On October 7, 1913, the moving assembly line was born at the factory of the Ford Motor Company in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park. Henry Ford's invention allowed workers to build a Model T ...

Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line, ... at Ford’s Highland Park, Mich., ... factory managers broke a Model T’s 3,000 parts into 84 distinct steps that were timed for consistency.

In 1907, Henry Ford bought 160 acres of land for what would be his Highland Park Ford Plant. The first moving assembly line started a few years later at the plant. Immigrants and other workers ...

A century ago — on Oct. 7, 1913 — an innovation at Ford Motor Co.’s facility in Highland Park, Mich., not only revolutionized the car-building process but helped change the landscape of the ...

According to the United States Census Bureau, it was 104 years ago today – on April 13, 1913 – that the Ford Motor Company set up the first moving assembly line at its old plant in Highland ...

This was the first moving assembly line ever, utilizing conveyor belts inspired by Chicago meatpacking plants. After much trial and error, the Highland Park, Michigan assembly plant opened in 1913.

Ford Motor Company marks the 100th anniversary of the assembly line. The Model T went into production in 1909, and by October 1913, the assembly line of today was born.

In 1910, Ford opened a large plant in Highland Park that started the process. The 60-acre factory focused on speeding up production by accelerating the movement of parts.

A white Ford Ranger that rolled off the assembly line on Dec. 16, 2011, was the last car produced at the 86-year-old factory. Demolition of the plant wrapped up in 2015 and the site is now ...

The Ford Assembly Line. Clip: Season 25 Episode 2 | 2m 59s. Inspired by the moving lines used at meat-packing plants, Ford’s factory tested an assembly line in the flywheel magneto department.

In 1913, Henry Ford invented the moving assembly line and changed the automotive industry forever. A century later, many of those factory jobs have been taken over by increasingly sophisticated ...

Ford is one of the oldest automobile manufacturers in the United States, and some of their models have been selling continuously for decades.