<Tab/>During the late years of the 1800s and during the early years of the 1900s there was no fast means of transportation, except by horses. In the United States, there was one American farm boy, who would become one of the greatest manufacturers of modern times. He was also an industrial genius. How did the life and work of Henry Ford have a lasting impact on contemporary American society? His …showed first 75 words of 988 total…

…showed last 75 words of 988 total…Assembly Line" Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery. New York: Harper, 1989 Corwin, Edwin S. "Ford Henry Jones." Dictionary of American Biography. Ed Allen Johnson, and Dumas Malone. Vol. 3. New York: ACLS, 1958. Brewer, Thomas B. "Henry Ford." Encyclopedia od World Biography. Vol. 4. New York: McGraw, 1973. "Ford Develops the Assembly Line." Great Eventz: The Twentieth Century. "Ford, Henry." The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4. Chicago Sobel, Robert. "Ford, Henry." The World Book Encyclopedia. 2000 ed.