Henry Ford Research Paper

Henry Ford, born on July 30, 1863 and died on April 7, 1947. He was born on the family farm near Dearborn, Michigan, then a town a few miles west of Detroit. At age 16 he walked to Detroit to find work in there machine shops. After three years, he returned to the farm, where he worked part-time for the Westinghouse Engine Company, and when he had extra time he played around in a little machine shop he had set up for himself (history.com). Eventually he built a small tractor that used an old mowing machine for its chassis and a homemade steam engine for power. Henry was an American inventor that revolutionized the car assembly line forever, he changed the production of one car made every 12 hours to one car made every 2 and 1/2 hours. Ford sold millions and millions of cars and is still selling millions of cars to this day.

He left his home and moved to a firm in Detroit as a machinist (thehenryford.org). Soon he learned many skills and married his wife Clara Ala Bryant, in 1888. Clara and him had a son a few years later in 1893. Before Henry had his son, he got a job as an engineer for the Detroit Edison Company. He was promoted shortly after to chief engineer due to his natural talents in the engineering field. In 1892 Ford made his first gas powered buggy. Henry built his first model car in 1896 (biography.com). He called it the “Ford Quadricycle.” Ford had called it this, because the chassis of the four horse power vehicle was a buggy frame mounted on four bike wheels. Thomas Edisons executives and Ford had a meeting together and he showed them his plans for his automobile. Thomas pushed him to build a better model of his