Early Automobiles

Henry Ford was by far one of the largest inventors of the Industrial Revolution. His most important invention, the automobile, changed life as we know it. It enabled people to go wherever they wanted whenever they wanted. The automobile modernize the transportation industry entirely. Today people don’t often think of how things used to be. One man changed the world as we know it, that one man is Henry Ford.

               Henry Ford was born on July 30th on his parent’s farm in Dearborn Michigan. Henry always had an interest in working with machines. He eventually gained a job in a Detroit machine shop, which gave him many opportunities to research. He was later employed as a part time worker for the Westinghouse Engine Company. This gave him the early experience that played a key role in his life and what he was to become and the things he would create.

At the age of 19, Henry became a certified machinist. Later, he met his wife, and settled down on a piece of land on the family farm in Dearborn. His wife, Clara Bryant, him in every way to keep moving forward with his ideas. Henry eventually began work on his first engine; when his design was satisfactory, he moved his shop into a shed and began to work on his first Quadricycle. The Quadricycle was one of Henry’s first car like creations; it was an open top contraption ran by a small engine and steered by a horizontal lever. When it was finally complete he proudly drove it out of the shed. Henry tried twice and to make a automobile company and failed. On the third time he succeeded as the Ford automobile company invented in 1908 came out with the first automobile. The model T. The model T cost $450. Even with this low price Ford managed to profit.