Talk:American system of manufacturing/Archives/2014

Earlier example.
Most articles that link to this article do so referring to the Venice Arsenal as the earliest factory / assembly line with standardized parts.


 * The Venice Arsenal provides one of the first examples of a factory in the modern sense of the word. Founded in 1104 in Venice, Republic of Venice, several hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, it mass-produced ships on assembly lines using manufactured parts. The Venice Arsenal apparently produced nearly one ship every day and, at its height, employed 16,000 people.

This may be more pertinent in the history section, as it predates the earliest historical reference by nearly a millennium. BaSH PR0MPT (talk) 10:15, 29 December 2014 (UTC)