114 years agoInternal Combustion and Flight
1913
The Moving Assembly Line
Ford adopted the moving assembly line, turning the car into a mass-market product.
Art style · 1910s Ford factory photograph
World population
1.8Bpeople
1/5 of today
Primary energy power
1.7×10¹²W
1/12 of today
London → New York message
0.14 seconds
5 times slower than today
Every timeline entry cites its source. Metrics interpolate logarithmically between sourced data points. Forecasts include institutional and community views, and attributed site scenarios; years are not guaranteed realization dates. Illustrations are AI-generated in each era's style.
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