In 1913 Henry Ford, the inventor of the automobile, established the first assembly line for the mass production of automobiles. This new invented process would reduce the time it took to create an entire automobile from the original time of twelve hours to two hours and thirty minutes. Henry Ford’s model T. was introduced to society in 1908, it was a simple, sturdy, and inexpensive product. Though it was inexpensive, it was not enough for Ford. “When I am through, he said”, “about everyone will have one.” Henry Ford was determined to see the whole population driving one of his automobiles around. No more horses, he wanted a car in everyone’s garage.
Henry Ford had a goal of increasing his factories’ productivity for years and he found the perfect way to do that, by creating an assembly line of workers. This new invented process started with the workers, who were building the Model N cars, would organize the different parts on the floor and put the under construction on auto skids and drag them down the line. Later on, this new system became more practical and used more efficiently. Ford soon assembled 84 discrete steps within the assembly line. Each worker was just given one job to do within this line, but they were trained and very good and this one job. In the meantime, Ford was building machines that could work more efficiently and much faster than even the fasted human worker. In February 1914, Henry Ford built a belt that moved at the speed of six feet per minute. As the pace of this line got faster and faster, more and more cars were constructed. On 4 Jun 1924 the 10- millionth Model T came of the Highland Park assembly line. By the mid 1920’s society was looking for and inexpensive car with all of the appealing elements of the model T. This time was becoming an era of the automobile for everyone.