In 1896, Grover Cleveland was just finishing his second term as president of the United States. The automobile was such a novelty that few people other than a handful of tinkerers had even set foot in one. In 1903, the year the Ford Motor Company went into business, the city of Detroit fixed a speed limit of eight miles per hour for almost a mile around city hall. Convicted speeders paid $100, which was about two months' wages for an average American worker. But the "average American worker" was not driving America's first cars. They were, as Ford observed, "a rich man's toy" or, as Woodrow Wilson claimed, a "new symbol of wealth's arrogance."

Henry Ford changed all that. He didn't invent either the auto or the mass production scheme he so brilliantly employed to churn out cars by the millions. But he did, in his own wo

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