Henry Ford didn't create the automobile ... It only made sense that he became a machinist's apprentice in the 1880s and worked his way to becoming chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating ...

Henry Ford came out of a kind of agricultural background ... He was in his early manhood a kind of machinist. He worked for the Edison Illuminating Company. WATTENBERG: Never went to college.

After leaving his native city at the age of 16, he found work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit. Henry Ford paid his autoworkers $5 a day in January 1914. Increasing the income of workers led to a ...

On this day, April 7, 1947, Henry Ford — the pioneering industrialist and proud Irish American — passed away at the age of 83 in Dearborn, Michigan. Born to Irish immigrant parents from County ...