July 9, Henry Ford, manufacturing

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On July 9, we visited the Henry Ford museum.

It is very large, and has a wide and varied collection. On the 9th, we began in a section that describes early industrial manufacturing. Apparently when mass production began, the item being produced would sit in one place, and a few people would work on it. Henry Ford's innovation was to have the object move, while people specializing in different tasks worked on it at different times.





They have an interesting display of a model T, with all the parts disassembled, but near where they would go in the final product. (This is two pics, one on top of the other, which is why there are disconnects here and there....)



Right by the area above, they actually build a model T, using tourist labor. (We were assured that, back in the day, child labor wasn't illegal, so it was ok for kids to be in there tightening bolts, etc. :-) ) Unfortunately my attempts at pics of the assembly are more tourists than car. I should have focused in tight on the bolt being tightened, or something similar.....



The collection includes all sorts of manufactured items. We know these were dangerous, but gotta love the shapes, shadows, golden shine......





Hmmm. Wondering about the definition of "safe".......





More shapes and shadows and golden shine.





A bit of a look into a manufacturing process.....







Wondering what their families' lives were like, that making horsehair cloth all day was an improvement.....





A cobbler's shop was in the same area. Seems less like "mass production".... I liked the shapes of these lasts.

You can't tell the scale from this pic, but these were tiny. Shoes for little kids....



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