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2 days ago · Learn how Henry Ford built his first car, a small and light vehicle called a Quadricycle, in 1896 and took it for a spin in Detroit. See how he improved the design, launched the Ford Motor Company and sold the Quadricycle for $200.
23 hours ago · Edsel Ford (left), the only son of Henry Ford ... Ford received over 100,000 orders for the new car on the first day it began selling it from a public ravenous for a new car to buy, ...
3 days ago · It became the automobile capital of the world with the help of the manufacturer Henry Ford, who introduced the assembly line in 1914.
1 day ago · Commercial cars became widely available during the 20th century. One of the first cars affordable by the masses was the Ford Model T, begun in 1908, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. Cars were rapidly adopted in the US, where they replaced horse-drawn carriages.
5 days ago · Henry Ford revolutionised manufacturing and developed the first mass-produced car, ushering in the modern age and growing fabulously wealthy. By the early 1920s he was the world's richest person,...
5 days ago · Henry Ford was an American industrialist who revolutionized the automobile industry. Born on July 30, 1863, he founded the Ford Motor Company and introduced the Model T, making cars affordable for many people.
23 hours ago · In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. Ford's manufacturing—and those of automotive pioneers William C. Durant, Horace and John Dodge, James and William Packard, and Walter Chrysler—established Detroit's status in the early 20th century as the world's automotive capital.
