Henry Ford Forever Changes the Middle Class “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” (Henry Ford) The second Industrial Revolution was a period of time where manufacturing and urbanization. Four certain men had changed the society as it was then and now. Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller were important to the Second Industrial Revolution, these men were trying for the top position of richest man. Many inventions and technologies that people still use today were created in the second industrial revolution. Many technological advances changed the way people lived and these advanced transformed their lives. Henry Ford was the most influential person in the second industrial revolution …show more content…
Ford soon realized that the Model T became a huge success so Ford had to find a way to mass produce, this was the use of interchangeable parts, assembly line, and production plants. The assembly line changed the way things are produced and the workers were able to produce more in a shorter amount of time. When The Ford Motor Company reduced the cost of interchangeable parts it helped speed up the process even more than it was before. This has impacted our society many times because Ford was able to find a way to help the skilled and unskilled workers find jobs. Many people did not have the skill level to operate big machinery, when the assembly line was created jobs for unskilled workers became available, changing their society. This is how people that could not find a job because they were not skilled enough and now Ford created way for these types of people to be able to care and provide for their families. “The assembly line cut the amount of time it took to assemble a Model T from 12.5 hours to just 93 minutes.” This shows people that Ford created the assembly line for future people to use and get things done in factories and workplaces more efficiently.