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• With a vision to make travel available affordable to the middle class, Ford sought to supply an affordable car for ordinary people. The result was the Model T, introduced on October 1, 1908, with a price tag of $850. Ford considered the price a little high, and made it his goal to lower the price.

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• The first model was a touring car, but within just a few months, several other body styles were introduced, including a 2-passenger coupe, 3-passenger roadster, 2-passenger open runabout, and a 6-passenger town car. Eventually, the line expanded to nine designs.

• The designers of the original Model T were Childe Harold Wills, Joseph Galamb, and Eugene Farkas. The automobile was manufactured from vanadium alloy steel, much stronger than any steel available, yet lightweight. It contained an enclosed four-cylinder engine and transmission.

A crank was used to start the engine. Mounted on the side of the driver’s seat were three foot pedals and a lever that controlled the rear-wheel drive vehicle. The throttle was controlled with a lever on the steering wheel, which was on the left side. The Model T was the first Ford with all of its parts built by the company itself.

• The top speed of the first Model T was 45 mph, and it achieved gas mileage of 13 to 21 miles per gallon. Its higher ground clearance made it especially desirable to rural drivers who drove on very poor roads.

• Although marketed as a three-speed auto, one of those was the reverse. The Model T could run on gasoline, kerosene, or ethanol.

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• The first Model T’s were offered in gray, green, blue, and red. In 1914, in an attempt to lower the price of the car, Henry Ford changed the color of all Model T’s to black. Black paint was the most durable and dried the fastest, speeding up production and reducing costs. This resulted in Ford’s most famous quote, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants – so long as it’s black!”

• Automobiles became more affordable when the assembly line was introduced. Prior to that, vehicles were assembled one at a time, from beginning to end. In 1901, Ransom E. Olds created the first stationary assembly line, increasing production by four times, from 425 cars in 1901 to 2,500 in 1902. The assembly line broke the process down into smaller tasks, reducing production time, leading to cost reduction. However, it was Henry Ford’s invention of the first moving assembly line in 1913 that led to mass-production.

• Ford’s moving assembly line was inspired by Chicago meatpacking plants that utilized a conveyor belt system during production. In 1913, Ford built a new 60-acre factory in Highland Park, Michigan, the first to assemble autos on his new invention. The factory was divided into sectors, with each area assembling a single part of the Model T, with the number of sections eventually reaching 500. Within six months of the plant’s opening, the improved efficiency had cut the manufacturing time of a Model T engine from 9 hrs., 54 minutes to 5 hrs., 56 minutes. Production time of each automobile decreased from 728 minutes to 93. Ford met his goal of making cars available to the common man by reducing the price of the Model T from $850 in 1908 to $700 in 1910 to $350 in 1917. ...continued

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• Production in 1913 was upwards of 200,000 Model T’s and the number of Ford employees more than doubled.

• Because Henry Ford believed that happy workers who were satisfied with their wages did a better job, in 1914, he raised the wages of his factory employees from $2.34/day ($59 in today’s dollars) to $5.00/day ($125 in today’s dollars). This was over double the wages paid at other manufacturing plants.

• Ford also reduced the work day from nine hours to eight, running his 13,000 workers in a threeshift system, operating 24 hours a day. These actions reduced the turnover rate of 31.9% in 1913 to 1.4% by 1915.

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• In 1914, close to 300,000 Model T’s were sold.

Due to his production methods, Ford produced about the same number of cars as his competitors, but with only one-fourth as many employees. By 1916, the price had dropped to $360 for the basic touring car. By 1918, half of all the cars in America were Model T’s.

• In the mid-1920s, Ford’s mass-production techniques enabled the plant to produce a Model T every 24 seconds. By 1924, a new runabout could be had for $260. Yet sales of the Model T began to decline because of a sharp increase in competitors. After long deliberations, the decision was made that the vehicle would cease production, and the last Model T exited the assembly line on May 26, 1927. In December of that year, a redesigned Model A was brought back. The change in the assembly line resulted in the scrapping of 40,000 tools used in the production of Model T’s.

• More than 15 million Model T’s were sold during the years of its production. That places it in eighth place on the Top Ten list of most sold cars of all time. It was chosen as the most influential car of the 20th century.

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• On Oct. 9, 1635, religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts.

Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension.

• On Oct. 13, 1775, the Continental Congress authorizes construction and administration of the first American naval force, the precursor to the United States Navy, which was established April 1798.

• On Oct. 12, 1786, widower Thomas Jefferson composes a romantic and introspective love letter to a married woman named Maria Cosway, who he'd met in Paris earlier that year. Eventually Jefferson's ardor cooled, and in 1789 he wrote more about his scientific studies than of his love and desire for her. The now-famous letter is known to historians as "A Dialogue between the Head and Heart."

• On Oct. 7, 1943, Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara, commander of the Japanese garrison on Wake Island, orders the execution of 96 Americans POWs, claiming they were trying to make radio contact with U.S. forces. The cold-blooded executions remain one of the more brutal episodes of the war in the Pacific.

• On Oct. 10, 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower offers his apologies to Ghana's finance minister, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, who was refused service at a restaurant in Dover, Delaware. It was one of the first of many such incidents in which African diplomats were confronted with racial segregation in the U.S. • On Oct. 11, 1962, Pope John XXIII convenes an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, the first in 92 years. The pope hoped to bring spiritual rebirth to Catholicism and cultivate greater unity with the other branches of Christianity.

