How Did Henry Ford Make In The 1920's

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“ You say I started out with nothing, but that’s incorrect, we all start with all there is, it’s just how we use it that makes things possible”. This was just one of the many quotes told by Henry Ford. He was one of America’s many early automobile engineers, his most revolutionary car was the Model T. It was a very important part of the 1920’s. The way that automobiles were made in the 1920’s is almost the same as today and that is how much of an impact the car had in the Modern World. The man who invented the Model T metamorphosed the automobile industry. Henry Ford was always an ingenious thinker. He was born on July 30, 1863 in Dearborn Michigan. During his childhood he never really liked the farming lifestyle, so when he turned 16 he ran away from home to be an apprentice to a mechanic in Detroit. after some time he went back to the farm to help out and started reaping some steam engines. He got Married to Clara Bryant at the age of 24, about three years after he was hired for the Edison Illuminating company …show more content…

The assembly line also made the cars cheaper overtime, such as how in 1908 when the Model T was first sold it was eight hundred fifty dollars and in 1925 it went down to two hundred fifty dollars. Since mass production was working well it needed more materials to build with, and other industries soon started to thrive. Such as during the 1920’s 1,000,000,000 was spent on national highways and the U.S.A. ended up having large quantities of raw material. Soon enough the new idea of mass production trickled from the automotive industry to other ones, such as ones like making vacuums or other less complex items. Another result of the assembly line was that workers got better wages because there were not as many hours of labor or as many workers to pay. By 1925 Ford was producing a car every ten