On 7 October 1913, the Highland Park Ford Plant became the first automobile production facility in the world to implement the assembly line . [ 4 ] The new assembly line improved production time of the Model T from 728 to 93 minutes. The Highland Parks assembly line lowered the price of the Model T from $700 in 1910 to $350 in 1917 making it an affordable automobile for most Americans. [ 5 ] Ford offered nearly three times the wages paid at other unskilled manufacturing plants.