Have you ever thought about what it be like if you lived in the 1870’s with the only transportation available was a horse powered wagon? Do you know the man who changed the course of our history about cars? The man that revisioned and improved the assembly line.Who was he? This successful man's name was Henry Ford born on July 30, 1863, Dearborn Michigan. Ford had worked on his family farm for sixteen years until his mother died in 1876 leaving him depressed. He realized that he did not want to live on the farm because it reminded him of his mother. Henry Ford left home and became an apprentice machinist in Detroit there Ford found good knowledge about steam engines. In 1882, Ford came home and he started working on his family farm again