The Triumph of an Idea

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Excerpt from The Triumph of an Idea: The Story of Henry Ford The advent of the automobile brought a clash of industrial ideas. Should the new vehicle be high-priced, obtainable only by the wealthy? Or should it be a vehicle of service to all humanity - within reach of the pocketbook of Every family? Henry Ford's answer was the Model T, which became known as the "Universal Car" and of which he manufactured more than 15, 000, 000. With the Ford car available to the millions, there sprang up a nation-wide demand for better roads. The Ford car proved a great Social factor in the development and growth of the American people. And the story of the founding, success, and growth of the Ford Motor Co., giving the world, as it did, its first great picture of modern mass production, is an industrial epic which this volume attempts to tell. It is a story of facts that less than a generation ago would have been a fairy tale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.