Henry Ford's Own Story / How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Chapters (31)
- HENRY FORD’S OWN STORY
- CHAPTER I ONE SUMMER’S DAY
- CHAPTER II MENDING A WATCH
- CHAPTER III THE FIRST JOB
- CHAPTER IV AN EXACTING ROUTINE
- CHAPTER V GETTING THE MACHINE IDEA
- CHAPTER VI BACK TO THE FARM
- CHAPTER VII THE ROAD TO HYMEN
- CHAPTER VIII MAKING A FARM EFFICIENT
- CHAPTER IX THE LURE OF THE MACHINE SHOPS
- CHAPTER X “WHY NOT USE GASOLINE?”
- CHAPTER XI BACK TO DETROIT
- CHAPTER XII LEARNING ABOUT ELECTRICITY
- CHAPTER XIII EIGHT HOURS, BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF
- CHAPTER XIV STRUGGLING WITH THE FIRST CAR
- CHAPTER XV A RIDE IN THE RAIN
- CHAPTER XVI ENTER COFFEE JIM
- CHAPTER XVII ANOTHER EIGHT YEARS
- CHAPTER XVIII WINNING A RACE
- CHAPTER XIX RAISING CAPITAL
- CHAPTER XX CLINGING TO A PRINCIPLE
- CHAPTER XXI EARLY MANUFACTURING TRIALS
- CHAPTER XXII AUTOMOBILES FOR THE MASSES
- CHAPTER XXIII FIGHTING THE SELDON PATENT
- CHAPTER XXIV “THE GREATEST GOOD TO THE GREATEST NUMBER”
- CHAPTER XXV FIVE DOLLARS A DAY MINIMUM
- CHAPTER XXVI MAKING IT PAY
- CHAPTER XXVII THE IMPORTANCE OF A JOB
- CHAPTER XXVIII A GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
- CHAPTER XXIX THE EUROPEAN WAR
- CHAPTER XXX THE BEST PREPAREDNESS
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