Automotive pioneer Henry ... Cars built of steel derive much of their strength from the welded steel panels that are attached to the chassis. With plastic panels, this isn't possible. So Ford ...

Henry Ford was focused on automobiles and building engines, leading to his first car, known as the Quadricycle ... Ford was the last major American carmaker to sign a contract with the United ...

We talked about its impact last fall as he and I walked through ... The room is small — about the size of a two-car garage. Henry Ford had a rocking chair in one corner where he spent hours ...

Henry Ford's parents left Ireland ... the rich or do-it-yourself engineers. In 1899 Ford left Edison to help run the Detroit Automobile Company. Cars were still built essentially one at a time.

The Model T, first produced in 1908, kept the same design until the last one ... and buy his cars. Ford's manufacturing principles were adopted by countless other industries. Henry Ford went ...