Henry Ford was born on a farm in Dearborn, Michigan in 1863. He enjoyed tinkering with machines from a young age. After working as an engineer, he completed his first car called the Quadricycle and drove it through Detroit. He then left his job to focus on automobile manufacturing. By 1914, Ford had revolutionized manufacturing through innovative techniques at his plant, which could produce a complete chassis every 93 minutes, a major improvement over the earlier time of 728 minutes. He also began paying his employees $5 per day, nearly doubling wages, and cut the work day to 8 hours.