I invented the modern age The rise of Henry Ford
Large print - 2013
Growing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. Resourceful and fearless, he built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. It was the size of a sewing machine. From there, scene by scene, Richard Snow vividly shows Ford using his innate mechanical abilities, hard work, and radical imagination as he transformed American industry.
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Thorndike, Maine :
Center Point Large Print
2013.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Center Point large print edition
- Physical Description
- 551 pages (large print) : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-550).
- ISBN
- 9781611738278
- Chapter 1. A Homecoming
- Chapter 2. "My Toys Were All Tools"
- Chapter 3. Clara
- Chapter 4. Working from the Ground Up
- Chapter 5. What Edison Said
- Chapter 6. "Glory and Dust"
- Chapter 7. The Seven-Million-Dollar Letter
- Chapter 8. Ford Finds His Greatest Asset
- Chapter 9. Inventing the Universal Car
- Chapter 10. The Man Who Owned Every Car in America
- Chapter 11. The Model T Takes Over
- Chapter 12. Terrible Efficiency
- Chapter 13. The Five-Dollar Day
- Chapter 14. Simple Purposes
- Chapter 15. The Expert
- Chapter 16. The International Jew
- Chapter 17. The End of the Line
- Epilogue
- The Model A; "The Rouge is no fun anymore"; buying every steam engine; "Maybe I pushed the boy too hard"; the reluctant armorer of Democracy; to bed by candlelight.
- A Note on Sources, and Acknowledgments
- Bibliography