Robber barons
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- Birth of Henry Ford
- It's A Boy!
- Henry Leaves home
- Ready to start my new life!
- Henry Gets Married
- will you marry me?
- YES!
- Henry Ford is born on a farm to William and Mary Ford in Springwells Township, Michigan, located nine miles outside of Detroit.(July 30, 1863)
- Henry's breakthrough!
- My masterpiece!
- Henry Ford leaves his family farm to pursue his interest in machinery in Detroit. One of his first jobs is at the Flowers Brothers Machine Shop where, for a salary of $2.50 a week, he shapes brass valves on a milling machine.(December 1879)
- Henry starts his buissness
- On her 22nd birthday, Clara Bryant of Greenfield Township marries Henry Ford. Bryant grew up on a farm a few miles northeast of the Ford homestead.(April 11, 1888)
- Henry plays a trick
- After two years of spending nearly every free minute refining his engine in the small shed behind his home, as well as in a basement room at Edison Illuminating, Ford completes his first automobile, the "Quadricycle," and drives it through the streets of Detroit. He also has a son by this time.(June 4, 1896)
- Ford's Highland Park factory begins operating the first moving automobile assembly line in the world. By the end of the year, Highland Park will employ about 13,000 men.(fall of 1913)
- welcome to my factory !
- Henry Ford declares that he is starting a rival automobile company that will produce a stripped-down version of the Model T to be sold for $250-$300. The announcement excites the public but alarms the seven remaining Ford Motor Company stockholders. In a panic over the thought of losing sales to Ford's new company, they sell their stocks.By July, Ford's announcement is revealed to be a trick: his agents had purchased all of the stocks and there would be no rival automobile company. For the first time, the Ford family controls every last share in the Ford Motor Company. And while Edsel may be president in name, Henry still retains power. (March 5,1919)
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