Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Industry reaches two billion dollar mark—optimistic of future increase—point of saturation far off—reliability contest a factor in popularizing automobiles—Ford, the wizard who converted the industry to price reduction—installment plan of payment—part machining plays in low se...
Industry reaches two billion dollar mark—optimistic of future increase—point of saturation far off—reliability contest a factor in popularizing automobiles—Ford, the wizard who...
2. CHAPTER II.First horseless vehicle constructed by Cugnot, a Frenchman, over 150 years ago—invention traced in different countries, down to the first successful gasoline automobile made in...
3. CHAPTER III.Steam and electric types outstripped by gasoline car—co-operation partly popularized motor car—standardization enabled price reduction—tungsten and other alloys, heat treatment...
4. CHAPTER IV.Industry had little original capital invested in it—present investment largely made up of profits—difficulties in getting capital—dealers put up money to finance distribution—pr...
5. CHAPTER V.A medium of exchange of knowledge and ideas by bringing people together—uproots bigotry and removes prejudice—revolutionizes thought and habits, and liberalizes mind—emancipates...
6. CHAPTER VI.Economic history, and its relation to stock trading in the automobile industry—securities traded in on New York stock exchange and curb—securities on exchanges in other cities,...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.Benjamin Franklin was many-sided, and he had a great deal to do with much that affects the birth of the American nation; and if it had not been for what he and other patriots, s...
9. CHAPTER I.During the year 1916 the automobile industry in the United States entered the “billion dollar class,” and manufacturers who have membership in the National Automobile Chamber of...
10. CHAPTER II.We thought the development of the motor car was speedy, but we find that the measure of time required for its evolution, when put beside the span of human history, lengthens as...
11. CHAPTER III.It was chiefly the English, the French and the Germans, with the exception of Evans of Philadelphia, who first conceived the idea of the horseless carriage, and helped it to its...
12. CHAPTER IV.Do you know of any other industry in which money could have been at work in as great a creative capacity? We will not say in a capacity to produce immediate profits, because so...
13. CHAPTER V.The best teacher, it has been demonstrated, is one’s own experience. In learning anything, the mind can never grasp the lesson it is told, with the same understanding it receive...
14. CHAPTER VI.That it may be possible to comprehend the tendencies and probable trend of activity in the motor stock market, it will be necessary to look back at economic conditions which pre...
15. CHAPTER VII.The following is, as near as possible, a complete list of the passenger automobiles manufactured in the United States, with the number of cylinders and the retail price of each....
16. CHAPTER VIII.This chapter is reprinted from _Everybody’s Magazine_ through the courtesy of its publishers, who were kind enough to grant this permission. This list was compiled so ably by th...