Labels:text | human face | man | smile | clothing | clock | person OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Ford, Henry Henry Ford Founder of the Ford Motor Company and maker of the Model T ("the machine that changed the world"), Henry Ford became the world's most famous automobile manufacturer. He began his career as a machinist apprentice, but at age 30 demonstrated his mechanical inventiveness with the construction of a single-cylinder gasoline-powered vehicle. Ten years later, in 1903, he founded the Ford Motor Company and began to develop assembly-line techniques to produce an affordable automobile. The result was the four-cylinder Model T Ford, and by 1914 it had captured nearly half the U.S. automobile market. Ford's early reputation as a good employer, who introduced a $5 minimum wage, was Henry Ford, automobile subsequently tarnished during the 1920s and 1930s, when he began to employ labor spies manufacturer, 1863-1947 at his plants and sanctioned violence against union organizers. His enduring achievement was, within his own lifetime, to make automobile ownership possible for millions around the world. CHRONOLOGY
