1. Prosperity Dduring the Roaring Twenties
... of mass production and assembly lines, the large scale use of telephones, automobiles, electricity, modern technology, and motion pictures rapidly increased in the 1920s. Henry Ford's new implementation of the assembly line greatly dropped the production price of his Ford Model T from $1200 to only $295. He could build a single vehicle in less than 90 minutes, resulting in Model T's coming off the line ... in three-minute intervals. In less than a decade, Ford sold over fifteen million Model Ts. By 1929, the United States had produced over 90% of the 32 million automobiles in the world....
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