Lesson: Henry Ford

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The staff at The Henry Ford

Lesson 2 of "Impact of the Model T - Then and Now"

Employees at Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit, circa 1895

Photographic print

Henry Ford (far right) joined Edison Illuminating Company as a night engineer in September 1891. By mid-1894 he had been promoted to chief engineer. It was during his time here that Ford built his first automobile, the 1896 Quadricycle. Ford resigned from Edison Illuminating Company in August 1899 to devote himself full time to the budding automotive industry.