Henry Ford: The Man Who Put the World on Wheels

In the late 19th century, automobiles were expensive novelties reserved for the wealthy elite. The typical American relied on horses for transportation, while the emerging automobile industry produced handcrafted vehicles that cost more than most families earned in a year.

This was the world into which Henry Ford stepped – a world ripe for transformation by someone with enough vision, determination, and ingenuity to solve the fundamental problem of making automobiles accessible to ordinary people.