Automotive pioneer Henry Ford struck gold with the Ford Model T in 1908, but the road to success wasn't smooth. Ford built his first one-cylinder gas engine in 1893 and created his first car — which ...
Pioneering automobiles typically do very little in terms of what we consider "conventional design choices," and the Ford Model T is no exception. Perhaps nowhere is this exemplified more than the ...
1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...