For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park,
Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously
moving assembly line when the chassis, the automobile’s
frame is assembled using the revolutionary industrial
technique.
A motor and rope pulled the chassis past workers and
parts on the factory floor, cutting the man-hours required
to complete one “Model T.”
Within a year, further assembly line improvements reduced
productivity effected by Ford’s use of the moving assembly
line allowed him to drastically reduce the cost of the Model T.
