I invented the modern age : the rise of Henry Ford / Richard Snow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scribner, 2013.Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover edDescription: xv, 364 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781451645576 (hbk.)
  • 1451645570 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Rise of Henry Ford
  • Henry Ford
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7/629222092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • TL140.F6 S66 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
A homecoming -- "My toys were all tools" -- Clara -- Working from the ground up -- What Edison said -- "Glory and dust" -- The seven-million-dollar letter -- Ford finds his greatest asset -- Inventing the universal car -- The man who owned every car in America -- The Model T takes over -- Terrible efficiency -- The five-dollar day -- Simple purposes -- The expert -- The international Jew -- The end of the line -- Epilogue.
Summary: An account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T offers insight into his mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.
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An account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T offers insight into his mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-346) and index.

A homecoming -- "My toys were all tools" -- Clara -- Working from the ground up -- What Edison said -- "Glory and dust" -- The seven-million-dollar letter -- Ford finds his greatest asset -- Inventing the universal car -- The man who owned every car in America -- The Model T takes over -- Terrible efficiency -- The five-dollar day -- Simple purposes -- The expert -- The international Jew -- The end of the line -- Epilogue.

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