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September 7, 2015

The word automation entered the language only recently. It was first uttered in 1946,

when engineers at the Ford Motor Company needed a new term to describe the latest machinery being installed on the company’s assembly lines. “Give us some more of that automatic business,” a Ford vice president reportedly said in a meeting. “Some more of that — that — ‘automation.’” Dawn of the automatic age | ROUGH TYPE

Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 7, 2015 8:21 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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