The Lowell Observatory is planning several days of activities in Madras and Bend, Oregon, including speakers and star parties and an eclipse viewing event at Madras High School with vendors, food, astronomers, solar experiments, solar telescopes, educational displays, and kids activities. Aug 20-22.
The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular for the mass market. The first production Model T was produced on August 12, 1908 and left the factory on September 27, 1908, at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.he production model immediately before the Model T was the Model S, an upgraded version of the company's largest success to that point, the Model N. The follow-up was the Ford Model A (rather than any Model U).
Henry Ford was an innovative businessman who, like many company owners, saw a need and wanted to fill that need.   The Ford motor company grew out of Ford's own inventivene â¦ ss.In 1896, Ford invented the Quadricycle, the first horseless carriage that he produced. Its popularity helped fund and launch Ford's business, and the new Ford Motor Company was founded 7 years later, on 16 June 1903. The Ford motor company grew out of Ford's own inventivene â¦ ss. In 1896, Ford invented the Quadricycle, the first horseless carriage that he produced.