historical background of "HONDA"?
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IT STARTED WITH A DREAM...\n\nPioneers and mavericks. America loves them. Our folk history thrives on individuals who followed their own vision, who marched to their own drummer, who did it their way. The classic rags-to-riches success story. The American Dream.\n\nSoichiro Honda's saga qualifies for the rags-to-riches hall of fame. He had a dream and by literally building dreams, created the world's most successful motorcycling manufacturing venture. His story and the chapter assigned his largest distributor, American Honda, trigger memories of times when the American Dream contained more far-sighted substance and less short-term sizzle.\n\nHonda Motor Company, Ltd. in Japan and American Honda Motor Company, Inc. have succeeded at blending eastern and western attitudes and behavior to build a unique success story that began 40 years ago in Japan and 11 years later in the United States.\n\nHonda was already the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer when it tackled the American market in 1959. Within five years, American Honda became the largest motorcycle distributor in the world.\n\nSoichiro Honda's success parallels the classic rags-to-riches fable - the lone individual starting in a humble setting, battling odds and succeeding, through talent, ingenuity, and good fortune. In a nation noted for reserve, Mr. Honda was and is often direct, frequently exuberant, sometimes hilarious, and always confident. He preferred getting his hands greasy in the shop to shuffling papers in the office. He chose learning on the job to academic paper chases. Yet when he found his technical knowledge deficient, he didn't hesitate to enroll in a technical high school - at age 29. The year was 1935. The motivation: learn why he was having problems manufacturing piston rings.\n\nBefore his venture into piston rings, Honda was employed as a technician. Automobiles, rather than motorcycles, were his first love. He dreamed of racing. After completing eight years of schooling he joined an auto repair shop at age 15. Two years later, he became a Harley owner and then an Indian rider.\n\nHe opened his own auto and motorcycle repair shop in 1928 while pursuing his hobby, building racing cars. That same year he applied for his first patent, for casting automobile wheel spokes. He organized Tokai Seiki Company, Ltd. to experiment with manufacturing piston rings. After initial failures, he sought further education which enabled him to successfully produce piston rings for automobiles, motorcycles and airplanes.\n\nIn 1945, Honda sold his stock to Toyota and took a year off. His sabbatical included music-making and merriment. Refreshed, he launched Honda Technical Research Laboratory in October of 1946. His new venture added war surplus Tohatsu and Mikuni generator motors to bicycles to provide basic transportation for the war-torn nation. \n\nRecognizing the diminishing supply of surplus motors, Honda formed Honda Motor Company, Ltd. in Hamamatsu in 1948. The company's first headquarters was a 12 x 18 foot shed that housed 13 employees.\n\nThe "A" model motorized bicycle and the "B" model motorized tricycle bore the first Honda logos. The "C" model, Honda's first real motorcycle, soon became a performance and sales leader.\n\nTakeo Fujisawa, referred to as a co-founder of the Honda empire, joined the company in 1949 as managing director. That same year saw the 100cc " D" model, the first chain-drive Honda. Its telescopic fork and two-speed transmission were both innovations rarely seen at the time.\n\nHonda Motor Company initiated its climb to the forefront of four-stroke technology with the 150cc "E" model Dream which appeared in 1951. Sales success allowed Honda to focus vigorously on two key ingredients: quality and design.\n\nSales continued to boom, but the end of Korean War in 1953 triggered an economic depression in Japan that almost ruined Honda. The company survived, bol
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The history of Japanese Americans begins in the late nineteenth century when the first Japanese and Okinawan immigrants unload in Honolulu Harbor as indentured laborers of the many sugarcane and pineapple plantations. This event leads to several phases of Japanese American history: anti-alien period of the west coast in the early twentieth century, internment period during World War II, and finally political empowerment period of the late 1960s leading into the present day. Here are some key events for Japanese Americans:\n\n1869, A group of Japanese people arrive at Gold Hills, California and build the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony and Okei becomes the first recorded Japanese woman to die and be buried in the US. \n1890, First wave of Japanese immigrants to provide labor in Hawai'i sugarcane and pineapple plantations, California fruit and produce farms \n1900s, Japanese begin to lease land and sharecrop \n1902, Yone Noguchi publishes the The American Diary of a Japanese Girl, the first Japanese-American novel \n1907, Gentlemen's Agreement between United States and Japan that Japan would stop issuing passports for new laborers \n1908, Japanese picture brides enter the United States \n1913, California Alien Land Law of 1913 ban Japanese from purchasing land; whites threatened by Japanese success in independent farming ventures \n1924, United States Immigration Act of 1924 banned immigration from Japan \n1930s, Issei become economically stable for the first time in California and Hawai'i \n1941, Japanese attack Honolulu; federal government arrest Japanese community leaders \n1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 on February 19 uprooting Japanese Americans, except in Hawai'i, to be sent to concentration camps (euphemized by the government as "internment camps") \n1943, Japanese American soldiers from Hawai'i forming the 100th U.S. Army Battalion arrive in Europe \n1944, U.S. Army 100th Batallion merges with the all-volunteer Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team \n1945, 442nd Regimental Combat team awarded 18,143 Medal of Valor decorations and 9,486 Purple Heart decorations becoming the highest decorated military unit in United States history \n1959, Daniel K. Inouye becomes the first Japanese American in Congress \n1965, Patsy T. Mink becomes the first woman of color in Congress \n1971, Norman Y. Mineta elected mayor of San Jose, California; becomes first Asian American mayor of a major US city \n1974, George R. Ariyoshi becomes the first Japanese American state governor \n1978, Ellison S. Onizuka becomes the first Asian American astronaut \n1980, Congress creates Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate World War II policies over Japanese Americans \n1983, Commission reports Japanese American internment was not a national security necessity \n1988, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988 apologizing for Japanese American internment and provide reparations of $20,000 to each victim \n1994, Mazie K. Hirono becomes the first Japanese immigrant elected state lieutenant governor \n1999, Gen. Eric Shinseki becomes the first Asian American U.S. military chief of staff \n2000, Norman Y. Mineta becomes the first Asian American appointed to the U.S. Cabinet; worked as Commerce Secretary (2000-2001), Transportation Secretary (2001-present) \n[edit]\nImmigration\nPeople from Japan began migrating to the U.S. in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration. Particularly after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese immigrants were sought by industrialists to replace the Chinese immigrants. In 1907, the "Gentlemen's Agreement" between the governments of Japan and the U.S. ended immigration of Japanese workers (i.e., men), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the U.S. The Immigration Act of 1
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_history.html
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Honda's Culture and Philosophy at a Glance\nCompany Principle\nMaintaining a global viewpoint, we are dedicated to supplying products of the highest quality yet at a reasonable price for worldwide customer satisfaction.\nFundamental Beliefs:\nRespect for the Individual \nThe Three Joys\nThe Joy of Buying \nThe Joy of Selling \nThe Joy of Creating\n\nManagement Policy:\nProceed always with ambition and youthfulness. \nRespect sound theory, develop fresh ideas and make the most\neffective use of time. \nEnjoy your work and always encourage open communications. \nStrive constantly for a harmonious flow of work. \nBe ever mindful of the value of research and endeavor.\n\nManufacturing:\nJust as Honda's approach to people was different in 1979, our approach to manufacturing also was new to America.\nFrom the beginning, our focus has always been on efficiency, continuous improvement, teamwork and exceeding the expectations of our customers for quality and value.\nIn America, Honda introduced just-in-time parts delivery and rolling-model changes, which allows production of the old model right up until production of the new model begins.\nThis approach continues to put customers first. The truth is, our customers don't just drive Hondas - they drive Honda with their expectations.\nAnother Honda difference is our flexibility. Honda plants have always been able to build more than one model on the same line, but we recently implemented an even more flexible manufacturing system that increases the speed and efficiency when introducing new models.\nHonda's New Manufacturing System does this by standardizing production capabilities among its plants worldwide. This makes the shift within a plant to new model production less complex and more cost efficient.\nHonda has continued to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into its Ohio manufacturing facilities. Such investments include:\nnew welding systems and significant investments in assembly areas for the flexible New Manufacturing System in the Marysville and East Liberty Auto Plants; \na flexible new engine line at the Anna Engine Plant; \nthe startup of engine production at the Marysville Motorcycle Plant; \nthe expansion of transmission manufacturing\nHonda's investment continues today. A new $123-million paint facility is under construction at the Marysville Auto Plant - the biggest single investment yet to update Honda's two Ohio auto plants. When finished in 2006, it will use a new paint system that significantly reduces emissions and energy usage.\nHonda of America operates four manufacturing plants in Ohio. The Marysville Motorcycle Plant, the Marysville Auto Plant, the Anna Engine Plant and the East Liberty Auto Plant. In addition, Honda Transmission Mfg. has been established to provide automatic transmissions for Honda's automotive manufacturing in North America.
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I FOUND IT!\n\nHere: http://www.eldritchpress.org/jwj/auto.htm
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Check the Motor Sports Hall of Fame website
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Just about all vehicles will have a Technical manual available from the factory.  Try Honda's website. A word of caution; If you you are still under any warranties DIY work will void them.
