CHILDHOOD:

Henry Ford was born on July 30th, 1863, was one of six children of William and Mary Ford. Ford grew up a rich child in Dearborn, Michigan. As a kid he was interested in mechanical things and didnt like farm work at all.

In 1879, he was sixteen years old and he left home to go work in Detroit as an apprentice machinist. He was an Apprentice for three years and then returned to the farm in Dearborn. For the next few years, Henry worked in Detroit occasionally in a factory but at the same time he was operating or reparing steam engines. Later in 1888, Ford married a woman named Clara Bryant he then got a job of running a sawmill to support his family.

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

In 1891, Henry Ford became an engineer for the Edison Illumination Company in Detroit where in two years he became the Chief Engineer which gave him enough money to devote everything he had to his experiments with the internal combustion engine; which would later lead to the invention of the Model T and inspire him to make an assembly line.

INVENTIONS:

In 1896 he invented the self-propelled vehicle called the Quadricycle. It had four wire wheels that looked somewhat like bicycle wheels, it was steered by a tiller like a boat and had two forward speeds with no reverse.

Henry Ford, after two failed attempts, was the first person to perfect the assembly-line in Rogue River plant for the production of automobiles in ten seconds.

His Model T, created in 1908 was cheap and reliable, all parts were highly standardized. The price was $260 which was a price many average Americans could afford.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY:

In 1903 the Ford Motor Company was created as Henry Ford was the Vice-President and chief engineer. In the Beginning only a few cars were produced in a day because groups of two or three men worked on each car. The invention of the Model T in 1908 boosted the company because of its cheap price and its reliability. By 1918 half of the cars in America were Model Ts. For this to happen, in 1910 they built a large facotry in Michigan for faster and bigger production. Then in 1913 the assembly-line was created and added to the factory by Henry Ford.

FACTS:

In the late 1920's there were more cars produced than bathtubs.

The assembly-line revolutionized automobile manufacturing by decreasing time of production and how much was made.

Henry Ford built and drove race cars in his early career.

He financed a passivist expedition to Europe during WWI.

Ran for Senate in 1918, but lost.

He owned a newspaper that published Anti-Jew articles.