Technology boomed during the 1920s, many new things were invented to make products cheaper and faster, one of these new inventions included the ford assembly line which was new way of moving the products to each new set in the creation process instead of the people moving. Some other inventions included radios, photography, silent movies, and some science and medicine which involved the creation of vitamins. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald has shows the booming of the economy before the Great Depression by showing cars, including custom made cars like the ones that Gatsby had, the cars that Tom had and the cars George had that belonged to Tom at one point. In the novel Gatsby and Daisy had gotten their pictures taken, which showed another invention that was fairly new at this time.
This picture is of Gatsby and his car, although the car wasn't brand new at this time the assembly process was, making cars cheaper and more of them were able to be made.