Question

How did Henry Ford affect American industry?

Answer 1

The answer is A) He developed new methods of steel production.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C, as Henry Ford succesfully used the assembly line to produce the Model T.

Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of the modern production lines used for mass production.

The introduction of the Ford T in the automotive market revolutionized transportation and industry in the United States. He was a prolific inventor who obtained 161 patents registered. As the sole owner of the Ford company, he became one of the best-known and richest people in the world.

He is credited with Fordism, a system that spread between the late thirties and early seventies and created by the manufacture of a large number of low-cost cars through chain production. This system involved the use of specialized machinery and a large number of employees with high salaries.