1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...

Discover how Henry Ford revolutionized the auto industry with the Model T and the moving assembly line, founding Ford Motor ...

When Ford opened its Chicago plant in February 1924 on the banks of the Calumet River in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side, it was the dawn of the automobile age and the mass ...

Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley announces a new electric vehicle platform and assembly system at the Louisville Assembly Plant on August 11. Less than two weeks after announcing its electric vehicle ...

First released in 1908 by the Ford Motor Company, the Model T is one of the most important vehicles ever made. While it wasn't the first car to be produced on an assembly line, Ford took steps that ...

In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...

On December 10, 1915, the Ford Motor Company reached one of the most important production milestones in early automotive history: the completion of the 1,000,000th Model T. Introduced in 1908, the ...

There’s no doubt that you’ll instantly recognize clips from the video below, as they’ve been used over and over for more than 100 years to illustrate the development of the assembly line. But those ...

Ford introduced the Model T way back in 1908, and production continued for nearly two decades before finally coming to an end in 1927. Engines of this era, even four-cylinder engines like the unit ...