Henry's ancestors came to Michigan from Ireland in hope of a new life in a New World. His parents, William and Mary found success in America, unfortunately Mary died a tragic death after complications of the birth of her eighth child (Lacey 11). At the young age of fourteen Henry is already interested in industry and mechanics, he sees his first steam engine that gave him newfound enthusiasm to continue with his interest. Without hesitation Henry immediately gets out into the exciting working world and starts his own business with friend James Flower in 1879 called the James Flower And Brother Machine Shop. Soon moving to Detroit, Henry uses his skills from his company to get hired at the Detroit Dry Dock Company where he meets a major inspiration, a construction engineer by the name of Frank Kirby (Lacey 24). Kirby taught Henry to "Stick in his toenails" and to work hard

The original production time at Ford's Highland Park plant for a Model T was twelve and a half man-hours. Normally in Ford's factories men moved around to perform different operations upon completing a vehicle. This process required skilled workers that were able to know almost the complete mechanics of the entire automobile, and was a very lengthy was of producing a car. Ford proposed a method of production in which the workers were stationary and performed only one single operation multiple times. The workers need not be highly skilled because they only needed to know how to do their own simple operation. Not only did this require less training for the workers but saved large amounts of time in the production of Ford's automobiles. This method was officially named the assembly line and test units were developed and tested to see the improvement in production time. Soon a crude moving line was set up and production time dropped to five hours and fifty minutes, a large improvement (Lacey 116). Henry Ford himself defines the term assembly line the best, " The man who places a part does not fasten it, The man who puts in a bolt does not put on the nut, the man who puts on the nut does not tighten it" (Lacey 117). Finally in late 1914 his assembly line was complete and production time dropped to an astonishing ninety three minutes, the "people's car" could now be made for the people quickly. The Highland Park plants production numbers more than doubled with while actually using fewer workers. The cost and time required to produce a Model T chassis were dropping fast as Ford's genius idea of the assembly line was installed in more of Ford's factories.

Ford's new process saved the factory time and the consumers money, a step that allowed lower class consumers the ability to afford a quality Ford automobile at a smaller price. Orders for the Model T continued to roll in and now they continued to roll out of the factory at the same speed. Ford had struck upon the right way of mass production and is now an industry standard among automotive manufacturers.

Influenced by the Model N, Henry Ford was only one step away from designing his greatest success, the Model T. After a long development process including dedicated designers such as Charles E. Scrersen helped make the Model T a hit. In October 1908 the Model T went on the consumer market and was a huge success. The Model T sold for around 850 dollars at the time of its release, and its appeal was in its sturdiness thanks to its Vandium Steel and its power and value for the money. The Model T invented the true meaning of the word production car, it was the first to be mass-produced and every one of them was sold. The Model T was pushed to be the farmers friend and was extremely reliable, it kept out the dust, rain and because of its new suspension people were not able to drive on non paved roads, people took their Model T's anywhere and everywhere they could (Lacey 94). But more important than anything people actually loved their Model T's; many thought of it as part of the family and took impeccable care of their cars. S

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