Ford's moving assembly line
Cars built in 90 minutes — motoring goes mass-market
In 1913 Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line at Highland Park. Assembly time for a Model T fell from about 12 hours to 90 minutes, cars became affordable to the masses, and the line became the emblem of industrial mass production.
Wikipedia (English) · 20th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 1 year later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 5 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 7 years later
Europe
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 8 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 6 years later
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 15 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 20 years later
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 4 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 4 years later
- 1917 February Revolution — 4 years later
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 16 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 5 years earlier
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 5 years earlier
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 2 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 3 years later
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 3 years later
Africa
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 16 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 9 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 9 years later
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 22 years later
Asia
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 19 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 17 years earlier
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 2 years earlier
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 10 years later
- 1931 China floods — 18 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 20 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 20 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 2 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 1 year earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 66)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 57)
- Marie Curie (aged 46)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 44)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 43)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 42)
- Winston Churchill (aged 39)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 35)
- Albert Einstein (aged 34)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 32)