Henry Ford was an american industrialist and the owner of one of the biggest automobile companies in the world, The Ford Motor Company. Henry grew up a farmer but was always searching for something more in life. He had a love for mixing things, and constructing new technology, which resulted in him created cars and trucks. Henry Ford lived from July 30th, 1863 until April 7th, 1947. He was born new Dearborn, Michigan. His father was William Ford, and was a farmer. His mother was Mary Litogot Ford. He did like farming but knew he was supposed to do something else in his lifetime. He left home at the age of 16 on the search to find what that something was. On the road to finding it, he met a girl, Clara Ala Bryan , and married her is 1888. They soon had a son, Edsel Ford. As they started to become a family he returned to farming until he found something else to do. in 1891 he moved to an engineer for Edison Illuminating Company. The head guy saw Ford had a passion for his work and was a hard worker so he promoted him to Chief Engineer. …show more content…
Later on in 1896, he created his first model, The Ford Quadricycle. Thomas Edison, the owner of the company he worked for, was extremely impressed when ford shared his model which let to encourage ford to build a 2nd better model. In October, 1908 he created the Ford Model T. Selling millions of cars he soon became a world famous company head, but then lost its market dominance but had a lasting impact on other technological development. The mass production significantly cut down the time to product an automobile which allowed cost to stay low. Ford saw the change for in 1914 he increased the daily wage from $2.34 for a 9 hour day, to $5 for an 8 hour day which set a standard for the