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A century ago, Ford’s assembly line changed society

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A century ago, Ford’s assembly line changed society (via AFP)

It began on October 7, 1913 when engineers constructed a crude system using a rope and winch to pull a Ford Model T past 140 workers in a sprawling new factory dubbed the Crystal Palace. Henry Ford launched the modern assembly line in a suburb of Detroit…



 

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