First in mass production: five and half centuries ago, the printed bible needed a lot of letters. From: Mechanical Engineering-CIME | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Woods, Robert O. | COPYRIGHT 2005 American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

We have become accustomed to regarding machine-made products as essentially identical. No one worries, for example, that the new razor blades will not fit the razor.

Such interchangeability is the hallmark of mass production. Eli Whitney IS credited with introducing the concept of interchangeable parts when he began using jigs and fixtures to produce functionally identical components for muskets. Henry Ford carried mass production to its present state when he introduced ...

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