24K views · 97 reactions | Food, cars, tech... The assembly line modernized American industry in the late 19th-century. One of the first recorded American industrial assembly lines was implemented in the Chicago-based Swift & Company slaughterhouse, which would greatly influence Henry Ford's application of the process. Earlier iterations of assembly lines date back to the early 18th-century in #Europe and #China. #science #satisfyingvideos | Science Channel | Facebook