Henry Ford, a perfect Business man and Automobile Engineer

   A man who was failed in his early businesses and left him broke five times before he founded the successful company. This man was the world famous business man and engineer, who is known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars even today. He is Henry Ford and his Ford Motor Company.
   Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 on a Michigan farm. Henry Ford spent his childhood on his family's farm, located just outside of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. When Henry was twelve, his mother died. After the death of his mother, Henry had a strained relationship with his father. His father hoped that Henry would someday take over the family farm. But Henry Ford preferred to be an engineer.  
   From an early age, Henry Ford loved to take things apart and put them back together again just to see how they worked. Especially adept at doing this with watches, his neighbors and friends would bring him their broken watches to fix. Although good with watches, Henry's passion was machines. Henry Ford believed that machines could change the life of a farmer by replacing farm animals. At age 16, Henry Ford left the farm to take a learner ship as a machinist in Detroit. In the years that followed, Henry Ford would learn to skillfully operate and service steam engines, and would also study bookkeeping.
   In 1882, Henry Ford finished his apprenticeship and was thus a complete machinist. Westinghouse hired Henry Ford to demonstrate and operate their steam engines on nearby farms during the summers. During the winters, Henry Ford stayed on his father's farm, attentively working on building a lighter steam engine. 
   It was during this time that Henry Ford met Clara Ala Bryant. Henry's father gave him a large piece of land on which he built a small house, a sawmill and a shop to tinker in.
   In 1888, Henry Ford married Clara Ala Bryant and briefly returned to farming to support his wife and son, Edsel Ford. Three years later, he was hired as an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company.
   Henry Ford left his farm life when he and his wife moved back to Detroit in 1891, so that he could learn more about electricity by working at the Edison Illuminating Company. Henry Ford worked on building a gasoline engine ignited by electricity in this time, 4 June, 1896. At that time he was 32 years of age, completed his first successful horseless carriage, which he called the Quadricycle.
  Within the same year, he attended a meeting with Edison executives and found himself presenting his automobile plans to Edison Illuminating Company. The lighting genius encouraged Henry Ford to build a second and better model.
   After two unsuccessful attempts to establish a company to manufacture automobiles, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer. The infant company produced only a few cars a day at the Ford factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies.
   Henry Ford realized his dream of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient with the introduction of the Model T in October of 1908. This vehicle initiated a new era in personal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads, immediately becoming a huge success. For several years, the company posted 100 percent gains. However, more than for his profits, Henry Ford became renowned for his revolutionary vision: the manufacture of an inexpensive automobile made by skilled workers who earn steady wages.

   In 1914, Henry Ford sponsored the development of the moving assembly line technique of mass production. Simultaneously, he introduced the $5-per-day wage ($110 in 2011) as a method of keeping the best workers loyal to his company. Simple to drive and cheap to repair, half of all cars in America in 1918 were Model T’s.
   The introduction of the moving assembly line in Ford Motor Company revolutionized automobile production by significantly reducing assembly time per vehicle, thus lowering costs. Ford's production of Model Ts made his company the largest automobile manufacturer in the world.
   The Ford Motor company began construction of the world's largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan, during the late 1910s and early 1920s. The massive Rouge Plant included all the elements needed for automobile production. There was also including a steel mill, glass factory, and automobile assembly line inside the plant. By September 1927, all steps in the manufacturing process from refining raw materials to final assembly of the automobile took place at the vast Rouge Plant, characterizing Henry Ford's idea of mass production.
   For decades, Henry Ford and his only son, Edsel Ford, worked together at the Ford Motor Company. Their vision was how the Ford Motor Company would progressively grew and how the Ford Motor Company should be run.
   Edsel Ford died from stomach cancer in 1943, at age 49. In 1938 and again in 1941, Henry Ford suffered strokes. On April 7, 1947, four years after Edsel Ford's death, Henry Ford passed away at age 83.