Henry ford was born July 30, 1863, in Greenfield Township, Michigan. His parents were William Ford and Mary Litogot Ford. They lived near Dearborn, Michigan on his family farm.
Henry ford had two brothers and two sisters; Jane Ford, Robert Ford, William Ford. Jr, Margaret Ford. Henry ford was a bright and curious as a child, he always wanted to build stuff and he dismantled a pocket watch and reassembled it by himself. Later in 1888 to 1890 he begins experiments on internal combustion engine.
He attended school until the age of fifteen, at which time he developed a dislike of farm life and a fascination for machinery. He had little interest in school and was a poor student. He never learned to spell or to read well. Henry attended school at the Detroit Business Institute. In 1888, Henry Ford married Clara Ala Bryant. The couple had a son, Edsel Ford in 1893.
He was able to take ideas from Eli Whitney and Oliver Evans to create the assembly line. This was effected today because now products makers are able to do their jobs faster. For example, Henry Ford's invention more than doubled his production and saved him lots of money. We are able to get products faster and cheaper because of the assembly line. Since it improved mass production there was more of everything produced available to society. It also
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“On October 1, 1908 he did what he said, when he introduced the model T, for $850. In the model T’s nineteen years of production,nearly 15,500,000 were sold in the United States alone. During the World War, Henry Ford brought about a need for a new technology: airplanes. Ford decided that airplanes weren’t that different from cars in a manufacturing sense, so he began the Ford Airplane Company. Although the company closed in 1933 because of a lack of sales, Ford has been recognized as one of the pioneers of aviation for the work that he