HENRY FORD

PROFILE OF HENRY FORD

• He was an American industrialist.
• He was the founder of the Ford Motor Company.
• He was the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

• While working as an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit, Henry Ford built his first gasoline-powered horseless carriage, called the Quadricycle.
• He published many books such as my life and work, also today and tomorrow.
• He lived from July 30th, 1863 to April 7th, 1947.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

• In 1903, he established the Ford Motor Company, and five years later the company rolled out the first Model T.
• In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson convinced Ford to run for a seat on the Senate as a Democrat.
• In 1926, Henry Ford bought the Redstone School House in Sterling, Massachusetts.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

• Henry did not like working on the farm, but turned to farming at the age of 25, when he got married. He had to do it to support his family.
• He was inspired by Edison to start building cars.
• He was once a race car driver.

IMPACT OF HENRY FORD

• Henry Ford left a legacy that reaches far beyond the Model T’s driver’s seat. In pioneering a car affordable to nearly everyone.
• Henry was interested in how things worked, when fixed he would sell them at a affordable price for about anyone.
• Henry made a positive change in this time since he's left and it's still continuing on.

THOUGHTS ABOUT HENRY FORD

• I think Henry was a good man and reach success.
• I do not think I would of really liked to meet him cause he didn't do nothing that really fascinated me as a person.
• He's more into building or outside things that maybe boys would like and some girls, but I am not that girl.