On this date in history, in 1913, the Ford Motor Company installed the world’s first moving automobile assembly line, a breakthrough that utterly revolutionized industrial manufacturing and reshaped the modern economy. Before this moment, automobiles were built slowly and labor-intensively, assembled by teams of craftsmen at stationary workstations. Henry Ford and his engineers sought a radically different approach — one inspired in part by slaughterhouse “disassembly lines,” where animals moved