Mass production is the process or method of producing goods in large quantities. This is done at a very low cost per unit. This doesn’t mean that the large quantities of merchandise or goods are produced at low quality but produced at high quality. This is a great way to produce more than one image or photograph in photo history. This process could be done in a number of ways. One being with machine tools and interchangeable parts and another way would be an assembly line. These machines were used to make machines and this precise tolerance was brought about by a series of 19th century innovators. They figured out a way for industrial machine tools to be capable of cutting and shaping hard metals. This was a great way for a lot of goods to be produced. In factories we all think of assembly lines and this was also be traced back to the 19th century. The assembly line was used for meat packing and after observation of this assembly line and the mass production of this product, Henry Ford designed an assembly line that began operation in 1913. This genius idea helped the American automobile manufacturer out a great deal in producing large quantities of high end cars. Mass production was the rise of producing and producing mass quantities and this became a very important process to many people. In photography they found out that instead of producing just one image or photo they could have several printed of the same image to make more money. As mentioned before this process didn’t reproduce low quality but it produced high quality and that was a great selling point. I feel that mass production was probably a great way for more money to be made and also made life and time a lot better for this time period. Everything before this was done by hand which we all know took a lot more time than it needed to. Since mass production was established less time was taken to produce more product of high quality and performance and this was a great key factor.
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