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What Influence Did Henry Ford Have On 1920s America?
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Simon Addison What Influence Did Henry Ford Have On 1920s America? Henry Ford was born in Dearborn, Michigan on July 30th, 1863. His family were farmers, but from a young age Ford was driven by ideas of the American Dream and industrialisation, and so left school at 16 and moved to Detroit to become a machinist's apprentice. During his time as a mechanical engineer he became interested in the idea of automobiles, and by 1893, after much experimentation, he completed his first motorcar. In 1903, Ford founded his own company, the Ford Motor Company at Highland Park in Detroit (which would later become known as "motor city"). By 1908, Ford was producing 100 cars a day by basic mass-production methods used in many industries. Ford had teams of 12 men, each attaching a part to a car in order to make a finished model. Ford had released a new model of car, the...
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