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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The 135-room hotel was originally built in 1931 by Henry Ford and designed by renowned architect Albert Kahn. It was restored by Ford Land’s design and Ford Motor Company’s archival teams in ...