Annotated Bibliography My Life and Work: An Autobiography...

Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources:

Books

Ford, Henry. My Life and Work: An Autobiography of Henry Ford. S.l.: BN, 2008. Print.

As a primary source, this autobiography helped us learn about Henry Ford's automobile

company through his perspective. It taught us about how the details of the events in his

life and his personal life through his eyes. It talked about the discoveries that Henry Ford

made that led up to the impact of his career.

Images

A Lot Full of Model T's. Digital image. University of North Colorado. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Jan.

2015.

This picture, showing a lot of Model T's in a parking lot ready for sale, proved the

transformation of cars that Ford caused. We used this picture in our "Background" page

to show that Ford's Model T was produced largely, unlike cars of the past.

Assembly Line. Digital image. ThingLink. ThingLink, 2014. Web. 3 Jan. 2015.

This picture was from Henry Ford's factories. It was important because assembly

lines were important in Ford's factories and this was a primary source, making it more

authentic.

Detroit "Motor City," Michigan. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Jan. 2015.

This photo was useful because it explained the first moving assembly line at the Ford

Motor Company. It was located in Detroit, Michigan and gave us a clear visual

understanding of Henry Ford's factories.

Kuehn, Duncan. Ford Car Ad. Digital image. GenealogyBank.com. GenealogyBank.com, 10

Nov. 2014. Web. 3 Jan. 2015.

This a newspaper advertisement complementing the excellence of the Model T compared

to other cars of that time. We used this picture in the "Home" page along with our thesis,

since it shows the legacy of the Model T, setting a new standard.

A picture of Henry Ford as a toddler. Digital image. Henry Ford: Grabbing History by the

Wheel. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2014.

We included this picture of Henry Ford as a toddler in our Background page to display

the childhood of Henry Ford.

Henry and Clara Ford in 1946 on the 50th anniversary of the Quadricycle. Digital image.

MyAutoWorld. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Dec. 2014.

This is a picture of Henry Ford and Clara Bryant sitting in the Quadricycle, Henry's first

car ever, on the fiftieth anniversary of it, which we placed this image in the Constructing

the Horseless Carriage page of our website to show the looks of the Quadricycle.

Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Digital image. The Ford Motor Company Media Center. The

Ford Motor Company, n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2014.

This is a picture of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford standing together, showing their firm

friendship between each other. We used this picture in the Background page to show that

Henry Ford worked with Edison.

The Assembly Line. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Jan. 2015.

This picture provided a perfect understanding as a visual for what Ford's factories looked

like inside. Visual understandings were very important because it related to his leadership

and legacy and how he handled the Ford Motor Company.

Interviews

Videos

"Ford Model T." YouTube. Google.com, 7 Nov. 2008. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This video shows the different parts and stages in which the Model T is assembled. We

got an idea of how fast a Model T could be assembled, and the conditions the workers

worked in. We took the part of the video which shows many workers assembling the

Model T and put it on our website to show how a Model T could be built.

Secondary Sources:

Books

Bankston, John. Henry Ford and the Assembly Line. Bear, DE: Mitchell Lane, 2004. Print.

This book provided the details of Henry Ford's personal life and the creation of his

discoveries. It helped us get an excellent overview of the most significant events and

discoveries in Henry Ford's life. Also, it included why the production line and the Model

T made such an impact in the 20th century.

Burgan, Michael. Henry Ford. Milwaukee, WI: World Almanac Library, 2002. Print.

This volume of the almanac by Michael Burgan was very helpful because we learned a

lot about Henry Ford. His book was filled with important information about our topic and

explained how he worked hard on his inventions and also explained his personal life,

which also was significant in impact.

Emery, F. E. The Assembly Line: Its Logic and Our Future. Canberra: Centre for Continuing

Education, Australian National U, 1975. Print.

This book explained the history of the assembly line. We learned lots from this book

because Ford's main inventions was improving the assembly line and this allowed him to

advance forward. The book not only included information about Henry Ford's assembly

line but also included information about other figures' assembly lines in history.

Ford, Carin T. Henry Ford: The Car Man. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2003. Print.

