Life in the Roaring Twenties

Unit 8

The Assembly Line

• 60-90 seconds to make a car

• Model T, affordable

• In 1920 cost $335

Henry Ford

• 9 million cars in 1920• 27 million cars in 1930

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Cars

Technology

• vacuum cleaners• washers• sewing machines• toasters and fans• cheap fuel– electricity– petroleum

• Installment buying– credit– Repaying in small

monthly payments

Air TravelCharles Lindberg

• 1st to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 33 hours, 1927

Amelia Earhart• Transatlantic flights 1928

and 1932

* Promoted the idea of commercial flight

New York to Paris