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Manufacturing timeline

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    Manufacturing

  • Model A

    Model A
    The first Ford car was made and named the model A.
  • Flight

    Flight
    Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights in the first powered aircraft at kitty hawk, North Carolina
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford
    Henry Ford was an automobile manufacturer who made the company Ford. He became known for it in 1903 When he made the Model A.
  • Lisle Corporation

    Lisle Corporation
    The Lisle Corporation was founded in 1903 by C.A. Lisle. It was the first product being horse-powered water well drilling machines.
  • Assembly line

    Assembly line
    The first assembly line was made possible by Ransom Olds, even though Henry Ford is credited for it, it was Ransom Olds who invented it
  • Submarine

    Submarine
    The submarine was constructed by Cornelius Drebbel in the seventeenth century, it wasn’t implemented and wildly used until WW1, it is now used in many navy’s
  • First tank

    First tank
    Little Willie was the first tank ever created, it was made in England in 1915 after Ernest Swinton and William Hanley proposed the idea in 1914
  • NSK

    NSK
    NSK was invented in Tokyo, Japan on November 8th 1916. The founder was Takehiko Yamaguchi.
  • Model A remade

    Model A remade
    The Ford model A was rebuilt in 1927, they designed it after the model T yet used the name Model A again
  • Nuclear power

    Nuclear power
    It began in the 1930s, Enrico Fermi who was a physicist was the first to show that neutrons could split atoms, in 1942 he achieved the first nuclear chain reaction
  • Atomic bomb

    Atomic bomb
    The first nuclear bomb or atomic bomb was made nicknamed the “gadget” it was tested in New Mexico, it also started the manufacturing of nuclear fusion
  • SpaceX

    SpaceX
    SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk. He wanted to help change the aerospace industry.
  • Tesla

    Tesla
    Tesla was founded in 2003 by Elon Musk, Martin Eberhard, JB Straubel, Ian Wright, and Mark Tarpenning. They created Tesla to prove that you didn’t need to compromise to drive electric cars.