Transportation has become a major necessity in today’s society. Without the industrial revolution introducing the automobile, most people would find it very hard and frustrating to get around. Henry Ford had become a big part of starting this faster and safer “transportation era”. His brilliant thoughts and ideas brought about things including the “assembly line” and the “Model T”. It is because of him we can generally travel without any major problems.

Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 on a farm in Dearborn Michigan. Henry hated farm life and had a love and talent for running and fixing machinery. At the age of 15 he went to Detroit to train as a machinist. In 1888 he married Clara Bryant and had a son named Edsel Ford. In 1896, he completed his first automobile, the “Quadricycle” and in 1903 he founded the Ford Motor Company. Henry’s success was in fast motion and he was ready for anything that he was given. He was often known as “a little man challenging a monopoly”. This was just the beginning for Henry. He had no idea of how his name and how his product would take the industry to much higher heights.

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In 1908 Henry brought about the Model T Ford. Henry’s company sold about 15 millions cars. This car is what Henry is best known for. Although Henry Ford was not the first man in history to create a vehicle with a motor, he was the originator of the “assembly line”. An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and tools in which the product passes from operation to operation until completed (Customs Dic. Microsoft Word). Although there are high tech. machines handling all the work in today’s factories, this assembly line was a brilliant idea for getting things done easier and quicker.

Henry Ford started to age and realized that he could not run his business by himself. This is when he appointed his son, Edsel, to run the business for him. Unlike his father, Edsel went to Yale University and became very knowledgeable of machinery and the business behind it all. This, among many other things, helped Henry Ford carry on his legacy.

To this very day the “Ford” is one of America’s best selling cars. Without Henry Ford’s ideas and inputs into the automobile business, cars as we know it may not even be around. Henry Ford has gone down in history as one of the world’s most popular inventors of his time, and he will never be forgotten.

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