Author: Alison Ridley Garfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962197628
Category : Trade schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Henry Ford's Boys
Author: Alison Ridley Garfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962197628
Category : Trade schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962197628
Category : Trade schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edsel
Author: Henry L Dominguez
Publisher: SAE International
ISBN: 0768009200
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Carefully crafted from thousands of Ford archives, written interviews, and first-hand accounts told by people who knew the man, Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford's Forgotten Son, brings into focus the remarkable life of Edsel Ford. The book chronicle's Edsel's life from his early days of growing up in and around his father's company, through the controversy of his World War I draft notice and eventual exemption, the design change from the Model T to the Model A, and the creation of the Ford Foundation. 27 chapters in all help to shed light on the life of a man who preferred to spend most of his life out of the limelight.
Publisher: SAE International
ISBN: 0768009200
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Carefully crafted from thousands of Ford archives, written interviews, and first-hand accounts told by people who knew the man, Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford's Forgotten Son, brings into focus the remarkable life of Edsel Ford. The book chronicle's Edsel's life from his early days of growing up in and around his father's company, through the controversy of his World War I draft notice and eventual exemption, the design change from the Model T to the Model A, and the creation of the Ford Foundation. 27 chapters in all help to shed light on the life of a man who preferred to spend most of his life out of the limelight.
Time For Kids: Henry Ford
Author: Editors Of Time For Kids
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060576316
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Discusses the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford, a man who changed the American way of life in the 1900s by inventing the Model T and founding the Ford Motor Company.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060576316
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Discusses the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford, a man who changed the American way of life in the 1900s by inventing the Model T and founding the Ford Motor Company.
Henry Ford for Kids
Author: Ronald A. Reis
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613730934
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Henry Ford for Kids provides an in-depth portrait of the man who "put America on wheels." You'll learn about Ford's childhood on a Michigan farm, where the budding engineer loved to take apart and reassamble everything from toys to watches to machinery; about his revolutionary labor ideas, including paying higher wages and hiring women and the disabled at a time when many companies would not; about his fervent opposition to war and the lasting impact of his widespread philanthropy. But you'll also learn that this automotive giant was a flawed individual whose controversial views and heavy-handed management style alienated many, yet whose engineering genius and impact on the world are undeniable. Packed with historic photos and illuminating sidebars, the book brings the turn of the 20th century to life. Twenty-one hands-on activities encourage young innovators to apply engineering and production ideas and learn more about the era. Kids will build a lemon-powered battery; form an assembly line; learn to "read" simple industrial drawings; design an automobile dashboard; learn to dance the waltz; and much more.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613730934
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Henry Ford for Kids provides an in-depth portrait of the man who "put America on wheels." You'll learn about Ford's childhood on a Michigan farm, where the budding engineer loved to take apart and reassamble everything from toys to watches to machinery; about his revolutionary labor ideas, including paying higher wages and hiring women and the disabled at a time when many companies would not; about his fervent opposition to war and the lasting impact of his widespread philanthropy. But you'll also learn that this automotive giant was a flawed individual whose controversial views and heavy-handed management style alienated many, yet whose engineering genius and impact on the world are undeniable. Packed with historic photos and illuminating sidebars, the book brings the turn of the 20th century to life. Twenty-one hands-on activities encourage young innovators to apply engineering and production ideas and learn more about the era. Kids will build a lemon-powered battery; form an assembly line; learn to "read" simple industrial drawings; design an automobile dashboard; learn to dance the waltz; and much more.
Who Was Henry Ford?
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448479575
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Born on a small farm in rural Michigan, Henry Ford’s humble beginnings were no match for his ambition. Ford quickly created a manufacturing dynasty, bringing affordable cars to the masses and forever changing America and the American workplace. Who Was Henry Ford? details his meteoric rise, and explains how the genius behind the assembly line and the Model T shaped modern American industry.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448479575
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Born on a small farm in rural Michigan, Henry Ford’s humble beginnings were no match for his ambition. Ford quickly created a manufacturing dynasty, bringing affordable cars to the masses and forever changing America and the American workplace. Who Was Henry Ford? details his meteoric rise, and explains how the genius behind the assembly line and the Model T shaped modern American industry.
