Henry Ford

Henry Ford the son of a farmer. He was born in Greenfield , Michigan on 30^th July 1863.He dropped school at 15 years old and started to work in his father`s farm but in 1879 he decided to move and he moved to Detroit .He became an apprentice in a machine shop. He used to work and spend his evenings repairing clocks and watches to help him to survive because of his low wages. He is the founder of Ford cars Company.

After that he returned to his city after his father gave him 40 acres to start his own farms but Ford disliked farming and he spent most of his time trying to build the farm locomotive He believed he can make a change in his life. However, Ford returned back again to Detroit to work as an engineer for Edison illuminating company.

After that, Ford spent his spare time trying to build a petrol- driven motor car .His first car finished in 1896 named it The Thin Lizzie the car had no reverse gear or brakes and Ford got this idea after he read an article in World Of Science. By August 1899, Ford had raised enough money to start his own business. Some of his investors withdrew after Ford spent $86,000 without producing a car that could be sold.

 Henry Ford's first car

By the time, Ford found twelve people who were willing to invest a total $28,000.Ford began producing of the model a car and by 1918 half of all cars in America were Ts .During the late 1910s and early 1920s the company began construction of the World`s largest industrial complex a long the banks of the Rouge river in Michigan .all the elements thats needed for automobile production can be found there like: A steel mill and other things. 

 World`s largest industrial complex, along  Rouge River, Michigan  

By 1925 Ford was producing 10,000 cars every 24 hours and later in 1927 Ford had sold over 15,000,000 Model T cars .As we can see the company still running even after Henry for died. Henry Ford died on 7^th April 1947.He never gave up even though that he had failed two times and lost lots of money but he stood again and raised the company up.

 Ford posing with the Model T 3

Henry Ford was one of the people who decided to invent something in his life to keep people remember him in the future and remember what he did. He got many challenges on his way but he kept moving to his dream and as we can see nowadays Ford one of the most famous American company. Company produces a lot of cars and export to other countries also most of people in USA are using Ford until this time. One of his quotes he said “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young”. He enjoys what he does that’s why he could achieve what he wants. He is also not a guy that typically just give up to something that impossible in life but he tried and learnt and success in his life.