The Automobile Assembly Line

Henry Ford created the first car and wanted a way for people to produce the car that he invented, only eight times faster. The assembly line was a line of workers who each put a piece onto an unfinished car as they passed on a moving belt.With this line, a complete Model T Ford could be made in less than two hours. He reduced the time it took to make a car from 12.5 hours to 1.5 worker-hours. When the car first came out is cost $850, when the cost of production fell so did the price. Eventually it fell to $300 where it could be purchased by the middle class. This changed the world because other factories adopted this idea, allowing them to produce a lot more and to set their prices lower. By 1914, over 600,000 cars were sold, and they are still being sold today.