Henry Ford: entrepreneur, inventor, and engineer. In this paper I will be telling you about how Henry Ford became an entrepreneur. I will also tell you if we still use his inventions today. There are a few other things I’ll talk about in this paper. For example, I will tell you about what made him so special.
Henry Ford is one of the most known names in the car industry. As a sixteen year old boy he left his family farm to become an apprentice for the Michigan railroad Car Company in 1879. Within the next year and a half he would have several similar jobs to what he did at Michigan railroad Car Company. Ford found his calling and he further pursued his engineering career. In his engineering career, “Ford developed his plans for a horseless carriage, and in 1896, he constructed his first model, the Ford Quadricycle.” After many models, in 1903, he established the Ford Motor Company.
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The automobiles name was the Model T. The Model T had no seatbelts it didn’t have a radio but it changed the way people would travel for the next 107 years. The model T’s average price was $550. Henry Ford said, “I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be so low in price that no man will be unable to own one.” The Model T was the invention that made the horse and carriage obsolete. By the time Ford stopped production of the Model T, the company produced about 15 million Model T’s. That same year the Ford Companies introduced the Model A. This model had better horsepower and