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Horse Manure Crisis
"It was entitled 'The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894' and it explained how innovation in a free marketplace solved the problem urban planners of that day said was unsolvable. You see, in the 1890's horses were the primary means of moving things around, including people, and as the cities grew the number of horses grew. It was estimated that New York City had 100,000 horses producing 2.5-million pounds of horse manure every day, and they couldn't just let it pile up."
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George Waring
"George E. Waring Jr., a sanitation engineer and Civil War veteran, took charge of what is now the Department of Sanitation in 1895."
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Horseless Carriage
"On June 4, 1896 in a tiny workshop behind his home on 58 Bagley Avenue, Henry Ford put the finishing touches on his gasoline-powered motor car."
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Urban Planning Conference
"In 1898 the first international urban-planning conference convened in New York. It was abandoned after three days, instead of the scheduled ten, because none of the delegates could see any solution to the growing crisis posed by urban horses and their output."
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4,192 Cars Sold
"In the year 1900, of the 4,192 cars produced in the United States, 28% of them were electric."
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Ford Motor Company
"Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903."
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365,000+ Cars
More than 365,000 cars had been sold.
"Sales were 69,762 in 1911; 170,211 in 1912; 202,667 in 1913; 308,162 in 1914; and 501,462 in 1915."
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