ars was to work on engines and he loved every minute of it. It was here where Henry had witnessed his first internal combustion engine that would eventually be placed in Ford's automobiles (Ford 1). William Ford, as a last ditch effort to get his son to become a farmer, offered Henry eighty acres of land in 1882. Surprisingly enough Ford took his father up on the offer because of the need of stability as he was about to marry Clara Bryant. His time on the farm did not go to waste though. He spent hours inventing gasoline powered plows and other machines. Finally, in 1891, Ford and Clara moved back to Detroit. Ford believed that he could build a horseless carriage but in order to do so, he needed to learn more (Halberstam 100). Ford then wanted to pursue more information on electricity, so he applied and received a job at Thomas Edison's Detroit Illuminating Company, and he quickly became the chief engineer. In his spare time, Ford attempted to build his first car; Ford referred to it as a Quadricycle (Ford 1).
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