Henry Ford

By BrianKirwan123

  • Henry Ford is born

    Henry Ford was born on his father's farm near Dearborn, Michigan.

  • First Job

    Henry Ford gets his first job at Michigan Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer in Detroit

  • Starts apprenticeship

    Starts apprenticeships as watch repairman in a Detroit jewelry shop.

  • Bussiness school

    Attends a business school in Detroit.

  • Gets Married

    Married Clara Ala Bryant

  • Becomes an Engineer

    Henry Ford becomes an enginner at Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit.

  • Creates his first experimental car

    Runs the Quadricycle on the streets of Detroit

  • Beats Alexander Winton in a race

    Henry Ford driving his own car beats Alexander Winton in a race, thus attracting investors in which they from Henry Ford Co.

  • Leaves Henry Ford Co.

    Leaves Henry Ford Company, the company goes on to become Cadillac.

  • Creates the Ford Model T

    Introduces the Ford Model T, becomes a world wide sensation.

  • Introducuction of the assembly line

    Henry Ford introduces the assembly line at Highland Park

  • Ford Fleet of lake and ocean vessels

    Ford starts to make boats as well as cars.

  • War production starts

    War production starts with the production of 282,000 jeeps and just under 8,500 bombers built by the end of the war.

  • Dies

    Henry Ford dies due to a cerebral hemorrhage