Henry Ford Uses an Assembly Line

On October 7, 1913, Henry Ford used the first large-scale, moving assembly line to produce his Model-T. Though Model-Ts had been built since 1908, they hadn't achieved Ford's goal of creating a reasonably inexpensive car for the people. To cut the cost of building a car even further, Ford realized that a car could be built more quickly, thus less costly, by bringing the car to the workers via a moving assembly line rather than workers having to build a stationary car.