... 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 ... a tiller, like a boat. It had two forward speeds, and no reverse. Although this was not the first self-propelled vehicle, it set Henry Ford as one of the major pioneers whom helped this nation become one of motorists. Ford decided that he wanted to become an automobile manufactur...

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... of World War II this plant had manufactured more than 8000 planes. Ford supplied a lot of our war effort in World War II. Without Henry Ford we might have lost in World War II. Ford did many important things other then work with automobiles. Ford paved the way for future ... automobile productions. He created the model T, a car that average people could afford and drive. He created the assembly line, which is still used in manufacturing automobiles today. It boosts production speed and makes peoples jobs a lot less ... opened his own hospital! Using 1.7 million dollars he opened a hosp...

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