This fascinating film chronicles the legacy of the Highland Park Ford Plant, from its glory days as the birthplace of the Model T to its eventual decline and dismantling. The footage is divided ...

A team of engineers, designers and machinists created the vehicle with Henry Ford, and the team also planned at this site what would become the moving assembly line. 1910: Model T production is ...

History credits Henry Ford and the Model T for optimizing the modern assembly line and making mass-produced automobiles more affordable. However, the road to greatness wasn't smooth sailing ...

“And there was a drafting table and a chalkboard in here,” he says, walking into the L-shaped ... Ford eventually built 15,000,000 Model Ts. “Henry Ford wanted to make the Model T forever ...

In 1907, Henry Ford announced ... the labor by breaking the assembly of the Model T into 84 distinct steps. Each worker was trained to do just one of these steps. Ford called in Frederick Taylor ...

The first Model T was delivered to a customer on Oct. 1, 1908. Henry Ford and his team also were experimenting with a moving assembly line at Piquette to make production more efficient.

Henry Ford, were he alive, might be furious, or he might appreciate the efficiency of the decision. A century ago, a historic red-brick automobile assembly plant near the St. Johns River in ...

Perfecting the use of an assembly line allowed Ford to lower prices significantly further; by 1913, a touring Model T cost just $600 – and Henry Ford managed to half the cost to just $300 by 1915.

according to The Henry Ford. This implementation came with Ford's advancement of the assembly line. From 1913 to 1914, Ford reduced the time to build a Model T from 12 and a half hours to 93 minutes.