Industrial Revolution: The Assembly Line

The Assembly Line The most revolutionary invention of the industrial revolution was the assembly line. It not only speed up the process of manufacturing goods it speeds up the speed that people received those goods. The assembly line dates back to the industrial revolution when Eli Whitney used the interchangeable parts to make his firearms production and the ability to change out different or broken parts with ease. They used the same parts that we the exactly the same parts so the speed increased also the amount of errors decreased and so did the cost of manufacturing the same parts. “The idea of the assembly line has many parents” ("Assembly Line." Dictionary of American History. 2003, 2016) The assembly line made the speed that the production

This was done in the 12th century by the Venetian Arsenal. Then later Eli Whitney, an English inventor, had brought over this idea to the United States from the French gunsmith Honoré LeBlanc. Honoré LeBlanc standardized gun parts so that it is easier to make and to repair the broken parts. He standardized the parts for guns and that speed up the producing rates and were able to drop coast because they manufactured the same parts. Ransom Olds also revolutionized the assembly line by making the car that is exactly identical to the last one because they used the same exact parts. Henry Ford came along in 1903 with ideas for his assembly line. He had drawn ideas from a meat house that had meat hanging from the ceiling that moved around the rooms to workers. Henry Ford used both ideas to help his version of the assembly line. He used the same parts and put the cars on a track and attached them to a motor which pulls them to station to

“In 1913, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile” (Ford’s assembly line starts rolling, 2016). Henry Ford didn’t come up with the idea, but he did make it better. With his new product “the Model T” was one of the cheapest and the average person could buy it because of the way that he made it. Henry Ford had a new conveyor system. Chassis of the vehicle was towed by a rope and then the workers were around the big line and they all had a specific job to do. The chassis are pulled by a motor that goes from station to station. There were 84 different stations along the line. He was able to “reduce the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes.” (Ford’s assembly line starts rolling,