Automotive Business & Industry, Automotive Industry - History, Business Biography - Specific Individuals, Automobiles - Ford - General & Miscellaneous, Industrialists - Biography, Automotive History
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Overview
Henry Ford is popularly perceived as the inventor of mass production; the man who, through the uncompromising application of logic to the production process, made millions of cheap identical motor cars, the man who brought motoring to the masses, the most famous car-maker in the history of the world.\Synopsis
Henry Ford is often thought of as being the ultimate American folk hero who developed one of the most important changes to 20th-century American society - mass production. With his successive teams of engineers, Ford developed technologies which placed the motor car at the disposal of millions of people, freeing them from previous notions of distance and space, and re-shaping the modern urban environment worldwide.Book Details
Published
December 15, 1994
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pages
150
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780719041747