"Henry Ford in a Model T"
Photograph
Source: "Henry Ford in a Model T." Corbis. Image no. BE036561. Available online at http://pro.corbis.com (accessed February 2, 2003).
About the Inventor: Henry Ford (1863–1947) grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. At the age of sixteen he became an apprentice in the James Flower and Brothers Machine Shop. He continued learning about machines at the Detroit Drydock Company, a shipbuilding firm. In the late nineteenth century, Ford eventually developed a motorized automobile, and in 1899, he formed the Detroit Automobile Company, which later reorganized as the Cadillac Motor Car Company. In 1903, he founded the Ford Motor Company, which he eventually transformed into a multinational conglomerate in thirty-three countries. His innovations in automobile manufacturing changed the automobile industry—and life in America.
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