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• As a child, Carroll enjoyed entertaining his siblings with games and stories, even though he lived with a pronounced stammer his entire life. But it was the study of mathematics that he pursued at Christ Church, Oxford, earning a first-class degree in the subject, and being appointed a lecturer at the university one year after graduation.

• This distinguished scholar worked in geometry, linear and matrix algebra, and mathematical logic, writing 12 books under his birth name. With his mathematical and logical personality, he was a very organized, precise, and punctual man who made lists of everything in his life, including logging all of his menu plans in his diary.

Thirteen volumes of his diaries have been preserved.

• Carroll was also a prolific letter-writer and kept a register of all the letters he composed from age 29 until his death at 65. The 24-volume index logged 98,721 letters.

• In addition to his many pastimes, Carroll was an inventor, devising a writing tablet called the nyctograph that enabled him to write in the dark, for those times when he awoke with an idea he wanted to record without leaving his bed. He also invented a double-sided adhesive strip for mounting things in books. All the while, he continued teaching his classes at Oxford.

• While in his 20s, he met the Liddell family, and grew especially fond of their daughter Alice, and, although Carroll denied it for many years, he based his adventures of Alice upon his young friend.

• At age 33, Carroll published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was met with overwhelming success. It was the story of the young girl who fell through a rabbit hole into a whimsical world filled with imaginary creatures, many based on a deck of cards. As his fame spread around the world, his life was disrupted with fan mail and a bit of unwanted attention. Although Alice was one of the most popular books in the world, none of Carroll’s subsequent works reached the same level of esteem.

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• The name of Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, one of 11 children of a Church of England cleric. Carroll was tutored as a child by his father, but sent to boarding school at age 12. He was a sickly child, suffering a fever that left him deaf in one ear, followed by severe whooping cough. He grew to nearly six feet tall, but his body was considered asymmetric, that is, one shoulder was higher than the other, his eyes were not at the same level, and his smile was somewhat lop-sided.

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• Growing up in a home of 11 children, Carroll loved the companionship of young people, and when on a train journey, he carried games and puzzles with him to entertain children who might happen to be on a trip. He was an avid game player, including croquet, backgammon, billiards, and chess. He devised card tricks and math and word puzzles, including the forerunner of the game we know as Scrabble. He wrote poetry, attended the theater and opera, was a deacon in the Church of England, and somehow found the time to open a photography studio, creating some 3,000 photographs.

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• All species of dog have a pink tongue -- except one. Chows' tongues are black.

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• According to a recent Zinus study on sleep anxiety in America, women are more likely than men to dream about being chased and having teeth fall out. Men, though, dream more often about being naked in public and flying.

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October 6th has been deemed Mad Hatter Day, named for a famous character in Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Tidbits celebrates this observance with some interesting info on this fantasy figure.

• Lewis Carroll introduced the Mad Hatter in his 1865 novel, but oddly enough, although readers seem to always refer to the character as the Mad Hatter, Carroll never refers to him as that, but merely as the Hatter. However, he did name Chapter 7 of the book “A Mad Tea Party,” in which the two party hosts, the Hatter and the March Hare, are called “both mad” by the Cheshire Cat. • The term “mad as a hatter” came along much earlier than Carroll’s novel. During the 19th century, hat-making was a leading trade in Carroll’s community. Mercury was used in their manufacturing process, and hat-makers frequently suffered from mercury poisoning, and exhibited slurred speech, memory loss, confusion, and tremors, with many dying young as a result, giving way to the phrase “mad as a hatter.”

• Speculation is that Lewis Carroll modeled the Mad Hatter after a peculiar and eccentric British furniture dealer from Oxford named Theophilus Carter. Carter came to be known as the Mad Hatter when he stood in the doorway of his shop, always wearing a top hat. The illustrator of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was Sir John Tenniel, a well-known political cartoonist and illustrator.

He is said to have traveled to Oxford to capture Carter’s image in his sketches for the book.

• Tenniel drew the Hatter adorned with a large top hat with a hatband reading “In this style 10/6,” which referred to the hat’s price tag. This signified the amount in British money of ten shillings and six pence, which led to choosing the date and month to celebrate Mad Hatter Day, October 6.

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• In Chapter 7 of the novel, the Mad Hatter recited a parody of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” entitled “Twinkle,Ttwinkle, Little Bat,” which goes on to say, “How I wonder what you’re at!

Up above the world you fly, Like a tea tray in the sky.” He switches places at the tea table numerous times, recites nonsense, and asks riddles with no answer.

• The Hatter appeared briefly in the Alice sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, which was published in 1871.

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• The Mad Hatter became a comic book character in 1948, when he made his debut in a Batman comic as the villain Jervis Tetch, who keeps various gadgets stored in his hat, mindcontrolling devices that enable him to manipulate his victims.

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• In 1951, Walt Disney released his animated Alice feature, with the Hatter voiced by Ed Wynn.

His large top hat contains cake and other smaller hats. In 2010, Tim Burton debuted his version of the classic tale, casting Johnny Depp in the role of the Hatter, with the name Tarrant Hightopp.

• Tom Petty suited up as the Mad Hatter in a giant crimson hat, black bowtie, and rectangular sunglasses in his 1985 music video “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” a video described as “psychedelic strangeness.”

• The Hatter has been a character in numerous video games, musicals, and television series.

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