Model T

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Watch a comic silent movie highlighting the weaknesses of Henry Ford's Model T automobile

Tour the stages of Ford Motor Company's assembly lines producing the coupe, runabout, and Tudor sedan

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The History of Ford

How Henry Ford's assembly line revolutionized factory production

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Model T: Facts & Related Content

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flywheel magneto on Ford assembly line

Watch a comic silent movie highlighting the weaknesses of Henry Ford's Model T automobile

Tour the stages of Ford Motor Company's assembly lines producing the coupe, runabout, and Tudor sedan

How Henry Ford's assembly line revolutionized factory production

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Key People

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

American industrialist

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Vintage engraving from 1878 of the spinning room in Shadwell Rope Works. View of the factory floor. Industrial revolution

Pop Quiz: 15 Things to Know About the Industrial Revolution

A model 'T' Ford motor-car outside a suburban house, 1924.

Famous Nicknames

ornithopter. Airplane and Aircraft. 3D illustration of Leonardo da Vinci's plans for an ornithopter, a flying machine kept aloft by the beating of its wings; about 1490.

Inventions: From Bayonets to Jet Engines

ball bearing. Disassembled ball bearing. rotational friction Automobile Industry, Engineering, Industry, Machine Part, Metal Industry, Sphere, Steel, Wheel

Inventors and Inventions

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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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