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Henry Ford was born on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan, USA
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Ford left home to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit
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Ford returned to Dearborn to work on the family farm, where he became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine.
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Ford married Clara Ala Bryant (1866–1950)
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Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company
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Ford's son, Edsel, was born
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Ford began his personal experiments on gasoline engines
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Creation of a self-propelled vehicle which he named the Ford Quadricycle
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Ford maintained an interest in auto racing
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Ford designed, built, and successfully raced a 26-horsepower automobile
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Murphy and other stockholders in the Detroit Automobile Company formed the Henry Ford Company with Ford as chief engineer.
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Ford left the company bearing his name. With Ford gone, Murphy renamed the company the Cadillac Automobile Company
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Ford produced the 80+ horsepower racer "999"
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Foundation of the Ford Motor Company
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The Model T was introduced
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Ford introduced the moving assembly belts into his plants, which enabled an enormous increase in production
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Ford assembly line
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Ford was a pioneer of "welfare capitalism"
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Ford astonished the world by offering a $5 per day wage ($120 today), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers
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Publishing the book My Life and Work
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Creation of the Ford Airways - Ford Airplane Company
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Ford Model A was introduced
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Died in Fair Lane, his Dearborn estat
