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 and reassembled. Friends and neighbors were impressed, and requested that he fix their timepieces to. (2015, A&E Television Networks) Retrieved from http://www.history.com/topics/henry-ford
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Ford introduced the Model T in October of 1908, this model also known as the “Tin Lizzie” changed the way Americans live, work and travel.(2016, A&E Television Networks) Henry Ford’s revolutionary advancements in assembly line automobile manufacturing made the Model T the first car to be affordable for a majority of Americans. For the first time car ownership became a reality for average American workers not just the wealthy.(2016, A&E Television Networks)
More than 15 million Model Ts were built in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan, and the automobile was also assembled at a Ford plant in Manchester, England, and at plants in continental Europe. For several years, the company posted 100 percent gains. However more than for his profits Ford became renowned for his revolutionary vision the manufacture of an inexpensive automobile made by skilled workers who earn steady wages.(2016, A&E Television Networks) He completely despised the wealthy “even though he was the among wealthiest man in america”.(A&E Television …show more content…
Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal called the four-cylinder fifteen horsepower $600 Ford Model N (1906-1907) the very first instance of a low cost motorcar driven by a gas engine having cylinders enough to give the shaft a turning impulse in each shaft turn which is well built and offered in large numbers. Deluged with orders Ford installed improved production equipment and after 1906 was able to make deliveries of a hundred cars a day. (Hall Association in Philadelphia, 2008) Affects Americans experienced traffic jams for the first time, as well as traffic accidents and fatalities. Soon demands were made for licensure and safety regulation on the state level. Despite the drawbacks, Americans loved their cars. As more and more were purchased, drivers saw their worlds grow much larger.(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1991) Others Although Ford’s industry that he built was the best and really what launched this whole craze and really kicked it off. It was not the only automotive industry that has made risks that paid off big time. As a matter of fact the blueprint for the modern automobile was perfected in Germany and France in the late 1800s, so we weren’t even the one who perfected
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 and reassembled. Friends and neighbors were impressed, and requested that he fix their timepieces to. (2015, A&E Television Networks) Retrieved from http://www.history.com/topics/henry-ford
Unsatisfied with farm …show more content…
Ford introduced the Model T in October of 1908, this model also known as the “Tin Lizzie” changed the way Americans live, work and travel.(2016, A&E Television Networks) Henry Ford’s revolutionary advancements in assembly line automobile manufacturing made the Model T the first car to be affordable for a majority of Americans. For the first time car ownership became a reality for average American workers not just the wealthy.(2016, A&E Television Networks)
More than 15 million Model Ts were built in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan, and the automobile was also assembled at a Ford plant in Manchester, England, and at plants in continental Europe. For several years, the company posted 100 percent gains. However more than for his profits Ford became renowned for his revolutionary vision the manufacture of an inexpensive automobile made by skilled workers who earn steady wages.(2016, A&E Television Networks) He completely despised the wealthy “even though he was the among wealthiest man in america”.(A&E Television …show more content…
Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal called the four-cylinder fifteen horsepower $600 Ford Model N (1906-1907) the very first instance of a low cost motorcar driven by a gas engine having cylinders enough to give the shaft a turning impulse in each shaft turn which is well built and offered in large numbers. Deluged with orders Ford installed improved production equipment and after 1906 was able to make deliveries of a hundred cars a day. (Hall Association in Philadelphia, 2008) Affects Americans experienced traffic jams for the first time, as well as traffic accidents and fatalities. Soon demands were made for licensure and safety regulation on the state level. Despite the drawbacks, Americans loved their cars. As more and more were purchased, drivers saw their worlds grow much larger.(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1991) Others Although Ford’s industry that he built was the best and really what launched this whole craze and really kicked it off. It was not the only automotive industry that has made risks that paid off big time. As a matter of fact the blueprint for the modern automobile was perfected in Germany and France in the late 1800s, so we weren’t even the one who perfected