conveyor chains called disassembly lines disas sembly vs assembly But be that as it may on Oc tober 7 1913 Ford s factory at Highland Park in Detroit started a pilot run of his first moving line for the production of the Model T Since then this date has been regarded as the beginning of the moving line and of Fordism a synonym for soul less mass production decisively coined by Antonio Gramsci a Marxist intellectual Not to be forgot ten in this context though is the fact that Henry Ford not only increased production eight fold but in doing so drastically reduced the price of his Tin Lizzie from 850 to 370 U S dollars Suddenly larg er parts of the population were able to afford their own four wheels which rang in the era of personal mobility for everyone This was particularly true because the wages of the line workers clearly increased too In 1914 Ford introduced the moving line into automobile production in 1913 Volvo stopped using it 60 years later at least temporarily 1787 This fully automated flower mill with a conveyor belt is regarded as the first milestone achievement in modern production technologies But let s keep things in chronological order In 1787 the American inventor and flour mill owner Oliver Evans used a conveyor belt to move whole grain and flour as part of a fully automated flour mill Evans mill is regarded as the first milestone achievement in modern production technologies His conveyor took cues from a water conveyance system dating to the Roman period which tells us that this is an age old concept In 1833 a seam less conveyor system was rolled out in a factory for hardtack aka cabin bread near London It s of ten referred to as the first modern manufacturing line Similar forms of manufacturing were known in the German baking industry as well for instance at the Bahlsen biscuit factory where the first con veyor systems were used as far back as in 1905 To close the loop with the automotive industry In 1901 the production of the Oldsmobile in Michi gan was launched with the help of a moving belt system The vehicles were partially assembled on wooden racks and pulled to the next station Two sides of the Fordism coin Even though Henry Ford ultimately just adapted existing manufacturing technologies to his needs he s deemed to be the father of the assembly line He d adopted the idea from the world s larg est meat factory the Union Stock Yards in Chica go where livestock were suspended from rotating 36

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