ford, henry

Chronicles the history of Ford Motor Company and the life of its founder, Henry Ford, examining the company's impact on industry and the world.

A biography of the engineer and industrialist whose innovative methods enabled his company to build and mass-produce reliable and inexpensive automobiles and whose latter years were devoted to establishing a museum reflecting American life before the advent of machines.

Presents a biography of Henry Ford that examines his childhood and early work on automobiles, his development of the Model T and Model A, establishment of the first assembly line, and his controversial personal and private life.

A photo-illustrated chronicle of the life of the founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford.

Henry Ford, the creator of the Model T automobile, visits Santa Claus at the North Pole and, as he watches the elves making toys, he decides to use the same assembly line method to manufacture his automobile.

Provides information about the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. and introduces four men who contributed to or took advantage of the new technologies, including Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford.

Biography of the engineer and industrialist whose pioneering company showed the world how to build and mass-produce reliable, inexpensive automobiles.

Discusses the events in Henry Ford's life up until he invented his famous assembly line cars.

A biography of the man remembered as "father of assembly-line production" and as an innovator in labor practices.

Shares the life stories of six American men whose names continue to be associated with wealth and power long after their deaths, including Joseph P. Kennedy, John Jacob Astor, Henry Ford, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie.