How Does Henry Ford's Impact On Society

Good morning citizens of the United States. My name is Henry Ford, I was born on July 30, 1863 in a small farm town Greenfield Township, Michigan. As a teen I had knack for taking things apart and rebuilding it, often hopping from job to job as a farmer to an industrialist in the cities. By working my way up through the Edison Company in which I had acquired in my early twenties, I managed to create my own company some few years after; The Ford Motor Company. At The Ford Motor Company I developed and introduced the first mass produced automobile called the Model T. Why and how I am significant to the history was not only from my development of the first automobile but the effects that it had on America, in which revolutionized the way people
Here’s a quick description of the first automobile to over be mass produced. The Model T the first car was introduced to the public on October 1, 1908. It had the steering wheel on the left, which every other wannabe car company soon copied, not just the wheel but the general shape of the car. The car was very simple to drive, and easy and cheap to repair. It was so cheap at $825 in 1908 that by the 1920s. Since it was so cheap, due to the rapid production of the vehicles, it essentially meant that anyone could practically afford this car. Ranging from the lower class to the rich-upper class. Despite the distinct line between lower, middle, and upper class, these three social classes can have share something in common amongst one
This process was also soon adopted by other companies to increase their production rate as well. This in-turn offered a multitude of jobs for many people in these factories. These jobs weren’t just exclusive to automobile companies, the “Assembly Line” process was adopted by most factories in the Country. Instead of having a single individual work on one product, it would be a larger quantity of people working together to complete this single product. Thus increasing the production rate of whatever these particular factories produced. In addition to the creation of the huge multitude of jobs, this essentially stimulated, as a matter of fact, improved the economy for the