Why did car, airplane, and train technology progress much faster

>>1602356
This could actually turn into an interesting thread. I have no idea though.
Previous investments in industrial structures paying off perhaps? Or the eternal Keynes becoming efective?

>>1602356
WW1 and fordism

General aviation at least in the United States didn't make any significant advances that weren't already in development. My best guess the progress in aviation was just due to general interest at the time and the stories told of aces in WW1 especially in such a sad decade for the world.

>>1602356
Not in a place to answer this effectively, but basically, a lot of things starting 'clicking' together at the same time.

We had a much better picture in the 1930s of what a car and a plane ARE compared to the 20s.

>>1602356
I heard it's because Ford re-invented how cars were made. Mass production and assembly lines.

>>1602433
That happened in like 1913

>>1602433
I am not shure of what you mean, but if you mean muh assembly line im just gonna say
>Stop this meme.
>Now.
Ford´s merit is one of production cost reduction and marketing. The reduction of costs what not archieved threw the assembly line. Even in the automotive sector oldsmobile beat him to it by about a decade. Ford managed to radically simplify the concept of a car, as a vehicle stripped of all unnecesary luxury. Comparing a Model T with a contemporary Mercedes is like comparing a Polaroid Camera with a Leica. Ford´s genious was to realize that you can make more money selling Polaroids than Leicas.

20's was a poor people depression. 30's was a rich people depression.

You know what rich people do when they are depressed? Work and buy shit, poor people just starve to death.

The Nazis advanced every type of technology in the world, we can thank them for everything

>>1602738
>aeronautics: Me 262 was notably inferior to the Gloster Meteor, inferior jet engine designs, Americans beat them to flying wings
>electronics: vastly inferior to US/UK tech industry
>optics: inferior to Soviet made optics according to 1943 American comparisons
>rocketry: based entirely on research by American scientist Robert Goddard
>physics: dismissed as "jew science", fundamental misunderstandings of nuclear physics
>human experimentation: largely useless due to test samples being half-dead death camp prisoners, and moronic experiments like "let's stab a twin and see what happens to their sibling"

>>1602546
t keynes

>>1602356
Depression encourages spending since unemployment drives labor costs down.

>>1602825
>optics: inferior to Soviet made optics according to 1943 American comparisons
Even Sovietboos admit that optics were the one thing the Germans got right.

>>1602738

t. historical revionist stormfag

>>1602433
The firearms industry did mass production and assembly lines decades before Ford.

>>1602922
Cite your sources.

http://tankarchives.blogspot.com/2013/04/aberdeen-t-34-and-kv-1-test.html
>Consensus: the gun sights are the best in the world. Incomparable to any currently known worldwide or currently developed in America.

>>1602418
This.

Read Internal Combustion by Edwin Black for the story.

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>>1602356
A lot of it was being built off of developments made in the 1920s. Pretty much all of Cord's shit started in the 20s, especially the Duesenberg stuff.

>vacuum operated intermittent windshield wipers
>in-dash radio
>engine was a 420 cubic inch straight 8 with 32 valves and dual overhead camshafts
>put out 265 horsespower stock
>320 with the optional supercharger
>0-60 time of 8 seconds, top speed of 130 mph
>in a car that was 20 feet long and weighed two and a half tons
>in 1928

For comparison, the Ford Model A had an engine that only put out 40 horsepower and could only get up to 65 mph. The Model SJ was literally twice as fast and EIGHT TIMES as powerful as the average family car of the time.

The Duesenberg Brothers were absolute madmen.

>>1602825
>>1602954
>>>/reddit/

>>1602356
Its same with phones from 2000s to 2010s

There are no depressions, just economic slumps. Two steps forward, one step backwards all the way.

>>1602356
The real answer is cars and airplanes literally are new tech even for the 20s. By the 30s, it just seems to speed up because everyone got the basics and are now trying new shit. It's like asking why the development of computing technology is faster now in the 90s & 2000s than it was in prior years.

Trains though, I dont get where you asspulled that one. Trains have constantly been changing and being better. Just like their counterparts: Ships

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>>1605800
>Its same with phones from 2000s to 2010s

Smart phones were there already in 90's, just not as mass market ones everyone can afford and probably even more importantly those weren't marketed to everyone, so everyone did not even know to want one.

>>1602825
>aeronautics: Me 262 was notably inferior to the Gloster Meteor, inferior jet engine designs

The reason why German jet engines sucked in comparison to British ones was purely about materials they could get their hands on. I'm pretty sure axial compressors like germans used are way more common these days in aircraft engines than centrifugal ones Bongoloids used in their jet engines.

>optics: inferior to Soviet made optics according to 1943 American comparisons

kek.

>rocketry: based entirely on research by American scientist Robert Goddard

Goddard operated with shoestring budget and was nowhere even close to dropping half ton warheads few hundred kilometers away. Neither were Soviets, despite them prototyping concepts way more advanced than Goddard, like using fuel as coolant and hypergolic propellants.

>>1604066
>For comparison, the Ford Model A had an engine that only put out 40 horsepower and could only get up to 65 mph. The Model SJ was literally twice as fast and EIGHT TIMES as powerful as the average family car of the time.

I'm pretty sure Bugatti Veyron is probably more than twice as fast as your car and eight times more powerful.

>>1602356
It didn't.

>>1602738
>The Nazis advanced every type of technology in the world,

No.... the Germans did. Despite the rise of Nazism, not because of it.

>>1605923
Yes, but that's with 80 years of advancement and computer-aided design. The Duesenbergs were doing this shit in the 1920s, using technological advancements that were decades ahead of their time.

>>1606198
>Yes, but that's with 80 years of advancement and computer-aided design. The Duesenbergs were doing this shit in the 1920s, using technological advancements that were decades ahead of their time.

Duesenbergs were the Bugatti Veyron of their day, best tech for cars, no holds barred.

Ridiculously expensive and shieeeeeet.

Veyron doesn't exist as project that is meant to be profitable. It's halfway a marketing ploy by Volkswagen (this is what we can do) and halfway recreational bonus project for their engineers (fuel injection on that 1.2l egine was brilliant, do you want to build 1001hp engine as next project?).

You should compare Duesenberg as much to A-model Ford as you should compare Ferrari to average car. It wasn't average car of it's day, it was supercar of it's day. Even if term supercar is from 70's or so.

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>>1606274
I know they were the supercars of their day. They cost like 60 times the cost of a normal family car, and Cord operated the division at a loss just so they could say "look at the shit we make".

But even with that in mind, they were still absolutely crazy for the time. Their engines were putting out more horsepower than any other car in the world; their closest rival in America only put out 165 and that was the Cadillac V-16. The biggest competitor in Europe was the Mercedes Benz 770, and it came up well short of even the Model J's capabilities. They were so far ahead of every other supercar, it's like if the Bugatti Veyron was competing in the 1980s against the Ferrari Testarossa and the Lamborghini Countach.

>>1602356

Depression meant that the little that worked worked hard, while during prosperity people hardly worked.