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1000 Cars per Day | Henry Ford
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Under Ford's old system, the record time to assemble a car was 12 hours and 13 minutes. Using a new assembly line process, it took just 1 hour and 33 minutes. Learn more at pbs.org/americanexperience.
About Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.
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