HOW DID HENRY FORD DEVELOP THE MODEL T?
By
Julian Carter
6th grade
Sociology
Browns Mill Elementary
Mr. Cochran
January 4, 2000
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HOW DID HENRY FORD DEVELOP THE MODEL T?
I. Introduction
A. How did Henry Ford decide to go into the automotive field?
B. Ford didn’t want to be a farmer.
1. Work was too hard on the farm.
2. No machines to make the work easier.
C. Ford wanted to go to the city.
1. Could work in the city in the day.
2. Could work on his dream at night.
II. What did Henry Ford accomplish in the automotive field?
A. Ford created the Ford Motor Company.
1. Ford created the Highland Park Factory.
2. Ford developed the assembly line to produce “a car a minute.”
B. Ford developed different types of cars.
1. Ford built a racecar that set records for speed.
2. Ford built revolutionized family cars.
3. Ford made cars affordable with the Model T
III. Why did Henry Ford stay with the automotive field?
A. Ford enjoyed working on machines.
1. Henry Ford quit his day job so he could sell cars full time.
2. Ford worked on his own cars in his spare time.
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B. Ford wanted to make engines affordable for everyone.
1. Ford wanted to make life easier for people.
2. Ford did not believe that only the rich should be entitled to an easier life.
IV. Conclusion
Purpose
My report will present a short biography about Henry Ford’s life and will explain how Ford developed the Model T car and later came up with the assembly line. I chose to do a report on Henry Ford because I have always been interested in cars. I wanted to learn more about Henry Ford’s model series and, specifically, about the model T. This report will tell about Ford’s dream to work with machines and will explain how he fulfilled his dream.
Methodology
November 5, 1999 Selected title for project and started research
December 3, 1999 Prepared note cards
January 4, 2000 Prepared rough draft of paper including:
Title Page, Outline, Purpose, Methodology Introductory Paragraph, Body of the Paper,
Conclusion, Bibliography, and Credit Page
January 7, 2000 Prepared sketch of backboard
January 14, 2000 Prepared final draft of paper
January 18, 2000 Completed backboard and submitted project
Introduction
Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William and Mary Ford’s six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in, what is today, Dearborn, Michigan. At an early age, he showed an interest in mechanical things and a dislike for farm work. He eventually designed the Model T car because of his fear of working on the farm; he wanted to make a better life and to achieve his dream of making cars affordable to everyone.
Henry Ford knew for sure that he did not want to stay on the farm. The work was too hard on the farm. Even worse there were no machines to make the work easier. Ford wanted to go to the city to work. In 1879, at sixteen years of age, Ford left home for the nearby city of Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist, although he did occasionally return to help on the farm. He remained an apprentice for three years and then returned to Dearborn. During the next few years, Ford divided his time between operating or repairing steam engines, finding occasional work in a Detroit factory, and overhauling his father’s farm implements, as well as lending a reluctant with other farm work. In the day he would work. After work he would go home for dinner and then work on his dream engine. In 1888, he married Clara Bryant and supported himself and his wife by running a sawmill.
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What did Henry Ford accomplish in the automotive field?
When Ford left home, he did not immediately reach success; he encountered many obstacles on the way. In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. This event helped Ford make his decision to dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. He was promoted to Chief Engineer in 1893 and this gave him enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines.
In his spare time Ford worked on his race car, the 999. Upon the completion of his race car Ford had his friend race the car for him since his wife wouldn’t let him. When his car finished the race in record time, businessmen approached Ford to start his automobile company. Henry Ford produced many machines during his lifetime. Although Ford was not the first to build a self-propelled vehicle with a gasoline engine, he was, however, one of several automotive pioneers who helped the United States of American become a nation of motorists.
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 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 1908. The Model T initiated a new era in personal transportation. This vehicle made Henry Ford his fortune because it was affordable. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads. By 1918, half of all cars in the United States of America were Model Ts.
To meet the growing demand for the Model T, the company opened a large factory at Highland Park, Michigan in 1910. Here, Ford combined precision manufacturing, standardized and interchangeable parts, a division of labor, and in 1913, a continuous moving assembly line. Workers remained in place, adding one component to each automobile as it moved past them on a line. Delivery of parts by conveyor belt to the workers was carefully timed to keep the assembly line moving smoothly and efficiently. The introduction of the assembly line revolutionized the automobile production by significantly reducing assembly time per vehicle, thus lowering costs. Workers were more efficient, so the lower cost of wages and lower cost of production meant that Ford could sell the cars for less money. Now many more Americans could buy the cars, just as Ford had dreamt and Henry Ford could make more money in profit.
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Why did Henry Ford stay with the automotive field?
Henry Ford stayed in the automotive industry because he enjoyed working on machines. During Ford’s early years, his father gave him a watch, which he promptly took apart. He looked at how the gears worked and, in no time, had the watch back together and working normally. From that moment, Henry combined his skill in machines with his good morals to produce an affordable product for all to appreciate. Henry Ford lived up to his words:
“I will build a motorcar 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. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one—and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.”
Henry believed that the rich should not be the only people to enjoy the luxuries of life.
Conclusion
At one point in time, Henry Ford’s father asked him to stay on the farm, but he had other plans. Ford had decided to go into the automotive field because he enjoyed working on machinery. Ford created his own company called The Ford Motor Company. In the automotive field, Ford produced the “999” racing car and the Model series. Ford made many different types or models of cars, but the Model T made him his fortune. While Henry Ford’s car designs did not make him famous, his use of the assembly line made him immortal. Will Rogers, a popular comedian in Henry Ford’s time, said this to the legendary automaker:
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Bibliography
Burlingame, Roger. Henry Ford: A Great Life in Brief, Alfred A. Knoff, New York, 1955.
Italia, Robert. Great Auto Makers and Their Cars, The Oliver Press, Minneapolis, 1993.
Middleton, Haydn. Henry Ford: The People’s Carmaker, Oxford University Press, Ukraine, 1997.
Parradis, Adrian. Henry Ford, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1968.
Pollard, Michael and Willkinson, Phillip. Turning Point in History: Scientists Who Changed the World, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1994.
Credit
I wish to thank my parents, Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Carter, and my brother, Adrian Carter, for all the help they provided me. We made many trips to libraries, and spent many hours using a variety of sources to research my topic. You helped me with typing and putting my overall project together. I could not have done it without each of you. Thank you so very much!
