Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero. In 1896, shortly after building his quadricycle, Henry Ford had the chance to meet the famous inventor at a convention in New York. Edison, who was ...

Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840s. Ford was born in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. His formal education was limited ...

Urban legend says industrialist Henry Ford cut workers’ hours to the then-unheard-of eight-hour workday. He also doubled their wages overnight. It sounds like that would not bode well for ...

Welcome Extra Historians to our Henry Ford Lies video! Where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our Henry Ford Series. With questions like ...

In the 1920s Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was besotted with the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, and decided that he wanted to own a piece of it. "He loved the region, and quietly ...