In the year of 1903 the Ford Motor Company was founded and created by a man name Henry Ford, who from an early age had a love for creating and building machinery. His eye in detail and ideas helped shaped Ford to create one of the Americans earliest favorite vehicles. While searching into his background, Ford has had many ups and down to create the perfect automobile for the public and quite a bit of resistance from people who had invested or backed him up over ideas he had; which seemed over the top at the time. But sticking through with his plans, he was able to achieve the goals he wanted all the way to the very end of his life. Ford was a master at creating cars and his name will be forever be imprinted in history as the one of many earliest car makers by creating one of the cheapest and loved cars for Americans, the
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Once married, he had to briefly return home to do some farming so he could support his newly made family. Until a few years went by, he was hired at another job, as an engineer for the Edison illuminating company. While working as chief engineer at Edison, Ford was in charge of keeping the Detroit city power flowing so that left him on call twenty-four hours a day. However, with no real working regular hours at the time and on his own free time, he would work away at his goal of trying to build a gasoline power vehicle. In 1893 while working at Edison, Ford was able to build his first gasoline powered horseless carriage or as he called it, a quadricycle: which looked like a mini horse carriage.
During the summer days of 1898, and after four years run Ford had created his third car, Model T, which was a more advance model of the quadricycle. For the latest Model T included a water tank along with breaks. At the time Ford and William C Maybury: who was Detroit mayor and Fords investor, helped to create a Detroit automobile company in August
Once married, he had to briefly return home to do some farming so he could support his newly made family. Until a few years went by, he was hired at another job, as an engineer for the Edison illuminating company. While working as chief engineer at Edison, Ford was in charge of keeping the Detroit city power flowing so that left him on call twenty-four hours a day. However, with no real working regular hours at the time and on his own free time, he would work away at his goal of trying to build a gasoline power vehicle. In 1893 while working at Edison, Ford was able to build his first gasoline powered horseless carriage or as he called it, a quadricycle: which looked like a mini horse carriage.
During the summer days of 1898, and after four years run Ford had created his third car, Model T, which was a more advance model of the quadricycle. For the latest Model T included a water tank along with breaks. At the time Ford and William C Maybury: who was Detroit mayor and Fords investor, helped to create a Detroit automobile company in August