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Posted on 8/3/2009
Blog: Time Machine, Three Trips: Where Would You Go? (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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  • Henry Ford established the Ford car company.
  • He was born on June 30, 1863 in Michigan.
  • His mother died in child birth when he was 12.
  • He got a watch for his 13th birthday, and took it apart to put it back together.
  • He liked bird-watching and dancing.
  • He got a job where he could work with boat motors in Detroit.
  • He got married to Clara Wright.
  • Ford built what he called a quadricycle, which was meant to look like two bicycles put together.
  • He started racing cars, then began the Ford company.
  • The first car sold from Ford was a Model A, sold to a dentist.
  • He wanted to make a car that could drive on dirt, and he succeeded with the Model T.  It was a very popular car, and he couldn’t build enough on time for everyone.
  • Men at Ford had to work all night.
  • Ford paid $5 a day so that other people would want to work there.
  • He eventually started making airplanes.
  • He also set up schools, because he loved kids.
  • The Model T became outdated, so Ford made a newer Model A.
  • The new Model A was successful.
  • Ford shut down the company so he could think of new cars, and a riot broke out and 5 men died.
  • People were drawn back to work again when Ford had an inspiration.
  • The working conditions in Ford were miserable.
  • A strike soon formed, and even his wife Clara was involved.
  • When Henry Ford died of a cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 83 on April 30, 1947
  • His oldest son, Ezel Ford, died of cancer in the stomach, liver, and other diseases, so his other son, Henry Ford II took over the Ford company.

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