Mass production

:For the American band of the 1970s and 1980s, see Mass Production (band).

History

While Ford was first to introduce mass production in recent times, the idea was first developed in Venice several hundred years earlier, where ships were mass-produced using pre-manufactured parts, and assembly lines.

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Venice - Pre-manufactured parts - Assembly line

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The Venice Arsenal apparently produced nearly one ship every day, in what was effectively the world's first factory that, at its height, employed 16,000 people.

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Venice Arsenal - Factory

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Books were already mass produced since Johannes Gutenberg's Bible was published in the mid-1400s.

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Book - Johannes Gutenberg - Bible

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During the Industrial Revolution simple mass production techniques were used at the Portsmouth Block Mills to manufacture ships' pulley blocks for the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. It was also used in the manufacture of clocks and watches, and in the manufacture of small arms.

Related Topics:
Industrial Revolution - Portsmouth Block Mills - British Navy - Napoleonic Wars

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