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    Henry Ford Launched the era of the mass-produced automobile. He used machines such as the assembly line to make production faster then ever before. Ford founded the Ford Motor Car Company, which remained as one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world into the 1990s. Because of this he entrepreneur jump started the automobile industry. The inventor illuminated the world by making it easy to get a car, thus the car is a staple of modern life. Due to this he is regarded as one of the…

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    Henry Ford was an American inventor who was born on July 30, 1830. Today, some people credit Ford with being one of America’s most important inventors of all time. Furthermore, he was able to acquire this title by inventing the Ford Model T automobile on October 1, 1908. It was this single creation that changed America forever. Henry Ford’s automobile changed travel in America forever. Before cars, people would mostly travel by use of carriage wagons, and bicycles. Eventually, people used…

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    Henry Ford was one of the men who revolutionized the United States in many ways. He was born on July 30, 1863 in greenfield township, Michigan he married Clara Jane Bryant in 1888. Henry ford founded the ford motor company in 1903, he revolutionized the use of automobiles by creating cars that not only the upper class could afford but also the middle class of Americans. This caused automobiles to be a more common commodity among most all Americans. Again in 1913 Henry Ford revolutionized the…

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    cars but not many. How would this happen? Well a guy called Henry Ford created the Model T car and revolutionized america with them. Henry Ford revolutionized America with his cars, his youth affected his work, despite being anti-semite he really changed America. How he revolutionized America Henry Ford’s cars revolutionized America by being affordable for most people and was easy to create when he made assembly lines. His first model T car was widely used across America in the early 1900s and…

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    Henry Ford was not the first person to create to assembly line. The first car to be made using the assembly line was the Oldsmobile Curved Dash. According to Ford in My Life and Work the assembly line should have the following principals. "(1) Place the tools and the men in the sequence of the operation so that each component part shall travel the least possible distance while in the process of finishing. (2) Use work slides or some other form of carrier so that when a workman completes his…

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    pioneers. To accomplish his goal, Ford realized he would have to increase productivity—producing more output (goods and services) with less input (resources) or a combination of these two possibilities. He and his team looked at other industries and found strategies that would further this objective. They adopted these ideas to the Model T and ultimately, revolutionized industrial production. Inspired by the meat processing factories in Chicago, Ford decided to create an…

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    Henry Ford was the leader in the production of cars. The most popular automobile at the time was the Model T because it was very inexpensive and was something no American had ever seen. Every American wanted this luxury item causing the demand for it to skyrocket. Mass production caused the automobile to increase the demand of other goods that were needed to build the automobile. Steel, glass, paint, rubber, and everything else needed to build a sturdy car became in great demand as well. Ford…

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    Henry Ford Essay Henry Ford was a prodigious inventor and mechanic. He was born on the 30th of July, 1863, on his family farm near the Wayne County in Dearborn, Michigan. He revolutionised the car industry forever by making the assembly line that is still in use today. He also made one of the most dominant and impressive car company of all time. Along with all the cars he designed and created he also made a city in the Amazon! Henry Ford perfectly demonstrated the quality of leadership and…

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    The beginning This whole industry really kicked off with Henry Ford, an entrepreneur that took the necessary risks to make a car that was not only affordable but that was mechanically sound as well. Born on July 30, 1863, near Dearborn, Michigan into a middle class agrarian family Henry found the farm work to be tedious he decides to invent new ingenuitive machines to make the work easier. When Ford was 13 years old, his father gifted him a pocket watch, which the young boy promptly took apart…

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    Henry Ford is commonly associated as the man who invented both the automobile and the assembly line, however, the actual inventors of these devices are Karl Benz and Ransom E. Olds, respectively. Nonetheless, Ford can be attributed with the modifications to the production of the car and the assembly line that made them successful. Unsatisfied with a life of farming, Henry Ford became an apprentice to a mechanic and his career as an engineer only grew from that point on. In the 1940’s, despite…

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