This book explained each part of Ford's life clearly and included the significance of

his inventions and his cars. They were important to each and every person's life in the

time of the early 20th century. We learned a lot from this book about his life and how he

grew up in his time.

Gaines, Ann. Henry Ford. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Book, 2002. Print.

This book was important because it provided necessary information for our

website. Anne Gaine's book was very detailed and mainly elaborated on Henry

Ford's personal life and important inventions. We learned a lot from this book and

aided mainly in our background pages.

Kelly, Regina Zimmerman. Henry Ford. Chicago: Follett, 1970. Print.

Henry Ford was explained very well in this book. We learned very much about his

life and inventions in this book and this definitely helped us make our website. It was

very important because his life definitely affected economy by increasing employee

wages.

Lacey, Robert. Ford: The Men and the Machine. London: Heinemann, 1986. Print.

This book provided a precise and long biography of Ford's life. It reveals the complex

and contradictory man Henry Ford actually was in his personal life, beneath his business,

his company and his creations. It tells the origin of the success of Ford’s creations, and

his aspiring ideas to build his car. This provided much information, which helped us to

make this website informative.

Long, David. Henry Ford. New York: History, 2014. Print.

David Long's book about Henry Ford was important in the making of our website

because it helped us learn more about Henry Ford. Henry Ford's inventions were clearly

explained in this book, along with his personal life. Ford's background affected his

inventions because he made his inventions in order to help the future, including himself.

Mara, Wil. Henry Ford. New York: Children's, 2003. Print.

This biography provided through explanation of how the Model T, along with assembly

lines, made cars affordable for everyone. It provided information on the Henry Ford's

personal life and the most vital elements that led to his success. We learned about

processes in manufacturing the Model T and how the production line was effective.

Meyer, Stephen. The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford

Motor Company, 19081921. Albany: State U of New York, 1981. Print.

This book is about the leadership Henry Ford expresses in the assembly line and the

changes he made to wages for his workers. It shows the life of the Ford Motor Company,

being founded in a small Detroit workshop to influencing labor and work in America,

even today. Mainly, it expresses the importance of the Five Dollar Day wage Ford

implemented, to solve issues and change worker's domestic environment. We used the

information in this book to make the leadership and legacy pages of our website.

Middleton, Haydn. Henry Ford. S.l.: Oxford UP, 1997. Print.

This book provides many pictures and shows the Henry Ford’s dreams and motivations.

It shows the difference between cars before Ford had been created, and cars after Ford

had been created. It also provides some information on his personal life. We learned

about why Ford was so eager to make an impact with his cars.

O'Connor, Edmund. Henry Ford. St. Paul: Greenhaven, 1980. Print.

This book was useful because it was a biography of Henry Ford and explained how his

life and inventions affected today's economy and society. It elaborated on important

information for our project and we learned a lot.

Rae, John Bell. Henry Ford. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall, 1969. Print.

This book was filled with important information for our website. It was extremely

detailed and this allowed us to find the necessary parts that would help us in our pages.

John Bell Rae's book mainly talked about Ford's life and inventions, which was what we

needed because it tied to the leadership and legacy theme of 2014.

Roberts, Steven. Henry Ford. New York: PowerKids, 2013. Print.

This book was helpful in the making of the website, especially in the section about Ford's

personal life. This information was so important in making the website because we could

then find how Ford was able to work hard and we could not only apply it to this project

but follow his work ethics in our daily lives, which would help us as well.

Tenopir, Milt. The Assembly Line. Grand Island, Neb.: ExHusker, 1996. Print.

This book included the history of the assembly line and its inventors of how it

advanced. Since the assembly line was important in the making of this project, this book

provided crucial and ideal information for us. We learned a lot from this book and liked

how it was very detailed.

"Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress Paperback – June

1, 2004." Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress: Douglas

Brinkley: 9780142004395: Amazon.com: Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2014.

As an extremely precise and long biography of Henry Ford, this book provided much

information used on our website. It provided extremely detailed information on the many

events of the life of Henry Ford. Additionally, it provided insight quotes and detailed

descriptions, which helped us to get a good image of how Ford became a child to the

founder of the Ford Motor Company. It described many events, big and little, and

provided the importance of that event at that time.

