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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Born on a small farm in rural Michigan, Henry Ford’s humble beginnings were no match for his ambition. Ford quickly created a manufacturing dynasty, bringing affordable cars to the masses and forever changing America and the American workplace. Who Was Henry Ford? details his meteoric rise, and explains how the genius behind the assembly line and the Model T shaped modern American industry.
4) Henry Ford
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Explore the life and achievements of Henry Ford. Photographs, a timeline, and easy-to-read text tell the story of this great automobile maker who started the Ford Motor Company."--
5) Henry Ford
Author
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the engineer and industrialist whose innovative methods enabled his company to build and mass-produce reliable and inexpensive automobiles and whose latter years were devoted to establishing a museum reflecting American life before the advent of machines.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Scottish immigrant who became the richest man in the world for his time, due to his involvements in the railroad, telegraph, iron, and steel; and who before he died disposed of the bulk of his fortune in philanthropic ways, feeling that a man who died with his fortune intact died disgraced.
11) H.J. Heinz
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of H. J. Heinz, who started one of the first companies to make processed food, buying his brothers' food company and renamed it the H.J. Heinz Company in 1888.
12) John Deere
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of John Deere, including his childhood on a Vermont farm, his work as a tanner and blacksmith apprentice, and his invention of a new, more efficient type of plow that eventually led to his founding a company and opening his own factory.
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