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I've heard my whole life that Henry Ford was the inventor of the assembly-line factory. But "it was not Henry Ford but Gustavus Swift and Philip Armour who developed the assembly-line technique that continues to symbolize the rationalized organization of work." As a young man Ford visited the stock yards in Chicago, the largest slaughterhouse in the world, and adapted what they were already doing to build cars.