SAT写作经典例子之亨利·福特_SAT写作

SAT写作经典例子之亨利·福特

　　Preserving Americana

　　Ford had an interest in Americana. In the 1920s, Ford began work to turn Sudbury, Massachusetts, into a themed historical village. He moved the schoolhouse supposedly referred to in the nursery rhyme, Mary had a little lamb, from Sterling, Massachusetts, and purchased the historic Wayside Inn. This plan never saw fruition. Ford repeated the concept of collecting historic structures with the creation of Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It may have inspired the creation of Old Sturbridge Village as well. About the same time, he began collecting materials for his museum, which had a theme of practical technology. It was opened in 1929 as the Edison Institute. Although greatly modernized, the museum continues today.

　　On the idea that he invented the automobile

　　Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, as is occasionally believed. Indeed, he began as a race driver of other peoples cars. As Ford himself noted, by the 1870s, the notion of a horseless carriage was a common idea. Many people worked toward the idea, as the history of steam road vehicles and of automobilesshows. Ford was, however, more influential than any other single person in changing the paradigm of the automobile from a very expensive, heavy, hand-built toy for rich people into a lightweight, reliable, affordable, mass-produced mode of transportation for working-class people.