per class. The Model T's advertising said that one could get a Ford in any color he wanted, as long as it was black (Car and Driver). The invention of the car brought about a new world of travel for the American public. Along with Henry Ford introducing his new automobile for the middle class man, he installed his assembly line process, which aided in the production of cars and sped up the productivity and efficiency of work. The automobile was released into the public and, like most other inventions, was released to the public as a purely utilitarian piece. It was meant for one purpose and one alone, as a transportation device as opposed to other inventions that have come to do much more than initially intended, such as computers.
The Ford Motor Company has spawned the epithet 'fordism'. Here we see a significant divide between the famous and long-lived 'Model T' Ford as a unit of production and as a consumer owned vehicle. The Ford production line developed in Detroit before the First World War became the mode
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