Shop Theory (Henry Ford Trade School)
Shop Theory (Henry Ford Trade School)

Author: Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford Trade School

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2019-01-13

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 1789123100

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This book is the revised 1941 mid-century guide on the basic principles of Shop from the prestigious Henry Ford Trade School, first published in 1934. The book was used by students attending Shop Theory classes and focusses on the historical development, principles of construction, and use, care, and operation of hand tools, precision tools, and the usual toolroom machines and equipment. The lesson sheet method of instruction, supplemented by lecture and discussion, is used. This compilation of the sheets, which was revised and brought up to date, should prove valuable as a reference for students and shop instructors.

Shop Theory
Shop Theory

Author: Henry Ford Trade School

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781494069520

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This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.

Henry Ford's Lean Vision
Henry Ford's Lean Vision

Author: William A. Levinson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1040283853

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Japanese manufacturers have made concepts like kaizen (continuous improvement), poka-yoke (error-proofing), and just-in-time famous. When the Japanese began to adopt these techniques from the Ford Motor Company during the early twentieth century, they knew exactly what they were getting: proven methods for mass-producing any product or delivering any service cheaply but well. Henry Ford's methods, however, went well beyond the synergistic and mutually supporting techniques that constitute what we now call lean manufacturing. They included the "soft sciences," the organizational psychology that makes every employee a partner in the drive for success. In Henry Ford's Lean Vision, William A. Levinson draws from Henry Ford's writings, the procedures in his factories, and historical anecdotes about the birth of lean in Japan to show that the philosophy that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing was the same philosophy that grew the Ford Motor Company into a global powerhouse -- and made the United States the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth. Levinson reveals how Ford was ahead of other modern visionaries and discusses why the very ideas that made his company such a success were abandoned in his own country, and why they finally found acceptance in Japan. Henry Ford's Lean Vision is a hands-on reference that provides the reader with proven principles and methods that can be applied in any business or service enterprise. It covers all aspects of building and running a successful enterprise, including Ford's principles for human relationships and the management of physical resources.

Little Machinery
Little Machinery

Author: Mary Liddell

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780814332665

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An updated edition that situates a landmark 1920s children's picture book in its historical and social context.

Old Fields
Old Fields

Author: John R. Stilgoe

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 735

ISBN-13: 0813935164

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Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing when viewed through the lens of photography, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension. In Old Fields, John Stilgoe—one of the most original observers of his time—offers a poetic and controversial exploration of the generations-long effort to portray glamour. Fusing three forces in contemporary American culture—amateur photography after 1880; the rise of glamour and fantasy; and the often-mysterious quality of landscape photographs—Stilgoe provides a wide-ranging yet concentrated take on the cultural legacy of our photographic history. Through the medium of "shop theory"—the techniques, tools, and purpose-made equipment a maker uses to realize intent—Stilgoe looks at the role of Eastman Kodak in shaping the ways photographers purchased cameras and films, while also mapping the divisions that were created by European-made cameras. He then goes on to argue that with the proliferation of digital cameras, smart phones, and Instagram, young people’s lack of knowledge about photographic technique is in direct correlation to their lack of knowledge of the history of glamour photography. In his exploration of the rise of glamour and fantasy in contemporary American culture, Stilgoe offers a provocative and very personal look into his enduring fascination with, and the possibilities inherent in, creating one’s own images.

Federal Offenders
Federal Offenders

Author: United States. Bureau of Prisons

Publisher:

Published: 1935

Total Pages: 1460

ISBN-13:

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1930/31- include Annual report of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons: 1930/31-32/33, the Report of the Board of Parole.

Rhetoric, Inc.
Rhetoric, Inc.

Author: Timothy Johnson

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0271088311

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In 1914, the Ford Motor Company opened its Motion Picture Laboratory, an in-house operation that produced motion pictures to educate its workforce and promote its products. Just six years later, Ford films had found their way into schools and newsreels, travelogues, and even feature films in theaters across the country. It is estimated that by 1961, the company’s movies had captured an audience of sixty-four million people. This study of Ford’s corporate film program traces its growth and rise in prominence in corporate America. Drawing on nearly three hundred hours of material produced between 1914 and 1954, Timothy Johnson chronicles the history of Ford’s filmmaking campaign and analyzes selected films, visual and narrative techniques, and genres. He shows how what began as a narrow educational initiative grew into a global marketing strategy that presented a vision not just of Ford or corporate culture but of American life more broadly. In these films, Johnson uncovers a powerful rhetoric that Ford used to influence American labor, corporate style, production practices, road building, suburbanization, and consumer culture. The company’s early and continued success led other corporations to adopt similar programs. Persuasive and thoroughly researched, Rhetoric, Inc. documents the role that imagery and messaging played in the formation of the modern American corporation and provides a glimpse into the cultural turn to the economy as a source of entertainment, value, and meaning.