NPR highlights Model T's anniversary, influence

This September will mark the 100th anniversary of the car that revolutionized Detroit and the world. National Public Radio takes a look at the Tin Lizzie, which was first produced in a small plant on Piquette Avenue.

Excerpt:

This year is the 100th anniversary of perhaps the most famous car ever made. The first Ford Model T — also known as the Tin Lizzie — rolled out of Detroit in 1908. It put America on wheels and helped forge a manufacturing revolution.

At Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant, in a room about 12 feet by 15 feet in size, Henry Ford and a handful of engineers worked to build what Ford called a "universal car."

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