By David Hounshell
In his richly illustrated 'From the yankee process of Mass creation, David Hounshell explores the improvement of the 'American process' of producing within the part century prior to the Civil conflict and the transition of the program into the 'mass construction' of the 20 th century.
Previous writers at the American method have implied or argued at once that the technical difficulties of mass construction were solved through antebellum hands makers, Hounshell argues, despite the fact that, drawing upon the vast company and production documents of top American firms...including Singer production, McCormick Harvesting equipment Co., Brown & proportion production, Pope production, and Ford Motor Com...that the diffusion of hands creation know-how was once neither as quick nor as tender as has been assumed. either the expression 'mass creation' and the expertise used to be that lay in the back of it have been advancements of the 20 th C, attributable largely to the Ford Motor Co.
Hounshell explores the real position of people within the diffusion and improvement of creation expertise and the critical position of promoting technique within the good fortune of chosen American manufactures. whereas Ford Motor corporation was once the seebed of the meeting line revolution, common automobiles initiated the hot period of annual version switch. With the recent business plan, the know-how of 'the changeover' turned of paramount value. Hounshell chronicles how painfully Ford realized this lesson with the switch from the version T to the version A after which to the V-8 in 1932.
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But the firm's founder never took a serious interest in the manufacture of his reaper. He left that to his youngest brother, Leander J. McCormick, who had learned only the craft of blacksmithing before he left the family's Virginia homestead to superintend Cyrus's Chicago factory. Between that date, 1848, and 1880 there is little evidence that Leander expanded his technical horizons to encompass the developments that have become known as the American system of manufactures. The McCormick factory employed almost no special- or single-purpose machinery, and there is little evidence that Leander knew of the techniques of special gauges, jigs, and fixtures which distinguished the arms industry.
From the outset, Cyrus McCormick had marketed his machine aggressively, spending what his brother William considered ''enormous'' sums of money on advertising. As the years proceeded, McCormick changed his initial agent or distributor system of sales to franchised dealerships supervised by regional office managers. 24 Although these changes resulted in greater sales and the potential for even more, Leander steadfastly refused to allow significant increases in the factory's output. For this reason and for related personal ones, Cyrus McCormick finally fired his brother as superintendent of the factory in 1880 and replaced him with a mechanic who was familiar with the latest production technology.
It has long been asserted that Cyrus McCormick adopted the manufacturing techniques developed in New England armories when he established the reaper works in Chicago in 1848. But the firm's founder never took a serious interest in the manufacture of his reaper. He left that to his youngest brother, Leander J. McCormick, who had learned only the craft of blacksmithing before he left the family's Virginia homestead to superintend Cyrus's Chicago factory. Between that date, 1848, and 1880 there is little evidence that Leander expanded his technical horizons to encompass the developments that have become known as the American system of manufactures.