Henry Ford built a car with an exterior body made of soybean plastic in the 1940s ... Mr. Overlay recalls that the first time Mr. Ford struck it with an axe the deck lid cracked and the axe head ...

Henry Ford didn’t just build a car—he built a system that reshaped the world. This is the story of the Model T and the birth of the moving assembly line.

Sure, you can read about the Wright brothers in a book and learn how they converted their knowledge of bicycles into the ...

Finding first-generation Ford Mustangs in barns is quite common nowadays, but most of them are mundane cars with regular specs. From time to time, however, classic car prospectors stumble upon ...

The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation noted that the soybean car was unveiled at the annual Dearborn Days celebration on Aug. 13, 1941, and then trucked to the Michigan State Fairgrounds. "By ...

Automotive pioneer Henry Ford struck gold with the Ford Model T in 1908, but the road to success wasn't smooth.Ford built his first one-cylinder gas engine in 1893 and created his first car ...

DETROIT – On June 4, 1896, after years of experimentation and tinkering, a 32-year-old Henry Ford completed his first automobile. The Quadricycle was built by hand by Ford at his home, and its 2 ...

While Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company helped shaped modern car production, it wasn't one of his cars that was the first mass-produced car in America.

But Ford, who certainly stands out among those pioneers, wasn’t the first person to drive a gas-powered car "of his own making," as it's been described, on the streets of Detroit.

DETROIT – On June 4, 1896, after years of experimentation and tinkering, a 32-year-old Henry Ford completed his first automobile. The Quadricycle was built by hand by Ford at his home, and its 2 ...