Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Michigan. When Henry turned sixteen he left his home in Detroit for an apprentice opportunity with a machinist. The first engine he built was steam turbine. The boiler exploded, hit Ford in the chest, and caught a fence on fire at his school. He was required to pay for the fence. His first working engine was a water turbine that ran off of a faucet to power a wood lathe. The engine had ½ horse power.

When Ford was 28 he became an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company. This company was also in Detroit. In 1893 he was promoted and he could now afford to experiment with internal combustion engines.

Probably the most well known car in history was the model “T”, produced in 1908 for the first time. His was the first car that the common man could handle and afford with a little bit of saving. In 1913 Henry Ford had opened the first continuously moving assembly line, a break through in the American industrial revolution. By the year 1918, ½ of all the cars in America were Ford’s model “T”. This was also the year Henry opened his factory in Highland Park, Michigan. In the 1920’s Ford began producing more of his own materials including steel and glass parts. He used the steel to make shock springs, axels, car frames and panels, engine blocks, and cylinders. He made windows and engine insulators (electric). By 1927 fifteen million model “T”’s had been sold. By this time Henry was a very rich man.

time in company history that a Ford would not be actively involved in the company's’ leadership. He remained chairman of the Finance Committee until his death in 1987.

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