Before Ford: teacher key

Factories, grade 8 edition, written for 8th grade. The assembly line is older than Henry Ford. See who built the first ones, and what the first robot did.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Where did the first flow assembly line appear, by early 1853?
   • In Detroit
   • At Garrett & Sons in Leiston, England (answer)
   • In Tokyo
2. What did Adam Smith's pin factory show?
   • Pins are cheap
   • Pins are made by robots
   • Narrow jobs made ten workers far more productive (answer)
3. What did the Unimate do?
   • It worked on a General Motors assembly line in 1961 (answer)
   • It built the Model T
   • It wove cloth
4. Why is it wrong to say Ford invented the assembly line?
   • Ford never built cars
   • Ford disliked lines
   • Earlier lines existed before 1913 (answer)
5. What does inspection mean here?
   • Fast driving
   • Close checking for defects (answer)
   • Painting

Words

• foundry: metal workshop
• assembly: putting together
• Luddite: machine breaker
• inspection: close checking