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Honda -\nThe Asimo robot is a proprietary and intellectual property.\nTherefore no one outside of the Honda research facility would have access right to it.\nLooking at the Asimo itself it would be pretty hard to gain any true CAD files from it so your out of luck there.\nIf you’re looking for CAD models of robot parts you can contact universities doing robotics research.
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Here is a page that not only tells you something about a brocken specter, but also shows a good picture of one.\n\nhttp://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=184384
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Yes go to! very good topics to discover about engines http://www.sapiensman.com/topics/topics_3.htm
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any honda civic since '91.  the car is a champ and if u decide to go into the import scene, it would be easy to do so (especially for hatchbacks).
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1839\n\nhttp://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1476.htm
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From Cadillac Owners dot Com\n\nHow Cadillac Became Cadillac\nI promised a little history so here it is. I guess to start properly, I’ll have to go back to 1701 in what was known as “French North America.” A small party of men made their way upstream from Lake Erie. They stepped ashore on the west bank downstream from Lake Saint Clair. The officer commanding the detachment was a tall, handsome figure in thighboots, dark blue frock coat and red sash, white lace jabot and cuffs—his blue cocked hat and sword at his side, symbols of leadership and authority from a noble family. It was decided to build a stockade and establish a trading post and a permanent settlement where they were. It was to be called Ville d’Etroit. The name of the man who just established the site of what was to ultimately be called Detroit was Le Sieur Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. \nFast forward to February 16, 1843 near Barton, Vermont, when Zilpha, the wife of a farmer named Leander B. Leland, presented her husband with their sixth son. He was named Henry Martyn Leland. His Quaker parents taught him Christian ethics and a set of moral standards to guide him throughout life with an emphasis on practical Christianity—square dealing, kindness, and assistance to others. He also received patient instruction in everyday duties on the farm—the necessity for doing every job properly, no matter how small. Henry went to work at the age of 11 and began showing his aptitude for improving methods. He developed a way to peg soles that enabled him, as a schoolboy, to earn money comparable to adult pay levels. He later went to work at Colt (who had produced the first successful revolver) as a mechanic and made precision his passion. Then he went to work for another company called Brown and Sharpe, prosperous manufacturers of precision machinery where he enhanced his precision standards. They produced the first practical quantity produced hand micrometers with compensation for wear and accurate to one-thousandth of an inch in measurement. They advertised their tools as “The World’s Standard of Accuracy.”\nLeland later began to think seriously about his own business and was attracted to the city of Detroit where he had a friend with a business selling machine tools. He met a wealthy man named Robert C. Faulconer and convinced him the city had a need for machine shops and they created the firm of Leland, Faulconer, and Norton in Detroit in 1890. Their main work was gear grinding and the design and building of special tools. Their business was booming with an emphasis on gear making. The bicycle boom swept the country at this time and Leland was asked to design and develop trouble free gears. The gears were accurate to a half thousandth of an inch and fully interchangeable. The company then went into motive power, both steam and internal combustion which was shortly to prove invaluable.\nDown the road in Lansing, Michigan, Ransom Eli Olds founded the Olds Gasoline Engine Works. While he and his father built gasoline engines for farm use, early Olds vehicles were steam powered. By this time, the gasoline vehicle idea was making headway, following the pioneering work of Daimler and Benz in Germany in the mid 1880’s. Back in America, Olds joined a group of American inventors in the early nineties and completed one of the pioneer gasoline automobiles in Michigan. In 1897, the Olds Motor Vehicle Company was established. They had a big problem with the gears in their transmissions trying to make them mesh not to mention the fact that they were intolerably noisy. Olds went to Leland and Faulconer (now called L and F), to make a quiet running transmission where the gears were precision ground and interchangeable from car to car without any hand fitting. In 1901, L and F was given a contract to make two thousand engines for Olds. There were 2 other brothers named Dodge that also supplied engines for Olds. The Dodge engine produced about 3.0 horsepower while the L
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Henry Ford and his Model T for a semi-modern one.\n\nBack in 1335, Guido da Vigevano made a wind-powered car.  There were plenty of others along the way that ran on different things.  Check the site below for more details: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm
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I saw ones a guy and a girl were sitting in 2006 Honda. Suddenly it seemed that girl was giving that guy a b.j. But when camera angle changes, it showed that girl was sucking gear-stick of that car instead. It cracked me up.
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it would have to be chinese lettering....otherwise honda is honda no matter how you look at it  本田  I believe this is the correct chinese lettering for the phrase you were talking about,   I just can't find out how to say ford or chevy....but who care, right?
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Check their website... it should be under the history section.