American industrialist who founded Ford Motor Company and introduced the moving assembly line — reducing the time to build a Model T from 12 hours to 93 minutes and creating the template for 20th-century mass production.
Introduced the moving assembly line at Highland Park in 1913, reducing production time by 90% and enabling the $5/day wage — simultaneously creating mass production and mass consumption by making the automobile affordable to the workers who built it.
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