was actually what the Luddites opposed, not the development itself but the way it was used against them. (donoteat, who makes videos about urban planning and politics, talks about it here th-cam.com/video/3HA3S_O_yxs/w-d-xo.html )
-Many have criticized the assembly line. Chomsky points out that a common thing among workers is that they can't take pride in their work because it goes so fast they cannot do their work properly. (he talks about how work is and should be organized here th-cam.com/video/bcBLCBxq1k8/w-d-xo.html )(I would recommend watching the whole video btw)
I think it's important to be critical about how work is organized and who benefits from it.
Well sorry to break your bubble but Ford did NOT create the mass production technique, but rather Bill Knudson
Amazing how technology has advanced since Cugnot. The vids from that time were so low res and only black and white. Reminds me of when I was young.
This... Is your best video IMO. Kudos
Present: “How the Ford Model T took over the world”
Future: “How Tesla Took over space”
You know Tesla just fired a large batch of their staff because they are going bankrupt right, there is no future sadly for them
Ignorant idiot.
(Forgets that Caddy isn’t an old man car anymore, and that Tesla’s electronics are expensive to produce)
"How The Ford Model T Took Over The World"
How many Ford Model T sold in Europe ?
78Dipar considering Europe was only able to do it, thanks to Ford allowing them to learn from him, I’d say the model t took over the world lol
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LEARNED SO MUCH.
Badass man I really do learn a lot from all your videos
Just nitpicking here, but quantum leap, contrary to popular belief, means a teeny tiny leap. Quantum mechanics is the science of the subatomic particles. Probably is better to say an astronomical leap.
Ford was a genius
Eat me daddy
Your nickname lol
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I eat penis because I’m vegan now
Henry Ford was ahead of his time. Everyone should read his book entitled "The International Jew: the World's Foremost Problem"
Brilliant video Brian
Damn, that was one smooth segue.
*FORD ENGINEERING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD*
Henry Ford was ahead of his time. Everyone should read his book entitled "The International Jew: the World's Foremost Problem"
Not anymore. Ever since the Panther platforms were discontinued they've been shit, with exception of their trucks.
It is the best, If you like to die on a road
Is that a *JOJO REFERENCE* ?
You ignorant murican idiot :D :D :D
Screw Ford!
Henry Ford was ahead of his time. Everyone should read his book entitled "The International Jew: the World's Foremost Problem"
The Indycar SportsCar Podcast Truth! The man was a raging anti-Semite and hated labor unions, after all. He was a manufacturing genius, but an abhorrent person.
@@JarrodBaniqued To be fair, he was the reason why we have paid vacations and shit like that. A lot of unions in the US today are giant circlejerks, especially university unions, holy shit they're bad.
GunFuMaster Actually, guaranteed paid vacations were present before Ford made it into business; Australian businessman Alfred Edments gave it out in the 1880s: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/edments-alfred-6089
Also, unions throughout history have done just as much good (especially regarding investing in workers’ productivity) as bad. With US universities, it’s more nuanced, but I wouldn’t froth at the mouth at university unions, especially given the high cost of living around college towns, their working conditions, and state governments having underinvested in public colleges consistently over the past thirty years.
Jarrod Baniqued so what he still made a good product
Love all your videos, thank you. Also the Irish accent is dreamy ❤
great video as always, tks!
Too bad he grew to be an old bitter anti-semite . I drive a Ford and admire the early history of Ford but there's a dark shadow on the last half of Ford's life.
Who cares if he was an anti Semite so what he made a good product
Perhaps his experiences gave him a unique insight into the world of international finance.
Can you talk about what makes Toyota and Japanese lean manufacturing more effective?
OMG, factorio is AMAZING for teaching you all the aspects of factory management. You need to manage power generation and usage, resource input and usage, manufacturing times, and, later down the line, you get to introduce automated trains and even amazon style drones into the mix, each complete with their own resource input and usage requirement.
Oh, and if you are not playing in peaceful mode, you also need to fend off attacks from the local wildlife as your pollution cloud grows.
Great video man! Pls do one on the Toyota's method