Henry Ford · CatalogHenry FordHenry Ford · CatalogHenry Ford (1863-1947) was an American engineer and industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903, introduced the Model T in 1908 and pioneered the moving assembly line.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) was an American engineer and industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903, introduced the Model T in 1908 and pioneered the moving assembly line. My Life and Work was written in collaboration with the journalist Samuel Crowther (1880-1947).
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“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
My Life and Work, Chapter IV, The Secret of Manufacturing and Serving
My Life and Work is Henry Ford's account of his life and business ideas, written with the journalist Samuel Crowther and published in 1922, when the Ford Motor Company was the largest carmaker in the world. Ford tells how a Michigan farm boy who loved machines became an engineer at the Edison company in Detroit, built his first car in 1896, and founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903.