NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lincoln Motor Company, Typewriter, Henry M. Leland
27 Jan 2018
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In the us, many individuals were able to buy standard and interchangeable parts: neighbours were miles and miles away, population growth, excess land and food, disposable income, raw materials, rural communication. Interchangeable parts and less snobbish attitudes than we see in places like europe. In the us, you have natural resources to dispose: not the first place that adopted standardization. The history of interchangeable parts: first developed in france ( snobbish attitudes) In france, you had the development of many interchangeable and standardized parts (18th century: france did not want to adopt these ideas, power and control. In france, when these techniques were adopted: decrease the french government power, greater disconnect, they thought traditional techniques of doing work would continue the power, compare this story to the us. November 21, 2017: us was more open to embrace these techniques, does not matter where ideas were developed, only matter where they succeed.
