Henry Ford, the American who Revolutionized the automotive industry
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Henry Ford is one of the top American entrepreneurs who contributed to building the U.S. economy at the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a major revolution in the automotive world.
Ford was born on July 30, 1863, in Greenfield, Michigan, to an Irish father and a Belgian mother
He was known in his town for repairing watches and alarm clocks after leaving school at the age of 15 to work on his father's farm, but working in agriculture did not attract him, then he decided to work in a mechanics workshop in Detroit.
Furthermore, He returned to his town later and his father gave him 10 acres to start his own farm and with his dislike of farming it was most of the time he was trying to build a steam-powered vehicle and an agricultural vehicle.
Ford went on to work for Edison Illuminating in 1891 and rose to chief engineer in 1893, and after his promotion to Chief Engineer in 1893, he had enough time and money to devote attention to his experiments on gasoline engines. These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of a self-propelled vehicle, which he named the Ford Quadricycle.
Henry Ford resigned from Edison and founded Detroit Automobiles on August 5, 1899. However, the cars produced were of lower quality and higher price than required, and was dissolved in January 1901.
With the help of C. Harold Wills, Ford designed, built, and successfully raced a 26-horsepower automobile in October 1901. With this success, Murphy and other stockholders in the Detroit Automobile Company formed the Henry Ford Company on November 30, 1901, with Ford as chief engineer. In 1902, Murphy brought in Henry M. Leland as a consultant; Ford, in response, left the company bearing his name. With Ford gone, Leland renamed the company the Cadillac Automobile Company. Ford founded his car company in 1903, 5 years later he introduced Model Ts, which became half the number of cars in America in 1918, earning a profit of % 100.
Henry Ford gained great fame because of his evolving economic vision. He was able to develop a Model T vehicle so that most of the public could own it, and he was able to develop the business system in Ford's factories. One of his most remarkable achievements was the creation of the assembly manufacturing method in the 1920s, a process of manufacturing pathways intended to incorporate a step-by-step car structure, so that one worker stays in place and does one thing all the time in this way work has become faster, especially when workers are asked to make the thing to be manufactured.
Henry Ford left our world at the age of eighty-three on April 7, 1947, with a brain haemorrhage.
