It not only frightened horses, and so disturbed the popular traffic of the time, but its speed, its glamour, its arrogance, and the haughty behavior of its proprietor, had apparently transformed it into a new badge of social cleavage.

It thus immediately took its place as a new gewgaw of the rich; that it had any other purpose to serve had occurred to few people.

Yet the French and English machines created an entirely different reaction in the mind of an imaginative mechanic in Detroit.
Probably American annals contain no finer story than that of this simple American workman.

Yet from the beginning it seemed inevitable that Henry Ford should play this appointed part in the world.

Born in Michigan in 1863, the son of an English farmer who had emigrated to Michigan and a Dutch mother, Ford had always demonstrated an interest in things far removed from his farm.