How Did Henry Ford Impact The Industrial Revolution

Born on July 20,1863 on his family farm near Dearborn, Michigan is where American industrialist, Henry Ford got his start. From a very young age Ford never showed interest in the farm but showed interest in tinkering with things. At the age of sixteen Ford went to find a job in Detroit, Michigan in its mechanic shops; at the age of eighteen he went to work part-time at the Westinghouse Engine Company; then finally at the age of thirty he got a job at Edison Illuminating Company. Because of Ford did have a regular schedule although he was always on call at the Edison Illuminating Company, this free time lead to his first vehicle invention which he called the Quadricycle. The Quadricycle was a gasoline-powered horseless carriage that could only

With starting his own company this allowed the birth of one Ford’s most known cars, the Model T. The Model T was built from 1908 thru 1927 and people loved it for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance; it was also offered in many different styles like a five-seat touring car, a two-seat runabout, and a seven-seat town car. Henry Ford and the way the Model T was produced would impact the Second Industrial Revolution, or also known as the Technological Revolution. Ford impacted the Second Industrial because he modified the assembly line, introduced the idea of a five-hour work week, an eight-hour workday, and raised their pay from two dollars and thirty-four cents to five dollars (which was unheard of at the time). Ford did not only impact the second industrial revolution but he also changed the views of automotives, which were seemed useless and were only bought by rich people and made them

If unaware of what an assembly line it is defined in the dictionary as, “an arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line.” The way he changed the assembly is by making it for the mass production of an automobile, which was never done before. This not only lowered the time to make it took to make the car (twelve hours to two hours and thirty minutes) but it also allowed him to lower the price of the car (started at eight hundred and fifty dollars in 1908 to three hundred dollars in 1925). Henry Ford’s assembly line was described as, “The parts moved past workers on a waist height conveyor belt, and the workers weren’t allowed to sit, whistle, smoke, or even make small talk with each other as they worked.” These strict and rigorous rules were set in place to make sure that the cars would be made faster rather than