Ta sẽ có được sức mạnh của sự cám dỗ mà ta cưỡng lại được. (We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.)Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sự nguy hại của nóng giận còn hơn cả lửa dữ. Kinh Lời dạy cuối cùng
Hạnh phúc chân thật là sự yên vui, thanh thản mà mỗi chúng ta có thể đạt đến bất chấp những khó khăn hay nghịch cảnh. Tủ sách Rộng Mở Tâm Hồn
Điều khác biệt giữa sự ngu ngốc và thiên tài là: thiên tài vẫn luôn có giới hạn còn sự ngu ngốc thì không. (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.)Albert Einstein
Kẻ làm điều ác là tự chuốc lấy việc dữ cho mình.Kinh Bốn mươi hai chương
Với kẻ kiên trì thì không có gì là khó, như dòng nước chảy mãi cũng làm mòn tảng đá.Kinh Lời dạy cuối cùng
"Nó mắng tôi, đánh tôi, Nó thắng tôi, cướp tôi." Ai ôm hiềm hận ấy, hận thù không thể nguôi.Kinh Pháp cú (Kệ số 3)
Mục đích của cuộc sống là sống có mục đích.Sưu tầm
Hành động thiếu tri thức là nguy hiểm, tri thức mà không hành động là vô ích. (Action without knowledge is dangerous, knowledge without action is useless. )Walter Evert Myer
Hào phóng đúng nghĩa với tương lai chính là cống hiến tất cả cho hiện tại. (Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.)Albert Camus
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Some inventions are based on simple ideas or principles. Barometers are based on the
idea that air has weight and pushes down on objects. A barometer measures this air
pressure. Evangelista Terricelli invented barometers in Italy in 1643.
Other inventions have taken longer to develop. The automobile has thousands of parts
and it took a long time to make a really useful car. Henry Ford was one of the first people
to make a reliable automobile.
In 1765, James Watt invented the steam engine. Within a few years, a Frenchman, Nicolas
Cugnot, had built a steampowered vehicle. These steam carriages were used in England
in the 1800s. But they were big and slow. They looked like a train without the tracks. Most
people preferred to travel by train.
In Germany during the 1870s and 1880s, Nikolaus Otto and Gottlieb Daimler developed
the internal combustion engine. This ran by burning gasoline. Another German, Karl
Benz, built a gasolinepowered car.
Around the world, there were many inventors trying to build a car that would be better
than the one before. Some people thought that electric cars would become common. In
the 1890s, several inventors working in the United States developed a gasolinepowered
car that was practical for daily use.
Henry Ford was born on a farm in Michigan in 1863. As a boy, he loved to take clocks and
watches apart and reassemble them. Eventually, he went to work for the Detroit Edison
Company. In his spare time, he worked on a horseless carriage, as the early cars were
called. In 1896, he completed a car that ran smoothly. He later sold it and made another
one. Since early cars were made by hand, they were usually quite expensive. Not only
that, but when they broke down, there were no repair shops to take them to. One had to
know how to repair a car oneself.
Henry Ford tried to make cars which would be affordable, and which would not break
down very easily. His Ford Motor Company was formed in 1903 in Detroit, Michigan.
Since many parts had to be brought together to make a car, Ford developed the assembly
line. On the line, each worker would do one specific job. When the car reached the end of
the assembly line, it was finished. In this way, many cars could be made in a single day.
The result was that Ford was able to bring the price of cars down.
Ford's Model T car was advertised as being as frisky as a jack rabbit and more
durable than a mule. Since it cost hundreds, rather than thousands, of dollars, many
ordinary families were now able to buy a car. Once many people had cars, their habits
began to change. People didn't have to live next to the factories or offices that they
worked in. Going for Sunday drives or travelling to tourist sites became a common thing.
In 1905, a car drove across the United States and back again. In 1912, a car went across
Canada from coast to coast. Soon there was public pressure for good roads so that cars
could travel anywhere in North America.
Henry Ford was not the only inventor of the modern car. However, he was able to make a
car that everyone could use and afford.
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