Automobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An automobile , motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles ar...
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Automated assembly lines consist entirely of machines run by machines. In such continuous-process industries as petroleum refining and chemical manufacture and in many modern automobile-engine plants, assembly lines are completely mechanized and consist almost entirely of automatic, self-regulating equipment.
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The assembly plant from which the finished automobile emerges is only the final element of a mass production operation that, ... In the final assembly line one can see clearly how machinery and human effort in assembly are divided into many specialized skills. The special tooling and machinery developed to handle assembly...
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The first automobile to be mass produced in the United States was the 1901, Curved Dash Oldsmobile, built by the American car manufacturer Ransome Eli Olds (1864-1950). Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and started the Detroit area automobile industry.
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The invention contemplates tachometer apparatus which functions from an electric pulse input which is of frequency directly related to engine speed of an internal combustion engine. ... Automobile manufacturers have problems stocking three different 4-cylinder, 6-cylinder and ... Device for easy attachment of line,
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If you want to experience a true engineering marvel, visit a modern automobile assembly line. We did, and we'll say without reservation that you'll be astonished at the vast amount of technology, quality, and precise planning that goes into assembling a vehicle.
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Modern automobile assembly line production quotas required time saving methods of construction. One such employed method is the use of removable pin door hinges to quickly remove the doors from a freshly painted automobile shell.
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Modern automobile mass production, and its use of the modern industrial assembly line, is credited to Henry Ford of Detroit, Michigan, who had built his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. Ford began producing his Model T in 1908, and by 1927, when it was discontinued, over 18 million had rolled off the assembly line.
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First Car And First Modern Automobile ... This breakthrough resulted in Ford becoming the largest manufacturer of automobiles in the world. The success of the assembly line production caught on with the automobile industry in general and spread worldwide to bring about future development in this field.
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