On January 14, 1914, Henry Ford announced the introduction of a new method of assembling cars – on a continuously moving assembly line.
Thanks to the innovation, the assembly time for one car was reduced from 10 hours to 93 minutes.
It is generally accepted that the American engineer-inventor Henry Ford was the first to create an industrial conveyor belt, but that is not the case. He pioneered the use of the conveyor belt in his factory, and the first in-line assembly of automobiles appeared as early as 1901 at Oldsmobile.
Details and components of the future machine on special carts were transported from one worker to another. The owner of the company, Ransom Oldsom, must be considered the inventor of the conveyor belt, but few people remember him.
Henry Ford’s credit is that he appreciated this invention and skillfully applied it. Three years later, the conveyor belt at his Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit stretched 1,000 feet, and workers sequentially mounted the corresponding parts on cars.
In addition, Henry Ford was the first to come up with the idea of producing spare parts for his cars – no one had offered this before.
The Ford Motor Company founded by him is thriving and many people still associate the production of assembly line cars with his name.
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