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Henry Ford : building cars for everyone
Title:
Henry Ford : building cars for everyone
Author:
McCarthy, Pat, 1940-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, [2002]

©2002
Physical Description:
128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary:
A biography of the American inventor and industrialist who is best known for making the automobile practical, through both his revolutionary assembly lines and his desire to make a car every working man could afford.
Language:
English
Contents:
Testing the quadricycle -- Henry Ford, farm boy -- Independence and marriage -- Race cars and business failures -- Ford pioneers the assembly line -- The Peace Ship -- War, trials, and retirement -- Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum -- The Twenties, the Thirties, and the Great Depression -- Labor problems -- The later years -- The legacy of Henry Ford.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.5 4.0 60701.
ISBN:
9780766016200
Format :
Book