to Michigan to lay track for the railroad companies, and then used the money to purchase a plot of land in Dearborn and build the house where Henry was brought up. When Henry was thirteen his mother had died while delivering her eighth child (Halberstam 99). Henry had started school at the age of seven, reading books that introduced moral values and included passages from Dickens and Irving; however, as he grows he has a revelation. He realizes that books act like a drug; they are full pleasure and content but they really don't serve a underlying principle (Halberstam 99). Ford's real passion was for machinery or anything technical. As child, he would design simple but practical machines that would open up a gate for a wagon without having the person on the wagon leaving it. By the age of thirteen, Ford was fixing his friends' watches after he had received one for himself and learn how it worked (Halberstam 99). Ford was well on his way to becoming a marvel of modern business techniques.
             As Henry started to get a grasp on the life around him, he began to realize that farming was not for him despite his father's protests for him to follow in his footsteps and become a farmer. So when he was seventeen, he moved to Detroit and received a job working at James Flower & Brothers. He managed to make ends meet by cleaning clocks for an extra few dollars a week (Halberstam 99). It was here where Ford had his first idea of mass production. In his head, he proposed that he could produce the same thirty cent watch two thousand times a day by simplifying the production. He didn't accept the challenge though because he did not want to try and find a market for 600,000 watches a year, but he kept the basic idea of mass production in mind (Halberstam 99-100). He then took a job at the Detroit Dry Docks that specialized in the fabrication of large boats such as tugs, barges and ferries. Ford's job for the next two ye...