Henry Ford grew up in Wayne County, Michigan with a keen interest in machinery and engineering. He built his first gasoline engine in 1893, a one-cylinder motor that he built on the family’s kitchen table in Detroit. A decade later, he founded the Ford Motor Company, where he refined the assembly line process in an effort to make the Model T more affordable. That car eventually sold more than 15 million units during its production run from 1908 through 1927,
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