Invention Of The Model T Essay

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. But he didn't want to stop there, when his mom died he left the farm he lived at, 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. When he got promoted to the chief engineer he had more time to work on gasoline engines also. This allowed him to gain a lot of knowledge of how a gas engine works. Then he decided that would build his own, he made a little cart and put a small gas engine on it, then once he tested it and rode it around he decided that he would not stop there, he would keep working on it, and make a real car like this. …show more content…
Then he was able to meet Thomas Edison, once he showed Edison his car and he approved of it, he worked harder then 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 that 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