Henry Ford

By JonGui12

  • Birth

    Birth
    In detroit Michigan
  • Period: to

    Henry Ford

  • Became an Enginner

    Became an Enginner
    Edison Illumintaing company

  • Chief Engineer

  • Quadricycle

    Quadricycle
    Test drove it on June 4. Then he Brainstormed ideas to improve it.

  • Automobli Company

    Automobli Company
    Ford resigned from the Edison Company and founded the Detroit Automobile Company on August 5, 1899.

  • Closed

    Was shut down in January 1901.

  • Partnership

    Partnership
    Ford received the backing of an old acquaintance, Alexander Y. Malcomson, a Detroit-area coal dealer.[12] They formed a partnership, "Ford & Malcomson, Ltd." to manufacture automobiles

  • Model T

    Model T
    The Model T was introduced on October 1, 1908. It was so cheap at $825 in 1908 ($21,340 today) (the price fell every year) that by the 1920s, a majority of American drivers had learned to drive on the Model T.

  • $5 payday

    $5 payday
    Ford astonished the world in 1914 by offering a $5 per day wage ($120 today), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers.

  • Tin Goose

    Tin Goose
    Ford's most successful aircraft was the Ford 4AT Trimotor, often called the "Tin Goose" because of its corrugated metal construction. It used a new alloy called Alclad that combined the corrosion resistance of aluminum with the strength of duralumin.

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