Henry Ford (1863-1947), the founder of Ford Motor Company was an innovator and a visionary businessman. He was born in a moderate household to a farmer, William Ford and always had a flare for machines. He built his first vehicle, the Ford Quadricycle in 1896 and then went on to establish his own company, Ford Motor Company in 1903. He revolutionized the automobile industry by introducing the automobile, the luxury of the rich then, to the masses. He pioneered the moving assembly line for the mass…

Henry Ford A major part of history started during the Industrial Revolution when Henry Ford founded The Ford Motor Company. Ford’s family had a part in the company with ideas and presidency. The first ideas of the company came out of Ford’s backyard with him using a bicycle to make a vehicle. The assembly line had a big impact that affected other companies by making production much faster. A wide variety of vehicles made patrons be interested in seeing what kind of inventions could be made next…

Henry Ford’s Lasting Legacy “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” (Henry Ford). Henry Ford is one of the world’s most renowned leaders for the automobile industry. The son of a farmer, Ford has always been interested in how things worked. He has improved the models of his cars to make manufacturing them faster and more efficient by using assembly lines. He also set a balance between his employees’ wages and hours worked. Ford never stopped innovating…

Ford Model T: The Idea That Started a Revolution Nathan McCourt Mr. Todd Willems 20th Century History 19 December 2011 Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 The “Assembly Line”………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 Keeping the Relationship……………………………………………………………………………………………………….6 The Ethos of Mass Production………………………………………………………………………………………………..8 Industries Built off an Industry………………………………………………………………………………………………11 Transforming America…

The Life of Henry Ford Henry Ford once said, “I will build a motorcar for the masses…constructed of the best materials, by the best me to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise…so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.” (Willamette 1) This is one of his most memorable yet earliest public quotes in history, that can easily…

Cars are a major part of everyday life. People today cannot imagine walking from Northeast Philadelphia to South Philadelphia, let alone traveling from Philadelphia to Florida. The vehicle that started the mobile craze in America was the Model T ford by Henry Ford. Hitting it off with the entire nation, The Model T Ford was a smashing success. People would say that when the farm was under Henry's control. They would not see any tools. Henry ran his farm the way of the “future”. Henry ran a very efficient…

Mr. Mahmud Reyani who gave me a lot of their times to help me in many different ways to complete my project. The use of biofuel is not a new invention but it used by ancient people using vegetable and oil lamps. The first automobile car was built by Henry Ford and operated by pure ethanol in 1896. Then in 1900 at world Expo Rudolf Diesel 's exhibit new engine run by peanut oil (Michael et al, 2011). Biofuels is not new invention but during oil crises 1973-74 and 1979-80, countries searched for…

Henry Ford - Model T Henry Ford is famous and well known as a businessman, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and helped in the development of the assembly line. Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Michigan. His mother was Mary Litogot Ford and his father was William Ford. They raised their son, Henry, on a farm in Wayne County, Michigan. Henry Ford was very unhappy with working at the farm he was raised on. He had a gift for taking apart and reconstructing timepieces(Biography.com Editors)…

think about Ford, an automobile will usually come to mind. Most people don’t think about the man behind that name, Henry Ford. Henry Ford was the man responsible for the Ford Motor Company (FMC). He was also the creator of the invention that changed the mass production industry, the assembly line. As you read on you will learn about Henry Ford’s life, the FMC, and the assembly line. FORD’S LIFE In Wayne County, Michigan on July 30, 1863, a pair of Irish immigrants, William and Mary Ford, gave birth…

Henry Ford "It is doubtful if any mechanical invention in the history of the world has influenced in the same length of time the lives of so many people in an important way as the motor car." So writes an American historian, thinking of the automobile alone. But it does not stand-alone. It was the automobile factory that introduced mass production, a process that has changed the lineaments of our economic and social life more profoundly than any other single element in the recent history of…