Images

Interviews

"Borg, Kevin." Email interview. 5 Jan. 2015.

We interviewed Professor Kevin Borg, who is a professor at James Madison University.

He

gave us important information about how Henry Ford changed the automobile industry

with his leadership and his legacy.

“LeckerPomaville, Shawn.” Email interview. 7 Jan. 2015.

Ms. Shawn LeckerPomaville provided us with deep information about Henry Ford’s

impact on

America. She works at MotorCities, and we learned a lot from our personal interview

with her.

“Lucsko, David.” Email interview. 22 Dec. 2014.

When we interviewed Professor David Lucsko from Auburn University, his extensive

information provided a very deep understanding for us. We asked him many questions,

and he was very helpful in the process of our website.

“Wells, Chris.” Email interview. 1 Jan. 2015.

We interviewed Professor Chris Wells from Macalester College. He provide us with his

important text and we were able to gain lots of information from him. He was helpful for

our project.

Videos

Websites

"AntiSemitism in the United States: Henry Ford Invents a Jewish Conspiracy." Henry Ford

Invents a Jewish Conspiracy. AmericanIsraeli Cooperative Enterprise, n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website was from a biased perspective because it thought that it was AntiJew. It

was considered bad and people did not like it. However, since most of our sources

considered Henry Ford and his inventions as positive, this website helped because we

learned things from a negative perspective, providing information that we would not have

known and not have found out from our "positive sources."

"Assembly Line | Henry Ford 150." Henry Ford 150. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2014.

With clear pictures, we were able to visualize on how Henry Ford affected the world. It

provides information on the assembly line. This was a very helpful source in the making

of the project.

"A Timeline of Ford Motor Company." NPR. NPR, 2014. Web. 24 Dec. 2014.

This timeline of Ford Motor Company explained the important times of how the

company advanced. It even explained the modern times of how it advanced and this

helped us in the making our site.

Bellis, Mary. "Henry Ford Biography." About.com Inventors. About.com, n.d. Web. 12 Dec.

2014.

Despite the small amount of information on this website, it explains the most important

and intriguing sections of his life, and vital changes he made to the automobile industry,

which left a lasting legacy on it. Additionally, it provides a brief overview on his personal

life before. Using this, we were able to get the most important parts about his impact,

which we used on the Legacy page.

"Car Creator Henry Ford." Cheap Car Insurance. CheapCarInsurance, n.d. Web. 26 Dec. 2014.

This website gives a short, but insightful, overview of Henry Ford. It provides

background information and information about his early years, the Ford Motor Company,

and his later years. This helped us to get a frame of how Henry Ford arose to success, and

a basic idea of how each achievement impacted the world.

"Clara Bryant Ford." Edison & Ford Winter Estates. Edison & Ford Winter Estates, 20102014.

Web. 26 Dec. 2014.

This website included information about Clara Bryant Ford, Henry Ford's wife. She

was important because she lived with Henry Ford and this definitely affected how he

acted and his inventions and personal life. Clara was definitely an important figure in

Ford's life and we definitely needed some information about her.

"Chronology." The Henry Ford. The Henry Ford, n.d. Web. 28 Dec. 2014.

Being the main source of the information of our timeline, this website has an excellent

timeline, showing just the right amount of information for each event in a simple but

perceptive way. It provides an overview of the life of Henry Ford in a precise way, which

is why we used the information on it for our timeline.

Davis, Carol. "Henry Ford, the Man Who Changed America." American Profile. WordPress.com

VIP, 8 June 2003. Web. 15 Dec. 2014.

Discussing the specific elements how Henry Ford changed America, this website was

extremely useful in the writing of the Legacy page of our website. It includes what

inspired Henry Ford to make his automobiles, and the continuing success of Ford's

automobiles today. In addition, it includes some basic background information.

"Exemplary Leader Henry Ford." Leadership III. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2014.

A brief history of Henry Ford and a detailed explanation of what he did as a leader are on

this website. The brief history describes mainly what happened before he founded the

Ford Motor Company. It shows why his characteristics of being a leader, and what he did

to justify that. This helped us be informed and create the leadership part of our website.

