“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.” Henry Ford. Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan. He had 5 siblings and was tought mechanics at a very young age by his father. On April 7, 1947, Henry experienced a cerebral hemorrhage and died on his estate. Henry Ford was a brother of 5 siblings. He created the first automobiles and welcomed them to the world.
In 1879, sixteen-year-old Ford left home to go to a near there city of Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist. He was an apprentice for three years and then returned to Dearborn. During the next few years, Henry worked between operating and repairing steam engines, finding work sometimes in a Detroit factory, as well as lending a reluctant hand with other farm work. “An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous,” Henry said this. He married Clara Bryant in 1888, Henry supported himself and his wife by running a sawmill. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. “He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night”.
On June 4, 1896, Henry Ford, at age 32, completed his first successful horseless carriage, which he called the Quadricycle. After the Quadricycle, He started working on making even better automobiles. It was this third attempt at a company to make automobiles, the Ford Motor Company succeeded. On July 15, 1903, the Ford Motor Company sold its first car, a Model A, a dentist, for $850. “I'm going to democratize the automobile.” Ford continually worked to improve the cars' design and soon created Models B, C, and F. Henry once said that, “I will create a car for the multitude!” He did, he sold over 15 million model T’s.
The automobile created mobility on a scale never known before and the total effect on living habits and social ways are big. Motor vehicles and paved roads have made rural and urban life closer. Farmers can ship easily by truck and can drive to town when it is convenient. Also schools and hospitals are now more accessible and more used. The effect on city life has majorerly been big. Highway transportation encourages business and industry to move outward to sites where land is cheaper, where access by car and truck is easier than in crowded cities, and where space is available for their one or two story structures. Better roads were constructed, which further increased travel throughout the nation. The century automobiles happened many more jobs have been made.
Henry Ford became an icon of a self-made man. He began life as a farmer's son and quickly became rich and famous. Although an industrialist, Ford remembered the common man. He designed the Model T for the masses, installed a mechanized assembly line to make production cheaper and faster, and instituted the $5 per day pay rate for his workers. What would are world be like without this person?
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