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My whole life I was taught that Henry Ford invented the assembly line. I just watched a show that claimed Heinz did.
I've also read Benz was the man, and others.
So which one was it? Who knows. Why trust anything I have been taught?
We don’t know anything for sure, all may be not true, but here we are, probably existing and that, in this moment, is a fact for yourself. So who gives a damn, just keep that thought in the back of your mind and know, that there is always the possibility about everything u know being wrong
I feel the same way. It’s hard to know what information is true or not from misinformation online to history misreported through the years. A healthy amount of skepticism is necessary to discover what’s really true. I wouldn’t be too paranoid though or I would recognize if you started getting too paranoid or distrustful of your peers or society since that may be a sign of schizophrenia.
Ransom Olds patented the assembly line concept, which he put to work in his Olds Motor Vehicle Company factory in 1901. ... The moving assembly line was developed for the Ford Model T and began operation on October 7, 1913, at the Highland Park Ford Plant, and continued to evolve after that, using time and motion study.
This is what I mean. You say that with such conviction, and until yesterday I would probably have believed you and yet this is also well known:
"Every aspect of the factory was timed and measured and continually improved. He aggressively automated the factory, being among the first to have a true assembly line, many years before Henry Ford."
The quote is regarding the Heinz factory in 1890.
I'm not interested in patents. Making a single change to something can be enough to grant a patent. It doesn't mean invention.
My point of this post is to ask if others have trouble trusting people and facts after finding out statements like yours are false and misleading. Not having a go at you, I would have regurgitated the same stuff. We were "taught" this after all.
Ransom E. Olds of Oldsmobile fame, invented and patented the concept of the assembly line. In his version, the cars were kept in one spot and the workers moved down a line from car to car.
Henry ford is almost always given credit, because he modified Olds idea and created the first assembly line where the cars moved and the workers were pretty much stationary, which as I'm sure you can see is much more efficient.
You can rely on Olds as being the true original inventor, since his patent is dated and a part of public record.
There is no point researching if data is contradictory.
What is the point of being taught supposed facts in school when these "facts" are questionable?