A Booming Economy
Mass production is the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products.
With this, there was more of a certain product, thus lowering the rarity and the price. The first product to be affected by this was the automobile, or car. At first, it was too expensive to be bought by the average American, so it was a sign of wealth. Then, Henry Ford introduced the Model T, a cheaper, more reliable car. The reason it was cheaper was because of how it was made. The workers used an assembly line, which had each worker at a certain step in the building process. At each step, the worker would add something to the vehicle to construct it. With this pattern of work, the time to make a car was reduced from 12 hours to 90 minutes. Because of the larger amount of cars that were able to be produced, they became more common, and thus less expensive due to rarity drop.
Here are two more products that were affected by mass production:
With this, there was more of a certain product, thus lowering the rarity and the price. The first product to be affected by this was the automobile, or car. At first, it was too expensive to be bought by the average American, so it was a sign of wealth. Then, Henry Ford introduced the Model T, a cheaper, more reliable car. The reason it was cheaper was because of how it was made. The workers used an assembly line, which had each worker at a certain step in the building process. At each step, the worker would add something to the vehicle to construct it. With this pattern of work, the time to make a car was reduced from 12 hours to 90 minutes. Because of the larger amount of cars that were able to be produced, they became more common, and thus less expensive due to rarity drop.
Here are two more products that were affected by mass production:
The Telephone
When the telephone was affected by mass production and became more common, telephone lines had to be strung all across the continent. With this service available, two people could converse together while in two different parts of the country. This affected society greatly, as meetings no longer had to planned far in advance. We still use the telephone today, and it had advanced far beyond what it had started as.
The Radio
The radio was the very first broadcasting medium. When the service became more available to the common american, it proved to revolutionary. The radio allowed for the advertisement of companies and products so they could rake in more sales. It was also a source of entertainment, with a wide range of programming, similar to today's TV shows. The radio is important to society because it inspired the making of the first TV, which is the main broadcasting medium of today.