Ford Assembly Line Starts: The Model T Gets Mass-Produced
Engineers rigged a rope-and-winch system to ferry a new Ford Model T past 140 workers at Detroit's Crystal Palace factory, slashing assembly time from 12.5 hours to just 93 minutes. This radical shift in manufacturing slashed production costs and turned the automobile from a luxury into a mass-market necessity within months. Other industries soon copied the method, standardizing everything from cereal to caskets while delivering higher quality and reliability at lower prices.
October 7, 1913
113 years ago
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