Filler, Lane. "Henry Ford Didn't Pay $5 a Day Just to Be Nice." Newsday. Newsday, 17 Dec.

2013. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

Regardless of contradicting other websites, this website exhibits the underlying reasoning

of Henry Ford's five dollar a day wage. It informed us of additional information how the

wage affected the company. We used this information on our "Wage for Workers" page.

"First Assembly Line Started 100 Years Ago Today." AutoMinded. AutoMinded, n.d. Web. 23

Dec. 2014.

Even after a hundred years after the installation of the first assembly line, this website

looks back on how the Ford Motor Company made such an impact on the modern world

today. It focuses on how the assembly line ran, and a comparison of before and after the

assembly line was used to produce the Model T.

"Ford's Assembly Line Starts Rolling." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 12

Oct. 2014.

This timeline showed a week of time in Ford's assembly lines. It explains in detail of

everything that happened. Since it was in chronological order, it was very helpful in

creating the website itself.

"Ford's Assembly Line Turns 100: How It Changed Society." NY Daily News.

NYDailyNews.com, 7 Oct. 2013. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website describes the interior of the Ford Motor Company back then with an

assembly line, showing the speed that cars could be built and how busy the workers were.

It also describes how the assembly line still impacts today, as many modern car

companies, including Ford itself, use it. We used some of this information in our

"Legacy" page.

"Ford's Assembly Line Turns 100: How It Really Put the World on Wheels Feature." Car and

Driver. Hearst Communications, Apr. 2013. Web. 23 Dec. 2014. Discussing in detail how

Henry Ford managed to combine the assembly line with products and his five dollar a day

wage influenced the rest of the industry, this website was extremely helpful in the

Leadership and Legacy portions of our website. It describes the progression of the

assembly line, and why Ford decided to double the wage for workers.

"Ford Installs First Moving Assembly Line." PBS. WGBH, n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2014.

This website showed the impact of the integration of the Model T and the assembly line.

It explained why Ford was able to make the Model T affordable, by having

interchangeable parts, allowing a worker with low skill to do the job. We used the

information on this website in the “Installing the Assembly Line” portion of our website.

"Ford Motor Company Timeline." FORDification.com. FORDification.com, n.d. Web. 24 Dec.

2014.

This website shows a timeline of the different events leading up to Henry Ford's success

in the Ford Motor Company, from building the Quadricycle to modern times. We used to

website to learn about the different times of events and what happened, which we used in

our chronology and background.

"Fun Facts about Ford Motor Company Preston Automotive Group."Preston Automotive

Group. N.p., 14 Mar. 2014. Web. 13 Dec. 2014.

This site provided facts about the Ford Motor Company that were useful as pieces

of information throughout the making of the website. It provided information about not

only Ford but the company itself, which developed throughout the years, blooming with

new inventions. Ford's inventions were interesting to read about.

Gloss, Jennifer L. "How Henry Ford's Assembly Line Changed Manufacturing." About. N.p.,

n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.

This site provided information on Henry Ford himself and the assembly line.

Additionally, it had information on the impact of the rest of world, especially the middle

class. Lastly, it has information on how it affects today, which helped us during the

project.

Gross, Daniel. "Henry Ford Understood That Raising Wages Would Bring Him More Profit."

The Daily Beast. Newsweek/Daily Beast, 6 Jan. 2014. Web. 26 Dec. 2014.

This website informs how Henry Ford's decision to raise wages has actually very deeply

affected America today. It shows that Henry Ford only knew that raising wages would

additionally raise profit for his company. It helped us to write the legacy portion of our

website, since it set a higher bar for wages of workers.

"Henry Ford." Ducksters. Technological Solutions, n.d. Web. 26 Dec. 2014.

This website gives a brief bibliography of Henry Ford's early life, and then describes the

inventions he made and how those inventions made an impact, especially the Model T

and the assembly line. We used the information from this website in the legacy portion of

our website.

"Henry Ford." Entrepreneur. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.

