Ford Launches Assembly Line

<p><strong>APRIL 20: Ford Launches Assembly Line</strong></p><p><em>Profile America </em>— Wednesday, April 20th. The American automobile industry began to&nbsp;crank up this month in 1913 — as Henry Ford set up the first moving assembly line in&nbsp;Highland Park, Michigan. Before the assembly line, workers spent over 12 hours&nbsp;building a single Model T. Afterward, it took only 93 minutes. Ultimately, a new car came&nbsp;off the assembly line every 24 seconds, and 15 million were built over the years of&nbsp;production. Prices dropped too. In 1909, a basic Model T roadster cost $825 — by&nbsp;1925, it was down to $260. Now, American automakers — Ford still among them, of&nbsp;course — manufacture close to $105 billion worth of vehicles annually. Production&nbsp;peaked in 2016 at over 12-million passenger and commercial vehicles. You can find&nbsp;more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <a href="https://www.census.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.census.gov.</a></p><br/><h2>Sources:</h2><p><a href="http://www.caranddriver.com/features/fords-assembly-line-turns-100-how-it-really-put-the-world-on-wheels-feature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Assembly line, accessed 8/30/2021</a></p><p><a href="https://www.willamette.edu/~fthompso/MgmtCon/Henry_Ford.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Speed of production, accessed 8/30/2021</a></p><p><a href="http://www.enginelabs.com/engine-tech/engine/historic-engines-the-ford-model-t/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Model T prices, accessed 8/30/2021</a></p><p><a href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=336111&amp;tid=ASMAREA2017.AM1831BASIC01" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S. auto sales value, Annual Survey of Manufacturers, NAICS 336111</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bts.gov/content/annual-us-motor-vehicle-production-and-factory-wholesale-sales-thousands-units" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Production data, accessed 8/30/2021</a></p>