Thanks to the assembly-line technology that made it affordable, Ford's Model T dominated American car sales in the early 20th ...

One hundred years after Henry Ford reshaped the automotive industry with the assembly line, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is doing much the same for electric cars. Musk is a once-in-a-generation figure ...

Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato ... In 1899 Ford left Edison to help run the Detroit Automobile Company. Cars were still built essentially one at a time. Ford hoped to ...

In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...