If you want to get excited about prewar cars, look into the Old Car Festival, held at the beginning of September in Greenfield Village by The Henry Ford. First held in 1951, “Old Car Fest” is the ...

Henry Ford was an American inventor and business ... By the age of 15, he had built a steam engine. His career began with an apprenticeship in Detroit in 1879, which lasted until 1882.

Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during ... advancing from machine-shop apprentice to chief engineer. In 1893, Ford built a gasoline engine, and within a few years, an automobile, still a novelty ...