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Henry Ford

Published on Nov 27, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

HENRY FORD

HENRY FORD FACTS

  • Henry was born July 30,1863
  • Henry was an inventor
  • When he was 16 he had moved to the nearby city and that city was Detroit
  • When he moved to Detroit he found a job as a machinist
  • He had worked there for a while then had to returned home to help work in the farm

HENRY AND CLARA

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FORD AND FAMILY

  • In 1888 he married a women named Clara Bryant
  • In 1891 ford and Clara moved back to Detroit wear he was hired as an engineer for Edison Illuminating company
  • With time flying quickly through the ranks, he was promoted to chief engineer two years later
  • At the same time as getting a promotion Clara had given birth to one wonderful little boy named Edsel Bryant Ford
  • In 1902 ford established a company named the Ford Motor Company wear the model-t was invented

MODEL-T

THE MODEL-T

  • A month after the Ford Motor Company was established, the first Ford car - the two-cylinder, eight-horsepower Model A—was assembled at a plant on Mack Avenue in Detroit.
  • Ford was dedicated to the production of an efficient and reliable automobile that would be affordable for everyone; the result was the Model T, which made its debut in October 1908.
  • Ford was very proud to call the automobile his own he was really happy that he had made an invention that will effect a lot of people
  • At the time the aoutomobil was built there were only a few cars being made per day
  • The cars that were being made we're hand made by only groups of two or three workers

THE CHAOS THAT WAS INVOLVED WITH THE MODEL-T

  • When the automobiles ad came out they became big really fast
  • There were so many orders for the automobile
  • There was so much orders that the company couldn't Handle it they had to work day and night to complete all the orders
  • As a result, he put into practice techniques of mass production that would revolutionize American industry, including the use of large production plants; standardized, interchangeable parts; and the moving assembly line
  • As a result of having mass that took down time to make the automobiles which was a result for the cost of the automobile had to stay low to keep the company alive

EDSEL FORD

EDSEL FORD FACTS

  • Edsel was Henry Fords son
  • When Henry opened his company he made Edsel the president of the company
  • Edsel enjoyed cars and enjoyed creating them
  • He also had other hobbies like photography, fast boats, painting and sports
  • Cars was his #1 hobby and it remained number one threw out his lifetime

FORD DIED April 7, 1947