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How the Moving Assembly Line Brought the Car to the Masses?
The moving assembly line that Henry Ford put into operation at his Highland Park factory in 1913 reduced the assembly time of a Model T from 12 hours to 93 minutes; this leap in speed lowered the car's price so much that the automobile became, for th…
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Why Did Volvo Open Its Three-Point Belt Patent to Everyone?
In 1959, Volvo opened the patent for the three-point seatbelt designed by Nils Bohlin to the whole world without demanding any fee; the company gave up pocketing the royalties because it believed this invention could save millions of people from deat…
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How Did the Deformation Zone Form and How Many Lives Did It Save?
The crumple zone is a body architecture in which the front and rear of the car deliberately deform to absorb collision energy, while the middle section where passengers sit is intentionally designed to be extremely rigid. This idea January 23, 1951 w…
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From Benz to the Ford T: The Birth Years of the Automobile and Its Pioneers
The first automobile, by the most widely accepted definition, was invented by Karl Benz: Benz Patent-Motorwagen' He built it in 1885 and received its patent on January 29, 1886. But the story of the automobile's birth cannot be told with a single nam…
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How Did the World Wars Change the Automobile?
The world wars turned the automobile industry upside down twice: World War World War I carried Ford's mass-production methods into the war industry, and in the interwar period it gave birth to the idea of the people's car in Europe; World War II II c…
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A Look at Automotive Design Eras
The eras of automobile design are the names of the periods that defined every car's appearance: the first automobiles born with a horse-drawn carriage heritage, the streamlined lines of the 1930s, the tailfins of the 1950s, the angular "folded paper"…
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