Ford+Motor+Companies

=__**FORD MOTOR COMPANY**__= Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company, and it was incorporated on June 16, 1903, with the intention of producing motor products for the masses.

Ford was an industrialist, who was focused on making as many products for public consumption as possible as fast and as cheaply as possible. He was a pioneer of the assembly line technique of mass production, in which interchangable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner. This allowed for Ford's Model-T to be made at an extremely fast process (approximately 2 hours) which supplied the increasing demand of the products.

As for the Model-T itself, it was revolutionary in its design. It also revolutionize modern transportation in America; previously, the only major way of travelling across various distances in the U.S. was by train. This opened up many, many doors for transportation in America. In 22 years, the number of automobiles on American highways jumped from just 4 to nearly 5 million. The growing number of methods of transportation, combined with the developing methods of communication, changed American social life. The idea for the automobile sprung from the growing oil industry, and the invention of "gasoline", which was the result of an extraction process developed in the late 19th century in the U.S. by which lubrivating oil and fule oil were removed separately from crude oil. This gasoline could be used for fuel engines that were being developed and tinkered with in the late 19th century. Various prototypes for automobiles were created, but none were as refined as Ford's Model-T, and none changed the face of the automobile industry like it.