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DATE OF BIRTH
Henry Ford was born in 1865 in Michigan. He had 4 siblings, and his family owned a farm. He worked on the farm when he was young, but he soon discovered that he loved taking things apart to see how they worked, then putting them back together again. He worked on watches a lot, and ended up helping many people fix their watches. -
STARTED TO WORK
In 1879, when he was 16 years old, he moved to Detroit to start working with machines, though he did come home and work on the farm a little, too. -
HE MARRIED
Ford got married to Clara Bryant in 1888, and worked on a sawmill. He eventually became an engineer -
HE WORKED WITH EDISON
Ford worked for the Edison Illuminating Company and even got to meet Thomas Edison! Edison encouraged him to keep working on his plans for his horseless carriage, powered by a motor.
Ford’s gasoline-powered horseless carriage was called the Quadricycle -
LAUNCHING OF MODEL "T"
His "Model T” car, released in 1908, was easy to drive and to repair, which made many people want one. He needed to make a lot of cars very quickly. His company, Ford Motor Company, hired skilled workers to work on an assembly line. The car would move through the line, and each worker had a job along the line. One worker might put on the steering wheel, while at a different spot on the line, another worker put on tires -
FORD PASSED AWAY
In addition to using the assembly line to produce cars, Ford was also known for paying his workers fair wages. Henry Ford died in 1947, but his company is still around and making cars today.