首页
登录
职称英语
It is hard for modern people to imagine the life one hundred years ago. No telev
It is hard for modern people to imagine the life one hundred years ago. No telev
游客
2023-12-14
43
管理
问题
It is hard for modern people to imagine the life one hundred years ago. No television, no plastic, no ATMs, no DVDs. Illnesses like tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia meant only death. Of course, cloning appeared only in science fiction. Not to mention, computer and Internet.
Today, our workplace are equipped with assembly lines, fax machines, computers. Our daily life is cushioned by air conditioners, cell phones. Antibiotics helped created a long list of miracle drugs. The bypass operation saved millions. The discovery of DNA has revolutionized the way scientists think about new therapies. Man finally stepped on the magical and mysterious Moon. With the rapid changes we have been experiencing, the anticipation for the future is higher than ever.
A revolutionary manufacturing process made it possible for anyone to own a car. Henry Ford is the man who put the world on wheels.
When it comes to singling out those who have made a difference in all our lives, you cannot overlook Henry Ford. A historian a century from now might well conclude that it was Henry Ford who most influenced all manufacturing everywhere, even to this day, by introducing a new way to make cars—one, strange to say, that originated in slaughter houses.
Back in the early 1900s, slaughter houses used what could have been called a "disassembly line." That is, the carcass of a slain steer or a pig was moved past various meat-cutters, each of whom cut off only a certain portion. Ford reversed this process to see if it would speed up production of a part of an automobile engine called a magneto. Rather than have each worker completely assemble a magneto, one of its elements was placed on a conveyer, and each worker, as it passed, added another component to it, the same one each time. Professor David Hounshell, of The University of Delaware, an expert on industrial development tells what happened: "The previous day, workers carrying out the entire process had averaged one magneto every 20 minutes. But on that day, on the line, the assembly team averaged one every 13 minutes and 10 seconds per person."
Within a year, the time had been reduced to five minutes. In 1913, Ford went all the way. Hooked together by ropes, partially assembled vehicles were towed past workers who completed them one piece at a time. It wasn’t long before Ford was turning out several hundred thousand cars a year, a remarkable achievement then. And so efficient and economical was this new system that he cut the price of his cars in half, to $260, putting them within reach of all those who, up until that time, could not afford them. Soon, auto makers over the world copied him. In fact, he encouraged them to do so by writing a book about all of his innovations, entitled Today and Tomorrow. The Age of the Automobile had arrived. Today, aided by robots and other forms of automation, everything from toasters to perfumes is made on assembly lines.
Edsel Ford, Henry’s great-grandson, and a Ford vice president: “I think that my great-grandfather would just be amazed at how far technology has come."
Many of today’s innovations come from Japan. Norman Bodek, who publishes books about manufacturing processes, finds this ironic. On a recent trip to Japan he talked to two of the top officials of Toyota. "When I asked them where these secrets came from, where their ideas came from to manufacture in a totally different way, they laughed, and they said. ’Well. We just read it in Henry Ford’s book from 1926: Today and Tomorrow.’" [br] Before assembly line was introduced, the price of a Ford’s car was
选项
A、$260.
B、130
C、520
D、1040
答案
C
解析
最后一段引语部分讲到丰田高官采用完全不同的制造方法的想法来自Today and Tomorrow这本书,而这是日本革新的一个例子,可见B“很多日本的革新都从《今天和明天》吸取灵感”正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3272515.html
相关试题推荐
Manypeopleclaimthatonlypeoplewhoearnalotofmoneyaresuccessful.Do
YellowFeverItisclearthattomanypeopleinth
YellowFeverItisclearthattomanypeopleinth
Somepeopleprefertospendtimewithoneortwoclosefriends.Otherschoose
PeoplesoccupiedNorthAmericabeforethearrivalofthe【M1】______
PeoplesoccupiedNorthAmericabeforethearrivalofthe【M1】______
PeoplesoccupiedNorthAmericabeforethearrivalofthe【M1】______
PeoplesoccupiedNorthAmericabeforethearrivalofthe【M1】______
PeoplesoccupiedNorthAmericabeforethearrivalofthe【M1】______
PeoplesoccupiedNorthAmericabeforethearrivalofthe【M1】______
随机试题
GreekMythologyGreekmythologyconcernstheanci
【S1】[br]【S4】because∧→oftheirvaryingabilitiesandpersonalities是名词性词组,不是从句。
FourStepsofLearningaForeignLanguageTheeffortsspentinhighschoollearn
关于心肌自律细胞的正确说法是()A.可分为快反应自律细胞和慢反应自律细胞 B
大型计算机网络中的主机通常采用A.微机 B.小型机 C.大型机 D.巨型机
某官员出身寒微通过科举考试走上仕途下列选项中,该官员生活的朝代可能是()A.
套利组合模型在资源配置方面的一项重要应用,就是根据对市场走势的预测来选择具有不同
关于买进看跌期权的说法(不计交易费用),正确的是()。A.看跌期权买方的最大
人类婚姻行为的主要动机包括()。多选A.爱情 B.经济 C.繁衍 D.娱乐
按新颁布的《医疗事故处理条例》规定,下述情形中,属于三级医疗事故的是() A.
最新回复
(
0
)