NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Interchangeable Parts, Vertical Integration, Scientific Management
8 Dec 2012
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The automobile and the rise of mass production in the united states. Specializing machinery - creating machines in other machines. Standardized parts look all the same and are interchangeable. Ex: produce 2 cars before the american system of manufacturing they make look the same but if you opened up the cars, they are quite different. Eli whitney is a story about both fact and fiction. He was the first person to promote this idea of standardizing interchangeable parts. 18th century, he was the first to approach the us government. Be able to provide the us with these muskets (a type of gun). When they opened up whitney"s muskets, they found out he didn"t create them but more of an illusion that he did. Increasing role in creating new technologies and techniques of production. Often wanted greater control/power even over their enemies. Having a lot of money in these institutions can fail time and time again during the research process.
