Design

Henry Ford

Born on July 30, 1863 Dearborn Michigan, in his family farm which he left early at the age of 16 to follow his dream in Detroit. There he took apprenticeship as a machinist, were he learned how to fully operate and service steam engines, and study bookkeeping.

After marrying Clara Ala Bryant and returned at his family farm he was working as an engineer for Edison Illuminating Company. Were he was promoted to chief engineer and in the same time he produces his first model which was the Ford quadricycle, a hours less carriage. At the same year he presented another model for Thomas Edison, which encourages him to build a batter model.  

Try and error was one of the solutions for Henry to succeed in life and after failing with the above model, the model T arrived in 1903 introduced by Ford Motor Company. This was recorded as the car of the century and this because the popularity this car gained. He even managed to create production line for the assembling of the cars, Henry was reworded for his revaluation for expansive automobiles made by skilled man which Henry provided with steady wages. 

 

Half of the cars in America during that time were all model T, and after all this success through the whole world, World War 2 started. Ford had and was one of the main companies to proved truck, Jeeps and engineering pieces for the army, even when Ford was strongly agenised war. Ford died at the age of 83 on the 7 of April, 1947. One can obviously notice how Ford wasn’t only popular in America but even Europe, Ford was even sharing same of its components with Morris Motors a British car company, While VW was there competitor from Germany by the engineer Ferdinand Porsche.  

 

 

 

Ford and even VW are top leading brands in the car industry now days, producing passenger careers. Morris didn’t mange’s to hold their name and changed for several times and ended as MG Rover which had been both by BMW, another top motor brand by the Germans.  There are a lot of other motor companies which produce high quality cars and most of them even share their ideas and even their components like Ford did with Morris.

From the pictures below one can notice how huge step the motor industry did, and how most of modern cars are more in circular shape, and even designed in a more minimalistic way from the cars of the past. From the same pictures one can even see how some of the older car models had been redesigned and modernist for the market, and even generations of the same model evolving throughout the years.  Most motor companies now a day’s compete with each other not only for best looks, but even for different options the car can offer, safety futures and pricing.

 

 From the research I made during this post I even noticed how car designer even from the past pay attention of which materials use and there texture of it, in their models, which in my opinion is very important as they have to attract costumers ‘l ewwel ma tikol l ghajn’,  I believe that most of modern car designer like the Roberto Giolito works more than the past car designer to  create car designs which never gets old and boring like the fiat 500.

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Industrial Revolution

This revolution all started in  18^th century, and changed the way people think and work, which most of them till that time were working in farming.  Roads, train rails and canals were in build in this period much more than other times, and Britain was the starting point of all these changes and the biggest empire of that time, much more known as the commonwealth countries now a days.

 Machinery, factories and mass production were the transformations which changed how people lived till that time. Coal played a very important part in the industrial revolution as transportation, communication and banking were improved.

All of this not only changed  how  people lived during that time but one can say that all of what we have now a day’s started  and it have been improved from this revolution. Before all this changes, people used to produce their own furniture, cloths and farming their food, because their income was limited.  Industrial revolution brought growing of manufacture that even improved much better standard of living for many families as many factories were employing people to work. 

One will immediately ask why all of this happened and started from Britain.  As from the research I am doing about all of this there was two important things which I believe made Britain the main source of all this revolution.

 

• The coal which Britain had as a natural source from the North Sea’s of the country and which was cheap for the factories to create mass production instead of wood.           

• The other aspect which was important in this revolution was how scientists had the liberty to work, experiment and evolve their ideas, not like most other countries around Europe which were controlled by church or state. 

 

The industrial revolution proved these two facts by how scientists were evolving their ideas like Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729) who was the inventor of the steam engines, while Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727) explained the force of gravity for the first time and others. All of this creates new challenges for the church because of how these scientists were scientifically proven by nature.  

    

The first steamed manufacture took place in Birmingham and this was the Soho factory of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809).  Boulton and his work in the Soho factory was famous because of metal work especially the famous Birmingham toys, which were metal wear used as personal adornment.

The air freshener fish, which will be filled with orange oil sponge for a nice smell, used from those people like Boulton to smell it when someone that besides them does not smell nice.  

 

All of this revolution going in Britain was an inspiration for the whole world, and even France which was one of Britain rivals, which filed for many times to build and engineer works because  of  how hard the monarchy was being too allowed this type of inventions. By the end of the 18^th century Britain managed to even export between its empire, and here were stared the revolution of shopping, were people from any social classes can buy thing instated made of by the local artiest, and Oxford street was one of the main streets in London for shopping, During this time there was even a revolution for what we call marketing.

There are more interesting fact which one can discus about the industrial revolution, and in my opinion this revolution is still evolving maybe not in the same way happened in the past. In an very simple example is how huge steps the technology did in these last few years, were from a just mobile phone used for a call and sms evolved in phones which can be used as a camera and very recently connected to internet. 

      

 There are a lot of other things which have been evolved from our past and I am sure most of them continue to grow as our future have to be different from our past and the making of present.  Other interesting fact I noticed during doing this research is how as human beings only looked to our past to find from what we evolve to continue evolving, which in my opinion this evolving technique is a life styles for most of us.

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