Author : Frank Bonville
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267786206
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Book Synopsis What Henry Ford Is Doing (Classic Reprint) by : Frank Bonville
Download or read book What Henry Ford Is Doing (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Bonville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What Henry Ford Is Doing At 21 his father gave him 40 acres in Dearborn and Ford settled down to operating a sawmill in the winters and repairing farm steam engines for the Buckeye Harvester Co. During two summers. In his 24th year Henry Ford married Clara J. Bryant, built a home, cleared his farm, and passed his time farming and building a steam road wagon which he never finished. After two years of this life he left the farm and went to work with the Detroit Edison Co. As night engineer at $45 a month, moving his family to Detroit [and establishing his machine shop in a small 'barn on Bagley Avenue a shop about the size of a present-day back-yard garage. The Edison Co. Then made Ford chief engineer at $125 a month and he remained with that organization for seven years, working 12 hours a day and putting in his evenings at his machine shop working on the development of gas engines and the perfection of his second motor-driven vehicle, which he brought out in 1898. In that year he left the Edison Co. And joined forces with the Detroit Auto mobile Co., organized-.to produce this car. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.