The theoretical idea was born with Taylorism and whoever had the idea of putting it into practice was Ransom Olds, who inaugurated his assembly line in 1901 by building his prototype called Curved Dash. However, the assembly line system became popular a few years later, thanks to Henry Ford, who, taking the idea of Olds, developed an assembly line with a superior production capacity and of which its flagship product was the Ford T However, this evolution achieved to the assembly line, would cause the public to mistakenly attribute his invention to Ford, instead of Olds. in the XXI century.
