Ford Henry - I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

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CONTENTS

Saving the farm, then saving the entire past; between the steam engine and the Apple; nobody knew anything about cars; Fordism.

The boy who hated farming; McGuffeys new green world; steam and clockwork; a house without a mainspring; the biggest event in those early years; into Detroit.

Hes a thinking, serious person; winning a dead mans job; electricity; a baby and a seventh home; the Christmas Eve engine.

Making a car in a world without any; a colorless, limpid, innocent-appearing liquid; the Bagley Avenue woodshed; Americas first car race; Henry Fords first car.

Fords first sale; Theres a young fellow who has made a gas car; Fords first company; a winter drive with civilizations latest lisp; dissolution: Henry wasnt ready.

We had to race; Smiling Billys Worlds Championship Sweepstakes; Ford vs. Winton: A thin man can run faster than a fat one; the Henry Ford Company; The materialization of a nightmare.

Malcomsons gamble; from a toy printing press; the Dodge brothers; the Ford Motor Company; This business cannot last; the (first) Model A; BOSS OF THE ROAD.

Who in hell are you?; Couzens bosses the boss; the cars get shipped; the importance of dealers; an earthquake proves the Model A; parasites; who was Malcomson?

Who wanted it?; Sorensens locked room; steering wheel on the leftforever; new experts, new engine, new steel, new car; Without doubt the greatest creation in automobiles ever placed before a people.

Selden files a patent on all gas-powered automobiles and sues their makers; the court finds for him; most carmakers give in; Ford wont pay graft money; a second trial; One of the greatest things Mr. Ford did...

New York to Seattle on thin ice; learning to drive the Model T; birth of a dealer; the farmer and the car; caring for your Model T; the perils of starting it; Funny Stories About the Ford; five thousand accessories; remaking the nation in a decade: Ill go without food before Ill go without my car.

The Crystal Palace; taking the work to the worker; speeding up; the twentieth centurys only industrial revolution; the workers hate it.

Couzens and his conscience; Its a good round number; Ford bids against himself; every worker a potential customer; Ford at his zenith.

Telling workers how to live; ugly enough to be a minister; war; Ford on the American soldier: Lazy, crazy, or just out of a job; Couzens quits; GREAT WAR TO END CHRISTMAS DAY: FORD TO STOP IT; from peace angel to Vulcan.

The Rouge rises; the Dodge brothers sue; we dont seem to be able to keep the profits down; sandbagging the shareholders; probing Fords ignorance in court: Did you ever hear of Benedict Arnold?

The problems of civilization traced to their source; the Dearborn Independent ; Liebold; LETS HAVE SOME SENSATIONALISM; Jewish Degradation of American Baseball; two U.S. presidents ask Ford to stop his campaign; he carries it on for ninety-one issues of the Independent ; Ford apologizes, saying he had no idea what was in his newspaper.

Edsel; his powerless power in the company; Evangeline Dahlinger and her houses and horses; the executive scrap heap; how to join it: suggest changing the Model T; sales dwindle; Edsel fights; the last Model T; what the car had done.

The Model A; The Rouge is no fun anymore; buying every steam engine; Maybe I pushed the boy too hard; the reluctant armorer of Democracy; to bed by candlelight.

FOR CAROL,

who brightened my explorations of Greenfield Village, just as she has everything else Ive done for the last quarter century.

ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary

... Yes, Tin, Tin, Tin, You exasperating puzzle, Hunk o Tin. Ive abused you and Ive flayed you, But by Henry Ford who made you, You are better than a Packard, Hunk o Tin. C. C. Battershell, Dedicated to the Memory of Car No. 423, a Model T ambulance destroyed on the Western Front in 1917. After Rudyard Kiplings Gunga Din.

I INVENTED THE MODERN AGE

In 1913 the Ford Motor Company issued this cross-section of its world-changing creation, assuring the recipient that the better you know your car, the better... you will enjoy it.

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