The Age of Progress

In 1901, Eli Olds, maker of the first commercially successful American car, the Oldsmobile, fist used a primitive assembly line technique for production of his cars (Inventors). Henry Ford took up the idea and used the first conveyor belt-based assembly line in his factory in 1913-1914. This type of automobile production greatly reduced the amount of time taken to put each car together from its parts (39 minutes for a Model T), which also reduced production costs.

Soon after the automobile came along, in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright's first experimental flying machine stayed aloft for a full 12 seconds, heralding the beginning of the age of flying (History). With these inventions, all the physical barriers to long distance communication between different groups of human beings scattered all over the earth came down. Once flying machines were perfected there were no barriers due to mountains, oceans, deserts. The north polar region became a crossroads for pilots navigating the globe and seeking the shortest routes between countries i