How Was Henry Ford Influential

Henry Ford: An Influential Figure From the days of Leonardo Da Vinci until the days of Karl Benz, many cars models were introduced. Steam, electric, and gasoline models were invented. No one knows to whom exactly lays the credit of inventing the automobile, but on the other hand, no one doesn’t know the Ford Model T car.When “the time production ceased for the Model T in 1927, more than 15 million cars had been sold --or half the world's output” (Lacocca, 1998). All this industrial glory was because of one man, Henry Ford. I believe that Henry Ford was an influential person who left his fingerprints in the world of automobile industry because of his technological, industrial, and social innovations. Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan. “He left …show more content…
The car wasn’t a dream after all and was affordable to every worker. But what really characterizes Ford’s contribution to society is not only his building to cars but “he was responsible for transforming the automobile from an invention of unknown utility into an innovation that profoundly shaped the 20th century and continues to affect the 21st” (Casey, J. Dodge, & H. Dodge, 2010). Before Ford, people were not really sure about the new invention. They weren’t encouraged to buy and use automobiles. First, they were ambiguous; costumers didn’t know what how to deal with them. Secondly, cars were expensive, and few had the ability to buy an automobile. Well, Ford with his model T changed “the deep confusion about what automobiles were for” (Casey, J. Dodge, & H. Dodge, 2010). His cleverness in manufacturing, introducing, pricing and marketing his automobiles answered the question: “At stake were not only the forms motor vehicle technology would take, but also the social ends it would serve. How, where and with what effects should people use the new machines?” (Casey, J. Dodge, & H. Dodge,