Henry Ford American businessman (Dearborn, Michigan, 1863-1947). After receiving only elementary education, he trained as a machine engineer in the Detroit industry. As soon as the Germans Daimler and Benz began to launch the first automobiles (towards 1885), Ford became interested in the invention and began to construct its own prototypes. However, his first attempts failed. He did not achieve success until his third business project, launched in 1903: the Ford Motor Company. It consisted in making simple and cheap automobiles destined for the mass consumption of the average American family; until then the automobile had been an object of homemade manufacture and of prohibitive cost, destined to a very limited public. With its T model, Ford put the car within reach of the middle classes, introducing it into the era of mass consumption; with this he contributed to drastically alter the habits of life and work and the physiognomy of the cities, making …show more content…
Whenever such a demand existed, chain-based manufacturing made it possible to save lost working time by not having to move workers from one place to another in the factory, taking the recommendations of Frederick's "scientific work organization" Taylor, who would have so much influence in the second phase of the Industrial Revolution. Each operation was compartmentalized in a succession of mechanical and repetitive tasks, leaving the technical or craft qualifications of the workers no longer valuable, and nascent industry could take better advantage of the unskilled labor of immigrants arriving massively to the States United States every