Many amazing things happened during the Industrial Revolution, but one of my favorite things that happened was the invention of the Model T and eventually the Model A. The inventor that made these things was Henry Ford. When he was a kid, he used to take apart watches, to find how they worked then put them back together, when he was 13 he was a watch repairman he didn't want to stop there. When his mom died, he left the farm he lived in, he said that he never liked farm work, just the mom that worked on the farm. He moved to Detroit to work on steam engines, this whole time he was working, he was also reading books and studying, this prepared him for the rest of his life. A couple years later he moved back to Dearborn, to become an engineer.
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Then he was able to meet Thomas Edison, once he showed Edison his car and he approved of it, he worked harder than ever. He finally made his first car that he wanted to sell, but the prices were too high and he wasn't happy with it, so he shut Detroit Atoumobile Company down. He waited, he found ways to make the car cheaper, such as plastics for the roof. Eventually someone thought that his vehicle was worth it, so they became partners, and this gave Henry $160,000 dollars worth of …show more content…
After many hours of hard work he developed the Model T. Then there was trouble when people weren't buying and his partners wanted their pay. Eventually things worked out, and people started buying the Model T, they bought it because it was cheap and easy to repair, once all of this happened Ford became one if the richest men ever. All of his workers also loved him, because they got paid $5 dollars a day, $120 a day, and they had 5 day workweeks. Ford was also credited with making the assembly line, a faster way of making things, all of the workers specialized in their own item, then they would make their own parts and then it would go down a conveyor, to the next person who would add to it to make a car. Eventually the Model T stopped selling, and he was forced to make a newer, Better model, the Model A, It got good sales just like the Model T had. Later in Ford's life, he gave the company to his son and made a newspaper that over 700,000 people would read every time he made a new one, so not only was he an engineer, he was a newspaper writer
Then he was able to meet Thomas Edison, once he showed Edison his car and he approved of it, he worked harder than ever. He finally made his first car that he wanted to sell, but the prices were too high and he wasn't happy with it, so he shut Detroit Atoumobile Company down. He waited, he found ways to make the car cheaper, such as plastics for the roof. Eventually someone thought that his vehicle was worth it, so they became partners, and this gave Henry $160,000 dollars worth of …show more content…
After many hours of hard work he developed the Model T. Then there was trouble when people weren't buying and his partners wanted their pay. Eventually things worked out, and people started buying the Model T, they bought it because it was cheap and easy to repair, once all of this happened Ford became one if the richest men ever. All of his workers also loved him, because they got paid $5 dollars a day, $120 a day, and they had 5 day workweeks. Ford was also credited with making the assembly line, a faster way of making things, all of the workers specialized in their own item, then they would make their own parts and then it would go down a conveyor, to the next person who would add to it to make a car. Eventually the Model T stopped selling, and he was forced to make a newer, Better model, the Model A, It got good sales just like the Model T had. Later in Ford's life, he gave the company to his son and made a newspaper that over 700,000 people would read every time he made a new one, so not only was he an engineer, he was a newspaper writer