Henry Ford

Tuesday (12/06/2012)

a)      Animal Carts.

·         Animal carts and wagons were invented to transport goods from a place to another; crossing the mountains, rivers and fields. Kai Song: horses! Alisa: cows! Jia Xun: donkeys! Hiro: Monkeys….the class laughed but it was a good try as kids rationalized that monkeys are not strong enough. Yee Xuan: Orang Utan. Well, Orang Utan can be rather dangerous animals as they are aggressive if threatened.

b)      Horses everywhere!

* Horse carts were everywhere on streets. Policemen rode on horses too. Thus, it was very noisy and streets were dirty. Positively, they were still very important to people.

c)       Henry Ford.

·         He was the Father of Automobiles….He loved doing experiments with machines and invented “engine” which was used in his invention of “Quadricycle” which had 4 wheels, an engine and a comfortable seat. Animals were not required! It immediately attracted peoples’ attention because the streets were quieter with less horses’ sounds and cleaner  with no feces discharge or poo. Henry kept improving his cras and produced the famous Model T. He had introduced the systematic installation that influenced the industrialization world. In fact, some information said that he had so many happy workers that they produced a car in less than a minute…….unbelievable! Even today’s market can’t do that.

·         Henry was the sixth in the family of a rich farmer. He preferred being a mechanic than a farmer. As he grew up, Henry worked as a part-time mechanic learning about machines.  He did lots of experiments and invented Model T car which was very popular. He passed away at the age 84 but his knowledge had been passed to enable production of better and improved cars!

d)      Video Clips.

l       It was so nice to see the evolution of cars from 1900 till today. Lots of beautiful and trendy cars!

l       We also watched clip on Henry Ford and heard a song of Transportation.