Ford Celebrates 100th Anniversary
How Automobiles, Assembly Line Changed America
Period costumes and a Model T Ford at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. — dubbed Greenfield Village
On Monday the Ford Motor Company celebrates its 100th anniversary. Ford's innovation in the early 1900s brought America the Model T and the assembly line. NPR's John Ydstie looks back on the company's influence on American society.
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