1. The Influence of Henry Ford
When asked to think about the beginning of the automobile industry many people believe that Henry Ford's 1908 Model T was the first automobile designed and made. However, it is not the case, back in the 1880's they were other companies designing and building automobiles, but no one remembers them as well. The reason Henry Ford and his Model T get the recognition is due to the process in which the Ford Company went about building their automobiles.
The first automobiles were being designed and built as early as 1887 by a Paris machine-tool company, Panhard et Levassor. Today P&L is only remembered by classic car collectors, however in 1984 it was the leading car company. It started in 1887 when Emile Levassor, met Gottlieb Daimler. Levassor negotiated a license to manufacture the new "high-speed" gasoline engine produced by Daimler. By the early 1890's, P&L could build several hundred automobiles in a year. The simple car with the engine at the front, passengers in rows behind and the motor driving the rear wheels. P&L's workforce was composed of skilled craftsmen who carefully hand-built every car. Every panel was hand shaped, every seat hand sewn. Every automobile was basically a prototype. By 1905, not even twenty years since P&L produced the first commercially successful automobile, hundreds of companies across Western Europe and North America were building automobiles in small quantities using special craft techniques. However, this technique of constructing automobiles couldn"t last as the demand for cars become larger and the skill levels of the craftsman dropped in the hurry to produce the automobile faster. .
It was then in 1908, that Henry Ford came along and changed the manufacturing process for ever. "I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise.
He revolutionized the business world and he changed forever the efficiency of factories around the world. One of the reasons that Henry Ford can be considered such an important man is that his ideas and concepts are still used today. ... Henry would remain in Detroit working and learning about all varieties of machines. ... Think of what the world would be like if Henry had stayed on as a farmer. ... The effect that Henry Ford left on American factories and business was important and everlasting....
Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor company in 1903. ... This new Fordism changed the economic word drastically. ... It is because of fordism that the world grew. ... Henry Ford showed that properly used, the assembly line could reduce manufacturing costs, and it did not take long for other industrialists to follow this idea. ... Our world is going through a great period of change. ...
Henry Ford Henry Ford is the founder of the Ford Motor Company. ... In Detroit, he was apprenticed to the owner of a small machine shop. ... Henry Ford was not the man to create or even first to employ the use of the assembly line, in which a worker would do one job over and over on different cars to create more cars in less time, Ford was mainly responsible for the adoption of it in the world of industry. ... Henry Ford not only changed the way the car was made but also changed the way the factory workers were treated. ... Henry Ford began to push for gas stations to be built everywhere wh...
-Henry Ford Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840s. ... The engineer explained all about the machine and even let Ford fire the engine and run it. ... Although he yearned to go to Detroit and work in the machine shops, Ford stayed on the farm helping the family until he was seventeen. ... The car that finally emerged from Ford's secret design section at the factory would change America forever. ... Before the United States entered World War I, he despaired...
Around the same period that he was opening his machine shop he found love in Clara Bryant. ... It was debuted at the Worlds Fair of that year. ... The debut at the Worlds Fair was a publicity stunt by Ford to gain support from potential investors. ... That meant that Ford was producing 60% of all cars in America. ... Ford had turned the company over to his son in 1919, because many believed that Henry was a "crackpot" inventor. ...
Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 on a forty-acre farm in Dearborn, Michigan. ... In his spare time, Ford built his first car in a little machine shed behind his home. ... 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. ... This is a quote from Henry Ford in 1907. ...
HENRY FORD"S AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION The initiation of the assembly line#, the division of labor#, and the development of interchangeable parts# lead to Henry Ford's ability to increase auto production at a more affordable price. ... Henry Ford wanted to make sure that everyone in America had a car. ... Henry Ford changed all of this with these three new ideas. ... The goals that Henry Ford set were based on a vision and progress for the company and it included a team influence and participation in the work that was needed to get done. ... If it were not for Henry Ford, faster aut...
He revolutionized the business world and he changed forever the efficiency of factories around the world. One of the reasons that Henry Ford can be considered such an important man is that his ideas and concepts are still used today. ... Henry would remain in Detroit working and learning about all varieties of machines. ... Think of what the world would be like if Henry had stayed on as a farmer. ... The effect that Henry Ford left on American factories and business was important and everlasting....