... rigorous chores of a farmer. In the year 1879, Henry being a meager 16 years old, he moved to the city of Detroit where he would work as an apprentice machinist. Henry would remain in Detroit working and learning about all varieties of machines. Although, he occasionally came back to visit Dearborn, he mostly stayed in ... father's machines, along with the dreaded farm chores. Henry Ford was a hard worker and he proved that getting fired from one of his jobs in Detroit because the older employees we"re mad at him because he was finishing his repairs in a half-hour rather than the usual f...

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... rigorous chores of a farmer. In the year 1879, Henry being a meager 16 years old, he moved to the city of Detroit where he would work as an apprentice machinist. Henry would remain in Detroit working and learning about all varieties of machines. Although he occasionally came back to visit Dearborn, he mostly stayed in ... machines, along with the dreaded farm chores. Henry Ford was a hard worker and that was proven by him getting fired from one of his jobs in Detroit because the older employees we"re mad at him because he was finishing his repairs in a half hour rather than the usual five...

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... innovator that wanted to see his ideas come to fruition. He would be unable to fulfill that by working at the Detroit Motor Company. Henry Ford quit his job at Detroit Motor Company, because the CEO believed that Ford's ideas would not be profitable, and believed that automobiles were a, " ... ;rich man's toy," that would not be wanted by the general public (Dammann 5). The CEO of the Detroit Motor Company believed that it was impossible for an automobile to be made cheap enough, for the general public to afford it. Even if they were ... interested in it, as gasoline was a rare commo...

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... workings of basic mechanical tools. In 1879, at a young age of 16, he left his home to travel to the near by city of Detroit to work as an apprentice for a machinist. He occasionally returned home to work on the farm. He remained an apprentice for three years and then ... returned to Dearborn. During the next few years, Henry divided his time between operating and repairing steam engines, finding occasional work in Detroit factories, and working on his fathers broken down farm equipment, as well as lending an unwilling hand with other farm work. Henry got married to ... manufactured mo...

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... age throughout his childhood. Mechanical things, rather than the traditional farm work, were more than intriguing to Ford. At 16, he moved to Detroit as an apprentice for a mechanic. At 19 he moved back home, and wasted away his days playing with broken steam engines and operating tractors ... in 1888, Ford run a sawmill as a source for steady income. Two years later, he found a job with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. His interest in internal combustion engines became so outstanding; he was promoted to Chief Engineer. This gave him enough money and time to devote most ... ...

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... Ford came from a small farm family, where he became an excellent self-taught mechanic. At the age of 16, Henry moved to Detroit to work at his first job as a mechanic. In 1891, Ford became head engineer at the Detroit Illuminating Company. He soon became constructing what would become his first car. In 1903 Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company, and ... standards which had not ever previously existed, such as attending work regularly, and having a moral private life. Henry Ford was an active philanthropist. He built a hospital for his employees in Detroit, and founded the "Ford Foun...

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... anything and everything Jewish. What was his affect on America as we know it? 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 ... 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 experi...

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... in mind it was not a surprise to Henry's parents that at 16 years old he would leave both school and farming behind and go to work in a machine shop in Detroit. This is where he would learn his trade and get more experience working on machines. He would do this for several years. Ford would then move back to the farm ... the farm. It was at this time that he meets his wife Clara Bryant. They were married in 1888. Within a few years Ford and his family moved back to Detroit so that he could take a very good job as the chief engineer with the Detroit Edison Company. It was during this tim...

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... and shock of his mother's death and went through life a loner. At 16, he left home to become an apprentice in the machine shop of the Drydock Engine Works in Detroit, which went against his father's wishes (Lacey 16). Henry worked for $2.50 a week as a mechanic. After three years, during which he came in contact with the internal-combustion engine for ... by side. It had thin bicycle wheels, a bicycle seat and a frame that was scarcely visible (Lacey 43). Seeing the strange little car coughing and wheezing along the narrow streets of Detroit, during the next few days, people would somet...

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... he decided to work for Westinghouse Steam Engines in southern Michigan. April 11, 1888, was a great day for Henry, because he married Clara J. Bryant. Mr. and Mrs. Ford moved to Detroit in 1891 to try and settle down. Then, in 1893 Henry was made chief engineer of the Edison Illuminating Company, which paid well. While he was working for them, in ... 1896, Henry built his first car which was a two cylinder lightweight carriage, called the "quadricycle". 1899 came, and Henry decided to resign from the Edison Illuminating Company to organize the Detroit Automobile Company. After two years...

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... Mary Ford. Ford went to school in a one-room schoolhouse along with helping his father with the harvest. He did not like school or farm life so he walked to Detroit at age 16 in search of a job. In 1888, Henry married Clara Bryant. Several years later he was made chief engineer at the ... Detroit Edison Company. The position allowed him time to experiment. He experimented with gasoline-powered vehicles and horse-less carriages before his first vehicle was completed. In 1896 the Quadricycle, a vehicle ... ...

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... the average person didn't even think about owning one. Ford was started its operations in a converted wagon factory Mack Avenue in Detroit, with only 10 staff. Just over one month of production and the first Ford was being delivered to a Detroit Doctor. Time went on and the model N, Fords most successful car early production car, was selling at $500. With the model ... ...

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... Daimler-Benz is the largest recorded automotive union in the history of automobile manufacturing. Since 1991, Daimler Chrysler Corporation has invested approximately $4 billion in new construction, renovation, and expansion in Detroit, MI. Daimler Chrysler is the largest corporate investor in the Empowerment Zone. The corporation employs over 13,000 individuals in the city and remains ... ...

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... had immigrated to America with his wife, Mary and bought a farm where Henry Ford grew up. When Henry Ford was 16, he left his home to find a job in Detroit. In Detroit, he was apprenticed to the owner of a small machine shop. During the apprenticeship, Ford spent his spare time designing his own automobiles. He used to build his own racing cars ... ...

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... took a very big step. The automotive industry was the largest industry there was. The assembly line made mass production possible, and the industry boomed. Henry Ford's assembly line, located in Detroit, Michigan, was the largest one in the country and possibly in the world. When Ford first started making cars, the only car he made was a black Model-T. Almost everybody in ... ...

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... to invent something new. He was very smart and actually went somewhere in life instead of staying at a farm milking cows. After he got sick of school, Henry moved to Detroit, hoping he could find a job. Imagine walking everywhere in the cold and in the brutal heat. We wouldn't stand a chance. But thanks to this brilliant young man, he took up ... ...

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... school just like most children in the 19th century. Soon Henry began to like mechanical things and dislike farming. In 1879, Henry left home at age 16. He walked to Detroit to be an apprentice mechanist, sometimes he would leave and help out at home. He stayed as an apprentice for three years, then he moved back to Dearborn. In 1888 ... ...

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... American industrialist, best known for his pioneering achievements in the automobile industry. Ford was born on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan and educated in district schools. He became a machinist's apprentice in Detroit at the age of 16. From 1888 to 1899 he was a mechanical engineer, and later chief engineer, with the Edison Illuminating Company. So from a young age Ford was interested in ... ...

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... never giving up on the projects he believed in. Henry Ford, becoming interested in mechanics at a young age, had developed a number of gasoline-powered "horseless carriages" by 1898. Although his Detroit Automobile Company failed, Ford kept at his work and by 1903, he had a new company formed and he had developed an efficient assembly line for production of his Model T Ford ... ...

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