This website showed how Henry Ford's inventions had impacted today's society. Since

Henry Ford created cars and a company still lasting today, people have appreciated what

he has done and people have learned more about Ford himself. Ford has not only

significantly affected the modern world but also made his time more advanced

technologically.

"Henry Ford." Famous Scientists. Famous Scientists Content and Imagery, 2014. Web. 02 Nov.

2014.

This source provided information about Ford's life and achievements that happened

during it. It taught us that, throughout his life, he was hardworking and persistent through

his work and led the Ford Motor Company to success.

"Henry Ford." Henry Ford. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Dec. 2014.

This website was overly detailed about Ford's life, resulting in lots of information

for our website. As a secondary source, it provided information about his early life,

control of the company, and later years. It was essentially a biography of Henry Ford

himself. We learned a lot from this website and was one of the main websites that aided

in the making of the website.

"Henry Ford." Henry Ford. Soylent Communications, n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website provided important information about Henry Ford, such as birthplace, birth

date, death date, and others. This website was useful in gathering general facts about Ford

himself, but unfortunately the website did not help much because it did not include

information about his life or inventions.

"Henry Ford." Inventor of the Moving Assembly Line. American Inventors, 2010. Web. 22 Dec.

2014.

This article explained how Henry Ford fit in with other American inventors, as well

as explaining how he affected the assembly line, and how it impacted the world. Lastly,

the page explained how the assembly line worked in Ford's factories.

"Henry Ford." New World Encyclopedia. MediaWiki, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2014.

This website provides a specific overview of Henry Ford's life, including his personal and

business life. It emphasizes his legacy on the world, and it also incorporates how he was a

leader into the overview. We used this website to learn about the background of Henry

Ford, and we also used information about his vehicles in our writing.

"Henry Ford." OnInnovation. The Henry Ford, n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website provides basic information about Henry Ford's innovations and inspiration.

It also provides background information about his childhood. We used the information

about inspiration in the Driven by Inspiration page of our website.

"Henry Ford." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers, n.d. Web. 26 Dec.

2014.

In this website, there is a biography of Henry Ford in which his main achievements are

discussed and described, and later, clear biases are shown, especially in the government.

We used this website to obtain information of what Henry Ford had thoughts of, and his

achievements in the world.

"Henry Ford and the Model T." Forbes Greatest Business Stories. John Wiley & Sons, n.d. Web.

18 Dec. 2014.

Providing specific information about the path to success Henry Ford followed to create

his dream car, including the obstacles he encountered, this website was extremely helpful

in informing us about the Model T. It tells about how Henry Ford loved tinkering, the

inspiration for building a car for the great multitude, and an intense legal battle between

Ford and Selden, a lawyer, who falsely patented the automobile.

"Henry Ford Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2014.

Basic information about Henry Ford's life is given on this website, including his early

life, early career, and Ford Motor Company. Additionally, there is information about his

political beliefs. This basic information was used for providing the structure of our

understanding of Henry Ford.

"Henry Ford Biography." Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline. Famous People, n.d. Web.

21 Dec. 2014.

This website included important facts about Ford's life and the dates helped in our project

as well. This website explained every stage of Henry Ford's life, elaborating as

specifically as possible. His career and personal life were included as well in the

information. As a biography, this website was useful.

"Henry Ford Biography." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Advameg, n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2014.

Giving us a simple, yet wide overview of Henry Ford's life, this website helped us with

information on quite a few pages on our website. It covers his early life, different

inventions, the Ford Motor Company, his years before his death, and especially the new

principles that Ford introduced to the country.

"Henry Ford Biography." Garden of Praise. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website mainly describes the advances Henry Ford made when building his

automobiles. It showed the improvements of the next model over the previous one, and

what the importance of each model. The information on this page was used in our

"Building the Horseless Carriage" page, since it described each Model.

"Henry Ford Biography." TheFamousPeople. Famous People, n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website gives a biography of Henry Ford's life, along with a basic timeline at the

bottom. In the biography, mostly his career was described, which we could use in

information about the Ford Motor Company. Additionally, this website discusses his life

outside the Ford Motor Company.

