The video I’m going to show you today is the second part of my discussion of the assembly line, a system that was introduced more than a hundred years ago, and has now become an absolute standard across manufacturing industries all over the world.
If you have not seen Part A, you can watch it by clicking here 👉[ Ссылка ]

At the end of the last video I referred to how Ford introduced the assembly line with the Model T. This is what I had always believed. Whatever I had read told me it was the Model T that was the first to use the assembly line. But then I came across this book.

In his book, My Forty Years with Ford, Charles E Sorensen, who worked with Ford Motor for four decades as patternmaker, foundry engineer, mechanical engineer, industrial engineer, production manager, and executive in charge of all production, and eventually as vice president and a director, sheds some light on the matter.
He says: ‘the final assembly line originated in our Highland Park plant in the summer of 1913. It was born then, but it was conceived in July of 1908 at the Piquette Avenue plant and not with Model T but during the last months of Model N production.’
That was really news to me! I had read everywhere that the assembly line was first tried out on the Model T. Now I read it was the Model N.
But then there is so much written about the Model T that I imagine once the Model N did the proof of concept test, the Model T began to be made on the assembly line.
Sorensen has stuff to say about the assembly line. ‘Interchangeable parts were not new in 1913,’ he wrote. ‘Johann Gutenberg, the first printer in the Western World to use moveable type, employed that principle five hundred years ago. Eli Whitney used interchangeable parts when making rifles in the early days of the Republic; and in early days of this century Henry Leland, who later sold out to Ford, applied the same principle in the first Cadillac cars.’

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