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= = __**Automobiles**__ Oh the automobile, we all remember how they used to look back when they were first made, I'm sure we've seen pictures and just cringed a little when we see the difference from the first car to the newer cars today. These machines allowed us to be free and independent more than we ever thought they could. They allow us to travel places all over, from the short distances to the long distances.Automobiles were invented in 1886 but the Ford Model T was invented in 1908 and that's whenever they became a little easier to afford for some people, so let's see who could have a car and who couldn't, shall we?

=Middle Class Transportation=

In 1900 there were only 8,000 cars in the entire country, owned naturally by the very rich. But by 1925, a new Model T was rolling off the assembly line every 15 seconds. By 1930, there were more than 26 million cars used by about half the population. Thanks largely to Henry Ford's use of standardized parts and the assembly line, costs fell even as wages rose throughout the country. Before World War I a car cost the average American worker the equivalent of 24 months wages. By the late 1920s a car could be purchased for about 3 months' wages. By 1928, more than three quarters of all the cars in the world were in America.

The middle class couldnt afford a high top expensive car and at the beginning of the cars being produced they were also much more expensive and no middle class person could afford one, In the first couple of years they were being made only rich folks bought them but for a middle class men to afford one they would have to save up to 24 months of income and even poorer people it would take longer or they would never get one at all. Around 1920 the industry was doing so well that they lowered the price so middle class people could buy them and at this time it would only take 3 to 5 months of wages. Males would be the ones who usally are driving and buying these automobiles becasue in these times females were staying at home and taking care of the house and kids but males used these to get to point A to B and that all they needed em for, As for the females you would rarely see them buying nor even driving a car. There wasnt any power steering so it was very difficult to control for a female but a strong male would be able to control it so you didnt see females driving you usally saw them riding along with their man. Middle class person with a Ford Model T!

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=**Upper Class Transportation**= A lot of rich people in the the higher class could afford the automobile easily since they had a lot of money but since these cars were a little complicated to work, the rich usually had a chauffeur work the engine and drive them around. The rich actually had it easy while others like the lower and middle had it tough since vehicles were a bit more expensive for them. The upper class had a lot of power obviously since they had so much money, so they could practically get anything they wanted. They didn't have to go through the struggles that others had to face, for example, a lack of transportation.







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**__Essential Question:__ Why are the benefits and drawbacks of experimentation in our society generally and in our lives more specifically?** The benefits and drawbacks of experimentation in our society are somewhat good because they supply us with much simpler things to help us. Cars for example, help us travel and save us so much more time then just walking on foot to get wherever we need to go. These new experiments provide us with easier things to use and we're all just very lucky to have these special things in our lives because who knows what we would do without them, we'd probably lose our minds. Our lives are better because of the new things that are being invented today and I can't wait to see what people come up with next.