history questions

I Identification and Significance. For each write a short paragraph (minimum 3 to 4 sentences). Make sure you are as incisive and factual with your response, and stress the significance of the person, place, or thing.

1. The Bicycle as a Technological Antecedent

2. “European by Birth, American by Adoption”

3. Early 20th century Electric Cars

4. Horatio Nelson Jackson

5. Henry Ford and the Origins of Mass Production

6. The Ford Model T

7. Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management

8. Sloanism and Production Changes, late 1920s-1930s

9. Billy Durant and General Motors

10. C.F. “Boss” Kettering and the Self-Starter

11. Harley Earl and Automotive Design

12. Ned Jordan and Automotive Advertising

13. The Rickenbacker Automobile

14. The Lincoln Highway

15. The Copper-Cooled Engine

16. Route 66