After three years, during which he came in contact with the internal-combustion engine for the first time, he returned to the farm where he worked part- time for the Westinghouse Engine Company (Britannica 403). .
In 1884, he moved back to manage his father's 40-acre farm where he met his wife, Clara Bryant. They were married in 1888, and on November 6, 1893 she gave birth to their only child, Edsel Bryant Ford. In his spare time, Ford built his first car in a little machine shed behind his home. He called his car the Quadricycle, which was exactly what it looked like, two bicycles side by side. It had thin bicycle wheels, a bicycle seat and a frame that was scarcely visible (Lacey 43). Seeing the strange little car coughing and wheezing along the narrow streets of Detroit, during the next few days, people would sometimes yell out the .
nickname his obsessive drive to build a horseless carriage had earned Ford - "Crazy Henry!" (Collier 11).
In 1899, Ford helped set up the Detroit Automobile Company, which built cars to order, mainly for the rich. Ford wanted to build in quantity, but at a price that was affordable to all. His partners objected with Ford, and he withdrew.
Then in 1903 he organized another company called The Ford Motor Company. All told, Henry Ford arm-twisted $28,000 in cash to forge a union of men, money and ideas that would soon become Americas prime model of the free enterprise system - The Ford Motor Company (Sorensen 24).
Mass production was Ford's main idea, and he wanted to replace men with machines wherever possible. In 1913, Ford began using standardized interchangeable parts and assembly-line techniques in his plant. Each man was given only one task, which he did repeatedly until it became automatic. Conveyors brought the job to the man instead of having the man waste time going to the job (Compton's 306). Although Ford neither originated nor was the first to employ such practices, he was chiefly responsible for their general adoption and for the consequent great expansion of America industry and the raising of the American standard of living (Microsoft Corporation).
Those men were so much braver than Henry, the coward who ran. ... Henry had made mistakes and learned from them. ... This time Henry did not run. Instead he fought like a crazy man. ... Henry had to go through the shame and guilt of this all. ...
Henry Bibb was crazy for girls. ... Henry could not help but to fall in love with Malinda. ... Then Henry Bibb was sold to a new owner which separated him and his family apart. Henry goes back after his family so many times because he loves them. ... This is the reason why Henry gave up on attempting to rescue his family. ...
Henry's expression is forced with shadows on his face as "deep as holes" (Endrich 481). ... Then Henry said, "he"d fixed it just to give it back and he should take it" (Endrich 481). ... Henry wants Lyman to keep it, knowing that he no longer wants to live and has no use for it. ... He had tried so hard to save Henry, the least he could do is give him his car. ... There is no turning back, Henry knows the time is right, and he begins a crazy man's dance. ...
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms portrays a tragic romance between Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. ... They begin their relationship as a shallow escape; however, as time passes by, Henry's relationship with Barkley gradually blooms into something that becomes valued rather than a brief getaway. ... When she starts to meet Frederic often, Frederic shows affection and tells her that "[He] really love[s] her crazy about her " (88). ... This encounter with war has shaped Catherine into a submissive and "good wife " to Henry in the future. ... This is a turning point in the n...
I will tell you how Henry and I are the same. ... During the battle, hennery went crazy and just couldn't stop from shooting at nothing! All of the enemy had retreated and that wasn't enough for Henry to stop. ... Henry went absolutely crazy and just went psycho shooting at things that weren't even there, it took his friends to finally calm him down and stop shooting. ... Henry found himself not running in the end and becoming a hero. ...
In The Gods Must be Crazy, Jamie Uys illustrates the harmful introduction of the "evil thing" to Bushmen culture, but she also exposes the profound ripples that technology imprints on modern societies. ... In The Gods Must be Crazy, the Bushmen were originally pleased with the coke bottle (God's gift) because they found many uses for it. ... In The Gods Must be Crazy, the Bushmen are obviously the losers. ... In The Gods Must be Crazy, Kate assumed that Andrew was trying to harm/attack her when he was, in fact, trying to evade the rhino. ... Henry David Thoreau believes, "All ou...
Henry is serving in the Italian army because the United States has not yet entered the war. ... Lieutenant Henry is out one night during a battle and an Austrian bombardment badly wounds his knee. ... When Lieutenant Henry is ordered back to the front, Catherine tells him she is three months pregnant. ... Lieutenant Henry has never loved a woman before he meets Catherine Barkley. ... This becomes evident when he deserts the army and tries to keep himself from thinking of her, "I could remember Catherine but I knew I would get crazy if I thought about her when I was not sure yet that I woul...
I agree with John Henry Newman, who is the author of "The Idea of a University", with what he wrote about a university education is true. ... According to John Henry Newman a student can learn about the subjects that they did not take from their peers. ... The people who think that way are crazy. ...
Henry Ford changed all that. ... Henry Ford Henry Ford was a genius in many aspects of our everyday life. ... Also Henry Ford has changed the perspective of industries around the world. ... Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, on a farm a few miles from Detroit. As a boy Henry was very creative and liked to work with tools. ...
