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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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Things have come a long way since Henry Ford's remark that customers could have his Model T automobile in any color they wished "as long as it was black"
Henry Ford's assembly line begins production of the Model T.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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However, the introduction of Henry Ford's Model T and the ensuing automobile boom turned his company into one of the country's largest.
The very year of its founding was the year Henry Ford set up the first assembly line to produce his revolutionary Model-T automobile.
Henry Ford was lready a wealthy man in 1909 when he began manufacturing the Model T Ford.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Charing Cross, the London railroad station, is now Charing T Rocket Station: the cross has been supplanted by the T, from Henry Ford's Model T.
While you're here, examine Henry Ford's original Model T, Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, and the original "Star-Spangled Banner.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Henry Ford improved the assembly line for automobile manufacturing (Model-T), invented a transmission mechanism, and popularized the gas-powered automobile.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Fine as the carriages were, it was a dying business, its demise hastened by Henry Ford's Model T automobile.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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While listening to stories about Model T Fords from my dad and uncles when I was a young lad, I decided that I had to have one of Henry's machines.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Indeed, when Henry Ford designed the Model T, it was his expectation that ethanol, made from renewable biological materials, would be a major automobile fuel.
Henry Ford called his Model T The Universal Car and he firmly believed that there was no need for further development in motorcars as he had perfected the modern automobile.
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