
Ford scaled the impossible
Mass production became famous when Henry Ford applied electric motors to chain, or sequential, production. The result was a system built for speed, repetition, and huge volume.Ford and the Rise of Mass Production

Machines were built for one job
Ford used special-purpose machine tools and fixtures—holding devices—to combine multiple steps into one. Some machines could drill every hole on one side of an engine block in a single operation.Ford and the Rise of Mass Production