The rise of the automobile industry matches the progress of the

contemporary capitalism. Despite originating in France and Germany, it

took flight in the United States. There Henry Ford modified the moving
manufacturing line from the Chicago meat industry to automobile
manufacturing, henceforth creating mass production. During the 1920s,
with the help of Alfred Sloan’s management theories, General Motors
dominated the world’s car companies. After the Second World War, the
manufacturers began focusing on the design of their products to champion
and encourage more frequent model changes, than attaining a similar
model for great lengths of time. From the 1970s, the industry was criticized
due to most vehicles behaving inefficiently which consumed petrol rather
wastefully. At the same time, increasingly militant trade unions came to the
defense of their members’ jobs. Today some of the most renowned brands
in the world are owned by this industry. However, due to increased
competition and saturated markets, car manufacturers are threatened.

As a result of the countless storms and accidents to have occurred during

thousands of years of sea-borne trading, over three million shipwrecks are
believed to be resting on the seabed below. The wreckages in question
provide marine archaeologists valuable information and data about the
culture, technology and business design of the early civilizations. However,
the greater population of wreckages rest too deep to investigate efficiently.
Since scuba divers can only work till a depth of 50 meters, they are
restricted to conduct operations to wrecks only near the coast --the
conditions of which have deteriorated over time by storms or plant growth.
A handful of deep sea sites, such as the Titanic, have been examined by
manned submarines, but this caliber of machinery has been too expensive
for minor cases. Fortunately, this situation has been altered by the
introduction of a mini submarine with a new design known as the automatic
underwater vehicle (AUV). This inexpensive, tiny machine moves freely
and does not require a costly mother-ship to run it. A team of American
archaeologists are now preparing to involve an AUV for an expedition of a
portion of sea north of Egypt which used to be the direction to a vast
trading port 40 centuries ago.