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Detroit, 1913.Henry Ford isn't just making a revolutionary car.
底特律，1913年，亨利·福特不僅制造出革命性的汽車
He's making it in a revolutionary way.
還創造了革命性的生產方式
The production line.High volume, low cost.Products identical.
生產線，高產量 ，低成本，產品規格統一
The man who places the part doesn't fasten it.
負責放置零件的人不用固定它
The man who puts in a bolt doesn't put on the nut,
負責上螺栓的人不用上螺母，
and the man who puts on the nut doesn't tighten it.
負責放螺母的人不用上緊它
Work is standardized.Simplified.
工作規范化，簡單化
It's a more efficient way to make... Everything.
不管生產什么 生產效率都更高了
Mass production sweeps the nation.And it changes the world.
大規模生產橫掃美國，也改變了世界
To be anassembly-line worker,you did not have to have a high degree of skill,
作為一名流水線工人，不需要高水平的技術
you didn't have to be a card-carrying machinist or whatever it might be.
不必成為職業機械師或別的什么
All you had to do was to learn how to turn the same wrench on the same nut 5,000 times a day and that was your job.
你所要做的就是拿著同一個扳手，在同樣的螺母上每天擰5000下，那就是你的工作
Prices plummet.In 1913, a Model T cost two years' wages.
汽車價格急跌，1913年一輛T型車要花兩年的收入
By 1924, it's just three months.
到1924年，只要三個月的收入
The Model T, without question,is one of the single objects in the history of America that changed America.
無可置疑T型車是美國歷史上改變這個國家的事物之一
What Henry Ford developed was the car for the common man.
亨利·福特使普通人擁有汽車成為可能
The impact of this little car is massive.
車雖小影響卻極大
300,000 sold in 1913.
1913年一年就賣出了30萬輛
By 1924,there's a new Model T every 24 seconds.
到1924年，每24秒就有一輛新的T型車賣出
Suddenly, this form of transportation,which was entirely new,was something that people could actually engage in.
一時間，這種全新的交通工具，參與到人們的生活中
They could afford it.It wasn't like a spaceship,where there are only several of them,and they're millions and millions of dollars.
大眾擔負得起，不像太空飛船那樣數量稀少，價格高昂
Washington State, 1915.
華盛頓州，1915年
The Model T's success is creating a nation of student drivers.\
型車的成功掀起了全國的學車熱潮
Roscoe Sheller used to be a dairy farmer.
羅斯科·謝勒曾經是個奶農
He's about to start a new job...car salesman.
他將要從事一項新的工作，汽車銷售員
The pay is fantastic.
報酬很吸引人
The only problem is... he can't drive.
唯一的問題是他不會開車
You're not riding a horse, just take it easy.
你不是在騎馬，放輕松
His boss offers to teach him the morning of his first day at work.
他的老板，在他第一天上班的早上就教他開車
It's not long before Roscoe has his first customers.
不久之后羅斯科就有了第一位客戶
Luckily, there's a manual called "How to Drive an Automobile.",
幸好有一本手冊叫做《如何開車》
