Ford Motor Company Began Using the Moving Assembly Line
DEC 1 1913
Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, in Dearborn, Michigan, in the US. His parents were William Ford, who was born in County Cork, Ireland, and Mary Litogot, an American. Henry was the eldest of six children and was raised on the family’s farm near the city of Detroit.
When he was young, Henry took a pocket watch apart to see how it worked. He then earned some pocket money by repairing broken watches for local people. He eventually left the farm in 1879, to work repairing machines in Detroit.
In 1882, he returned to the family farm. He married Clara Bryant in 1888, and their only child, a boy named Edsel, was born in 1893.
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