The Ford Model T is an icon of automotive history, and the way it was made changed the industry. How many Model Ts were made, ...

Auto manufacturing didn't always look like the automated process it is today. Since the invention of the first gas-powered car with a combustion engine in 1885 by Germany's Karl Benz, the car ...

To reduce costs and increase production of his most successful automobile — the Model T — Henry Ford borrowed a tactic from the meatpacking industry and implemented the assembly line in his ...

Then he divided the labor by breaking the assembly of the Model T into 84 distinct steps. Each worker was trained to ... in the first moving assembly line ever used for large-scale manufacturing.