Full of Beans
Author: Peggy Thomas
Publisher: Thinkingdom
ISBN: 1635923573
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Famous car-maker and businessman Henry Ford showed great innovation with his determination to build his most inventive car—one completely made of soybeans. With a mind for ingenuity, Henry Ford looked to improve life for others. After the Great Depression struck, Ford especially wanted to support ailing farmers. For two years, Ford and his team researched ways to use farmers' crops in his Ford Motor Company. They discovered that the soybean was the perfect answer. Soon, Ford's cars contained many soybean plastic parts, and Ford incorporated soybeans into every part of his life. He ate soybeans, he wore clothes made of soybean fabric, and he wanted to drive soybeans, too. This nonfiction picture book brings to life an amazing story from American history that will inspire young readers.
Publisher: Thinkingdom
ISBN: 1635923573
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Famous car-maker and businessman Henry Ford showed great innovation with his determination to build his most inventive car—one completely made of soybeans. With a mind for ingenuity, Henry Ford looked to improve life for others. After the Great Depression struck, Ford especially wanted to support ailing farmers. For two years, Ford and his team researched ways to use farmers' crops in his Ford Motor Company. They discovered that the soybean was the perfect answer. Soon, Ford's cars contained many soybean plastic parts, and Ford incorporated soybeans into every part of his life. He ate soybeans, he wore clothes made of soybean fabric, and he wanted to drive soybeans, too. This nonfiction picture book brings to life an amazing story from American history that will inspire young readers.
Young Henry Ford
Author: Sidney Olson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814312247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford. Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford--an American farm boy who became one of the greatest manufacturers of modern times and profoundly impacted the habits of American life. In Young Henry Ford, Sidney Olson dispels some of the myths attached to this automobile legend, going beyond the Henry Ford of mass production and the five-dollar day, and offers a more intimate understanding of Henry Ford and the time he lived in. Through hundreds of restored photographs, including some of Ford's own taken with his first camera, Young Henry Ford revisits an America now gone--of long days on the farm, travel by horse and buggy, and one-room schoolhouses. Some of the rare illustrations include the first picture of Henry Ford, photos from Edsel's childhood, snapshots of the interior and exterior of the Ford homestead, Clara and Henry's wedding invitation, and photos of the early stages of the first automobile.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814312247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford. Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford--an American farm boy who became one of the greatest manufacturers of modern times and profoundly impacted the habits of American life. In Young Henry Ford, Sidney Olson dispels some of the myths attached to this automobile legend, going beyond the Henry Ford of mass production and the five-dollar day, and offers a more intimate understanding of Henry Ford and the time he lived in. Through hundreds of restored photographs, including some of Ford's own taken with his first camera, Young Henry Ford revisits an America now gone--of long days on the farm, travel by horse and buggy, and one-room schoolhouses. Some of the rare illustrations include the first picture of Henry Ford, photos from Edsel's childhood, snapshots of the interior and exterior of the Ford homestead, Clara and Henry's wedding invitation, and photos of the early stages of the first automobile.
I Invented the Modern Age
Author: Richard Snow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451645570
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
An account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T, the machine that defined twentieth-century America.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451645570
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
An account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T, the machine that defined twentieth-century America.
Henry Ford
Author: Hazel B. Aird
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0020419104
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The early life of the American automotive industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and pioneered in assembly-line methods of mass production.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0020419104
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The early life of the American automotive industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and pioneered in assembly-line methods of mass production.
Henry Ford and the Model T
Author: Michael O'Hearn
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736896429
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Tells the story of Henry Ford, along with his invention, the popular Model T automobile.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736896429
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Tells the story of Henry Ford, along with his invention, the popular Model T automobile.