This Day in History - Henry Ford Test-Drives His First Vehicle (1896)

Henry Ford Test-Drives His First Vehicle (1896)
Henry Ford was an American engineer who is widely credited with developing the world's first modern assembly line used in mass production. After becoming chief engineer of the Edison Illuminating Company in 1893, Ford was able to devote attention to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines, which culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle named the Quadricycle. What was Ford's highly unusual "wage motive" concept? More...


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