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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 328
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
In addition to its strictly pulling functions, the tractor, to be of the greatest service, had also to be designed for work as a stationary engine so that when it was not out on the road or in the fields it might be hitched up with a belt to run machinery. In short, it had to be a compact, versatile power plant. And that it has been. It has not only ploughed, harrowed, cultivated, and reaped, but it has also threshed, run grist mills, saw mills, and various other sorts of mills, pulled stumps, ploughed snow, and done about everything that a plant of moderate power could do from sheep-shearing to printing a newspaper. It has been fitted with heavy tires to haul on roads, with sledge runners for the woods and ice, and with rimmed wheels to run on rails. When the shops in Detroit were shut down by coal shortage, we got out the _Dearborn Independent_ by sending a tractor to the electro-typing factory--stationing the tractor in the alley, sending up a belt four stories, and making the plates by tractor power. Its use in ninety-five distinct lines of service has been called to our attention, and probably we know only a fraction of the uses.
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定位：Additional excerpt 328 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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拖拉机不仅要能牵引，还要能当固定发动机用：不在路上或田里时，可以用皮带连接带动机械。总之，它得是一个紧凑、多功能的动力装置。福特拖拉机确实如此：它犁地、耙地、中耕、收割，还能脱粒、磨面、锯木、拉树桩、扫雪，几乎能做中等功率设备能做的一切，从剪羊毛到印报纸。它还能换装轮胎、雪橇、轨道轮适应不同路面。底特律工厂因缺煤停工時，福特用拖拉机发电印出了报纸。这说明多功能设计能极大扩展产品的使用场景和寿命。
上下文
福特在自传中描述拖拉机如何被设计成多功能动力装置，并列举了它在多种场景下的实际用途。
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你的产品是否只被用于一个场景？能否通过设计或配件扩展出更多用途？
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