Mass production and fore-runner to assembly line of Ford

[Rich Parsons]

I recently watched on the history channel a show called "The History of the Gun" - This show was about the Winchester in particular

In this show it talks about the firearms being mass produced in the 1860's.

I did a quick a search and found this site: http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/g_weit_info.html

It mentions that firearms were mass produced in the 1850's in manufacturing sites.

I just thought it was interesting that the manufcturing of the 20th century actually had a birth in 19th century firearm industry.

I just thought some credit was in order

 

[TonyM.]

Pretty cool stuff. I live just a few miles from what they call the precision valley.