automaker Employs around 250,000 people 90 facilities worldwideġ0 The Model T Also known as the Tin Lizzie 1902-1927Ĭhanged the way Americans lived, worked and traveled. Henry Ford established it in 1903 He introduced the model-T in 1908 Second largest U.S. He was 31 at the time Ran on a small ethanol engine with 4 bicycle wheels He sold it for $200ħ Sweepstakes (1901) Things were not going well for Henryīuilt a race car in hopes to start a new company with the winnings He beats the top racecar driver of the era Starts up Ford Motor Companyĩ Ford Motor Company An American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan. ![]() Returned to farm work to support his family He was hired as an engineer at Edison Illuminating Company In 1893 he was promoted to chief engineerĦ Ford Quadricycle The first vehicle designed by Henry Ford Was very skilled with the equipment Revolutionized the industry Made the Model-Tĥ Early Career Multiple small jobs In 1888 he married Clara Ala Bryant Children are encouraged to participate in sexual behaviour Very different from our societyįord is worshipped in Brave New World instead of God Phrases like “Oh Ford” and “Cleanliness is next to Fordliness” Brave New World strongly supports having something to believe in, and in the case that their world revolves around technology, they worship the man that revolutionized technology and industry They cut the tops off the cross to make them into “T”Ĥ Henry Ford Born Jnear Dearborn, Michigan Lived on a farm ![]() Human embryos and fetuses are conditioned via a carefully designed regimen of chemical (such as exposure to hormones and toxins), thermal (exposure to intense heat or cold, as one's future career would dictate), and other environmental stimuli, although there is an element of selective breeding as well.Presentation on theme: "Henry Ford Brave New World."- Presentation transcript:įuturistic society Central London Soma (ideal pleasure drug), sex and Henry Ford are the societies building blocks Embryos are grown, not born Each embryo is conditioned for different work Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon. Nonetheless, Huxley emphasizes conditioning over breeding (see nature versus nurture) as science writer Matt Ridley put it, Brave New World describes an "environmental not a genetic hell". Huxley's family included a number of prominent biologists including Thomas Huxley, half-brother and Nobel Laureate Andrew Huxley, and brother Julian Huxley who was a biologist and involved in the eugenics movement. However, Gregor Mendel's work with inheritance patterns in peas had been re-discovered in 1900 and the eugenics movement, based on artificial selection, was well established. The biological techniques used to control the populace in Brave New World do not include genetic engineering Huxley wrote the book before the structure of DNA was known. Any residual unhappiness is resolved by an antidepressant and hallucinogenic drug called soma (named for an intoxicating drink in ancient India) distributed by the Arch-Community Songster of Canterbury, a secularised version of the Christian sacrament of Communion ("The Body of Christ"). The novel's Gregorian calendar year is AD 2540, but it is referred to in the book as AF 632.įrom birth, members of every class are indoctrinated by recorded voices repeating slogans while they sleep (called "hypnopædia" in the book) to believe that their own class is best for them. The World State calendar numbers years in the "AF" era-"After Ford"-with year 1 AF being equivalent to 1908 AD, the year in which Ford's first Model T rolled off his assembly line. ![]() In this sense, some fragments of traditional religion are present, such as Christian crosses, which had their tops cut off in order to be changed to a "T". ![]() At the same time as the World State lacks any supernatural-based religions, Ford himself is revered as a deity, and characters celebrate Ford Day and swear oaths by his name (e.g., "By Ford!"). The World State is built upon the principles of Henry Ford's assembly line-mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods.
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