How Did Henry Ford Contribute To Manufacturing

Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. According to History.com (2009) Henry Ford, born in 1862, was the first surviving son to William and Mary Ford. His father owned a farm in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry received a watch from his father in 1876 showing an interest in mechanics. Three years after his mother passed away during childbirth, Henry left school with a sixth grade education. In that same year he left home for the nearby city, of Detroit. While in Detroit he found beginner work as a machinist. His first job in Detroit, he got fired from after six days. He then got another job in Detroit which paid him less
The first Model T, also known as or referred to as the “Tin Lizzie”, rolled out of the factory in 1908 twelve years after he built the Quadricycle in a shed behind his house. The “Tin Lizzie” would change the way America and eventually the whole world lived, traveled, and worked. The Quadricycle was his first “...gasoline-powered horseless carriage...”(History.com). Five years Ford had manufactured the Model T, he would bring together his ideas for a moving assembly line for cars. This assembly line would be the first one in the world. That next year Henry would raise the wages for his workers to five dollars for eight hours, which was considered a full days work. Before he raised the income that his workers would be receiving, they all were getting paid $2.34 for nine hours. Which History.comn(2009) said was “...setting a standard for the industry.” (p.1). The money that the employees would be earning in 1914 would be equal to one-hundred and ten dollars in 2011. In 1927, fourteen years after he constructed the first Model T, Ford decided that he was going to move his workers and his plant into a bigger and upgraded factory that included a glass and steel mill and an assembly line that was built on the banks of a river in Dearborn, Michigan. The same year that Henry and his employees vacated to a new location, would be the same year that he stopped the production of the Model T, and began and introduced the Model A. The Model A featured better horsepower and brakes and many other improvements that would make the Model A better more upgraded than the Model T. By the time that the Model A was introduced Ford Motor Company had sold almost fifteen million cars, which would make his production one of the largest