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Assembly Line
During this time period, the assembly line became an important part of the industrial factory. From cars to butcher shops, an assembly line would be one of the handiest inventions of the century -
Ransom Olds Patents the Assembly Line Concept
Ransom Olds uses the assembly line in his Olds Motor Vehicle company factory. He patents the concept of the assembly line but is often overshadowed by the perfections made by Henry Ford. -
Olds Mass Produces Auotomobiles
In 1902, Olds quadruples production from 425 cars in 1901 to 2500 cars in 1902 -
Ford begins production on Ford Model T
Often thought of as the first mass produced automobile, the Ford Model T was produced from September 1908 to May 1927. This car was mainly availible to the middle class American due to innovations like the assembly line. -
Peak of Model T's Production
This year was the peak in Model T production, when 1.8 million cars were produced for use by the general public. -
Production of Ford Model T stops
As other automobile factories such as General Motors soared with use of other tactics, Ford's plummeted. Around this time, production of the Ford Model T stops as a result of this incident. At the same time, the 15 millionth Model T left Ford's Highland Park factory in Michigan. -
Industrial Robots introduced
In 1969 Victor Scheinman at Stanford University invented the Stanford arm, an all-electric, 6-axis articulated robot designed to permit an arm solution. This allowed it accurately to follow arbitrary paths in space and widened the potential use of the robot to more sophisticated applications such as assembly and welding. Scheinman then designed a second arm for the MIT AI Lab, called the "MIT arm." Scheinman, after receiving a fellowship from Unimation to develop his designs, sold those designs -
Other Countries Use Industrial Robots
Japanese and Italian Companies are fiiled with industrial robots that build the automobiles instead of humans. In one Italian Fiat, out of 2700 welds, only 20 were done by human hands.
