Workers on the First Moving Assembly Line

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Description

Henry Ford did not invent the moving assembly line, but he did improve it. Ford organized automobile-making around an orderly production process, delivered work to the worker continuously, and broke tasks into their smallest component parts. This innovation spread throughout the economy, transforming the manufacturing process and the worker’s role in it.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Information Agency.

National Archives Identifier: 1633486

Full Citation: 306-PSE-73-1534; Photograph of Workers on the First Moving Assembly Line; 1913; Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life, ca. 1953–ca. 1994; Records of the U.S. Information Agency, Record Group 306; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/workers-first-moving-assembly-line/, June 2, 2026]

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