Henry Ford Research Paper

Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863 to April 7, 1947. He was an American industrialist , he is the founder of the Ford Motor Company. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. By doing this he made it affordable for everyone to get a automobil. He became one of the richest and best known people in the world. He had had a global vision , consumers were the key to peace. When he was fifteen his father gave him a watch , he then started fixing and remaking his friends and others peoples watches making him known as the watch repairman. Ford was destroyed when his mother died. His father wanted him to take over the family farm but ford said , "I never had any particular love for the farm—it was the mother on the farm I loved." In

He supported them by working on the farm and running a sawmill. In 1891 he became an engineer at Edison Illuminating Company. After he had enough money he could put his attention on his experiment on gasoline engines. His experiment reached its peak in 1986 , with a self made vehicle which he named Ford Quadricycle. Ford was introduced to Thomas Edison which approved of his experiment. He then decided to make another vehicle. Doing this he resigned from his old company and founded the Detroit Automobile Company. The company was not successful and later was resolved. In October 1901 he successfully raced a 26-horsepower car. Due to this success stockholders helped create Ford Automobile Company, Ford was head engineer. Murphy brought in a consultant and in response Ford left the company and took the name with him. Soon after that he seen an old friend and they formed a partnership, "Ford & Malcomson, Ltd." to manufacture automobiles. It was the reincorporated as Ford Motor Company. A race car driver took the model “999” and made Ford know around the United