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Henry Ford

Automobile

• Everyone knows Ford automobiles! Henry Ford was an original automotive engineer and held many patents on car machinery.
• He changed the auto industry and is best remembered for reducing the time it took to assemble a car.
• Before his Model T, cars took a very long time to assemble and were very expensive.
• Ford figured out a way to mass assemble the car and did it in less than 2 hours! He was able to drop the price of the car and make cars available to all kinds of people.