"Henry Ford Changes the World, 1908." Eyewitness to History. Ibis Communications, 2005.

Web. 23 Dec. 2014.

This website explains Henry Ford's development of the Model T, the birth of the Model

T, and how he managed to implement both of them together. It also includes pictures to

help get a better comprehension of the topics. We used the information from this website

in the pages about Legacy in our website.

"Henry Ford Founds The Ford Motor Company." EnglishClub. EnglishClub, n.d. Web. 26 Dec.

2014.

Giving a brief summary on what happened after Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor

Company, this website supported our baseline knowledge of the Ford Motor Company.

Additionally, there is a video on the website, showing the basic impact of the Model T on

the economy.

"Henry Ford Heritage Association." Henry Ford Heritage Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec.

2014.

This website discusses the legacy of Henry Ford and the story of how Henry Ford

managed to make his success. It also includes some information about his personal life

and detailed information of the birth of his company and what parts of his company made

the most impact on the modern world today. We used this information to assist us write

the Legacy portion of our website.

"Henry Ford's Life and Legacy." Henry Ford 150. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website provided an extremely long and extensive timeline, providing minor and

major events in Henry Ford's life. We gained information we used all around our website

and the timeline helped us to make our own timeline.

"Henry Ford’s Moving Automotive Assembly Line Turns 100 | Hemmings Daily." Hemming

Daily News for the Collector Car Enthusiast RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2014.

This source helped us learn more about Ford and his ways in making his assembly line.

The pictures provided a clear representation of Ford’s backgrounds in factories. It shows

a timeline which was useful in figuring out how Ford worked on his machines.

"Henry Ford Timeline." Softschools.com. Softschools.com, n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website includes a timeline with all the major events in his life, explaining then

basically. We obtained a good understanding of the events in order of Henry Ford's life,

and what happened basically in them. This also helped to make our timeline in our

"Chronology" page.

"Inventor Henry Ford Biography." Inventor Henry Ford Biography. The Great Idea Finder,

19972007. Web. 16 Dec. 2014.

This website provided extra information about Ford's life and how he worked on his

inventions, hence very helpful. We were able to learn more about his personal life and all

of his achievements, which started mass production and the assembly line. It gave a

timeline about his life and how he was able to do so much in his lifetime. It gave a

synopsis about his entire life.

"Jan. 5, 1914 | Henry Ford Implements the $5aDay Wage." The New York Times. The New

York Times Company, 05 Jan. 2012. Web. 24 Dec. 2014.

This website discusses the impact of doubling the wages back in 1914 on the economy of

that time, and why Henry Ford chose to do so. The information on this website showed

the legacy of Henry Ford clearly, by increasing production, decreasing training programs,

and increasing sales.

"Looking at Henry Ford's Legacy after 150 Years." Automotive News. Crain Communications,

03 Feb. 2013. Web. 15 Dec. 2014.

This website shows the impact Henry Ford made still shows, even after one hundred fifty

years. It shows how Ford pursued perfection, and how much those inventions contributed

to our daily lives. It provides some background information also, about the end of his life.

We used this to gain knowledge about Henry Ford and why his legacy was so important

in the modern world.

Luo, Dee. "Henry Ford: The Individual That Put America on the Road to Auto Prosperity."

Henry Ford: The Individual That Put America on the Road to Auto Prosperity. N.p., n.d. Web.

19 Nov. 2014.

This website had a video which helped with our picturing of Ford's assembly lines. It had

many tabs which we viewed, revealing his foundations and personal life. This website not

only explained about Ford’s assembly lines and him life, but also about how Ford’s cars

have made an impact on modern day society.

"Manufacturing the Future." The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 21 Nov. 2012. Web. 23

Dec. 2014.

This website showed how the assembly line will change in the future and how it affected

work in earlier times. We learned more about people's futures and how it related to the

assembly line. This information was useful as it was application to how it would affect us

and not just the past.

"Moving Assembly Line at Ford." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 22 Dec.

2014.

The history of the assembly line and how it related to Henry Ford's life, leadership, and

legacy. As the assembly line progressed, we learned that it became more widespread

throughout the world. The website was extremely detailed and these fine details helped us

make our website.

PBS. PBS, 1998. Web. 16 Nov. 2014.

This news article explains how Ford first created the assembly line. However, this

is a controversial topic and may not be accurate, but this is a point of view that

contradicts others. Some sources say that he did invent it and some say he did not.

Pettinger, Tejvan R. "Assembly Line ." Economics Help. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Dec. 2014.

This website provided information that was important about the assembly line. It

explained the pros and cons of it and provided a thorough definition. Though it was short,

this information was one of the most crucial pieces of knowledge that we could get about

the assembly line.

N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Dec. 2014.

This website provided important information about the Model T, one of Ford's most

important inventions of all time. It explains the background, significance, making,

characteristics, engine, structure, design, and has a timeline of the Model T.

Rosenberg, Jennifer. "Henry Ford Biography." Henry Ford. About.com, 2014. Web. 27 Dec.

2014.

This website was important because explained lots of things about Henry Ford. It was

mainly explained his life as a biography, as well as explaining his leadership and legacy.

His inventions and how he doubled wages for workers was also explained in this website.

"The Ford Model T Assembly Line." Barefoot Adventures. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

This website discusses specific details about the Model T, such as its cost, why Ford

decided to construct it, and how it worked. It also shows how the impact of the assembly

line and the Model T changes life today. We used the information from this website in

the Increasing Manufacture page.

The Henry Ford (@thehenryford). Twitter, n.d. Web.

As a social media Twitter profile, we learned pieces of information from this website. It

was both positive and innovative and this was a different perspective to learn from.

"The Innovator and Ford Motor Company." The Henry Ford. The Henry Ford, n.d. Web. 19 Dec.

2014.

Showing the clear rise and fall of the Ford Motor Company, this website helped us write

about the Ford Motor Company and its creations. It demonstrates the changes Henry Ford

made throughout his career, also the vast improvements made to the automobile.

"The Life of Henry Ford." The Life of Henry Ford. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2014.

As an exhibit, this website provided specific information on the achievements of Henry

Ford, and the way he transformed the inventions of the car and the assembly line. His life

was also included in the text of the website and the pictures did help as well.

"The Model T Ford." Frontenac Motor Company. Frontenac Motor Company, n.d. Web. 17 Dec.

2014.

This website provides a short background of Henry Ford's life in business, mainly about

the sales of Ford's cars, including the Model T and why his cars were built the way they

were. At the end of the website, a timeline is provided, stating some of the most vital

events occurring.

"The Model T." History of the Roaring Twenties. History of the Roaring Twenties, 9 June 2010.

Web. 24 Dec. 2014.

This website talks about what the Model T was, who built it, when it was constructed,

where it was built, and how it became left such an impact in the industry. It helped us

with the Model T page in the legacy portion of our website.

"The Model T Transforming American Life." MotorCities National Heritage Area. N.p., 22

Sept. 2008. Web. 22 Dec. 2014.

Expressing the transformation of America the Model T caused, this website was useful to

the Model T page of his legacy. It demonstrates how much popularity had earned and the

effect the popularity had on the Model T itself, also explaining the sacrifices made for the

speed and efficiency of the assembly line.

"The Ford Model T Specifications." Barefoot Adventures. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2014.

Providing specific information about the Model T and how it was built and run, this

website was very helpful in the creation of the "Bringing Cars to All" page. It describes

the difference the assembly brought on the manufacturing of cars in the Ford Motor

Company, and how that changed the economy.

"The Remarkably Enduring Wisdom of Henry Ford." Inc.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Dec. 2014.

This website gives many quotes that demonstrate the characteristics that Henry Ford had.

We used some of these quotes in our website, and some of the other quotes helped us to

get an understanding of how Ford's personality was like.

"Timeline: The Life of Henry Ford." PBS. WGBH Educational Foundation, n.d. Web. 22 Dec.

2014.

This timeline includes different visuals and information in an orderly way on the website.

It includes the dates and many events of Henry Ford's life, providing a description of

each event. We used this to assist us the making of our chronology page, in which we

included a timeline in.

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