2. Child hood
• Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863
• He had six siblings he was the oldest of them
• In 1879 he was 16 and left home to work as an
engineer
3. Young engineer
• He worked in the city of Detroit as a
apprentice machinist
• Henry Divided his time between operating or
repairing steam engines and received $2.50 a
week doing so. He married Clara Bryant in
1888 and supported himself and his wife by
running a saw mill
4. First car
• In 1896 with the competition of his own he
built a self propelled vehicle the Quadricycle.
• The car had four wire wheels and was steered
with a tiller like a boat
• It had only two forward speeds and no
reverse. It had two cylinders and was a 4 cycle
motor.
5. Ford motor Co.
• The Ford Motor Co. was incorporated in 1903
with Henry as Vice President and Chief
engineer. The young company was only able to
produce a few cars a day.
6. Assembly line
• Ford combined precision and speed when
manufacturing cars by creating the Assembly line
in 1913.
• It was a continuously moving line where workers
remained on place adding one component to
each automobile as it moved past them on a line.
• Delivery of parts by conveyor belt to the workers
was carefully timed to keep the assembly line
moving smoothly and efficently.
7. Great depression
• “He fell under the spell of Harry Bennett, a
notorious figure with connections to
organized crime, who, as head of Ford's
security department, influenced every phase
of company operations and created friction
between Ford and his son Edsel”.
8. The model T
• The introduction of the model T in 1910 was
an instant hit. By 1918 over half the cars in
America were model T’s.
• It was sold for $850 and came in only black.
9. Henry ford dies
• Ford’s Grandson, Henry Ford II Took over the
company after WWI.
• Henry Ford died on April 7th 1947
10. Work Cited Page
• http://thebsreport.wordpress.com/2009/06/0
4/today-in-history-june-4th/henry-ford-i-
quadricycle/
• Henry Ford Biography - life, children, story,
school, son, old, information, born, time, year
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-
Gi/Ford-Henry.html#ixzz14ijo6Rf4
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T
