To reduce costs and increase production of his most successful automobile — the Model T — Henry Ford borrowed a tactic from the meatpacking industry and implemented the assembly line in his ...

History credits Henry Ford and the Model T for optimizing ... Nearly 1,000 Model Ks left the factory before Ford became the president and controlling owner of the Ford Motor Company in 1906.

In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor ... sturdy car, offering no factory options -- not even a choice of color. The Model T, first produced in 1908, kept the same design ...

In 1914, Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Ford offered factory workers $5 a day for eight hours of work. Equivalent to $120 in 2014 dollars, it was more than double the minimum wage at the time ...

Shear Genius!, an interactive exhibition based on the popular film and television characters, is now open in the Gallery by ...

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in his memoirs reiterated the idea that it had long been Henry Ford’s ambition to build a factory in Cork. He wrote that Ford ‘was anxious to ...

The automobile maker did not experience success until midway through his life and failed to keep that success going, but there's a lot we can learn from him.