... , have a very high percentage of obesity, especially in children. The Industrial Revolution introduced the world to the assembly line. One of the first people to use the assembly line was Henry Ford; he made sure that soon almost every family owned and automobile. In part because of his innovation, automobiles are polluting our air and draining our earth of precious natural resources ... . The famous McDonald's brothers were the first to adapt Henry Ford's assembly line process to the restaurant business. Now our cities are full of fast-food chains which hire inexperienced labor instead o...

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... in 1901 would begin by Ransome Eli Olds , he invented the idea of an assembly line and began the Detroit auto industry. In 1903, Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company and improved Detroit's assembly line by using conveyor belts. Ford became the largest auto manufacturer in the world. That same year William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson improved Daimler's idea of an engine on ... ...

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... with electric generators and related equipment. In 1878 the first gas engine was patented. This was responsible for the first production of the Model-T, the nations first automobile made by Henry Ford. Millions of people bought the Model-T, and that in turn called for millions of pounds of steel ,glass, rubber, petroleum, and other materials viable materials to be produced. This called ... ...

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