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The following events occurred in April 1913: ==April 1, 1913 (Tuesday)== *The first trial of the assembly line method of manufacturing was made, with the Ford Motor Company testing the process in the putting together of a magneto for a flywheel motor at its factory in Highland Park, Michigan. The assembly process was split among 29 employees, each putting together a part of the magneto and then sending it over to another employee. The production time for each magneto was lowered from 20 minutes to 13 minutes. When the height of the line was raised the next year, and a moving conveyor was added, the time dropped to eight minutes, and then five minutes, a quadrupling of the production rate.〔"Industrial Revolution and Assembly Line Work", in ''Work in America, Volume 1: A - M'', Carl E. Van Horn and Herbert A. Schaffner, eds. (ABC-CLIO, 2003) p288〕 *Philippe, the Duke of Montpensier and pretender to the French throne, was proclaimed as the King of Albania by the provisional government.〔"Record of Current Events", ''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (May 1913), pp545-548〕〔〔"New King of Albany", ''Milwaukee Sentinel'', April 1, 1913, p1〕 *Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the British newspaper, the ''Daily Mail'', offered a prize of £10,000 ($50,000) to the first persons who could make a direct flight across the Atlantic Ocean, within 72 hours or less. In 2013 money, the equivalent would be £730,000 or $1.1 million. The shortest trip was 1,900 miles between Ireland and Newfoundland, which John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown would accomplish on June 15, 1919.〔"Alcock and Brown: First Across the Atlantic Direct", by John Motum, ''Putnam Aeronautical Review (July 1989) p84, reprinted by Naval Institute Press, 1990〕 *The Turkish government approved the terms of peace to end the First Balkan War, losing 60,000 square miles of its territory to the Balkan nations.〔"Turkey Agrees to Powers' Terms", ''New York Times'', April 2, 1913〕 *Former U.S. President William Howard Taft began serving as a professor of law at Yale University.〔"All New Haven Out to Greet Mr. Taft", ''New York Times'', April 2, 1913〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「April 1913」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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