Can you help explain these questions about Henry Ford?

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What were the traits that helped Henry Ford to become the greatest industrialist of the early twentieth century?

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What techniques did Henry Ford incorporate to turn his small automobile company into the giant Ford Motor Company?
I know a little about the assembly line but not much. Could you elaborate on it more and add a little more information please?
 
The reason that Henry was so successful was because his goal was to put the world on wheels. To do this, he offered the famous "$5 a day" wages, and brought tons of people to Detroit, which basically created the middle class. The cars were also pretty affordable for how extravagant they seemed, and Henry took criticism for this. He could have theoretically made soooo much more money if he charged more for his cars and paid his workers less.

The assembly line was designed to help speed production of the cars. If one man assembled one car by himself, he had to know how to put everything together and had to go around to different parts of the factory to get the necessary parts. By creating the assembly lines, certain workers specialized in certain areas where they became efficient at their jobs since the parts were right there and the repetition made it easy.

Hope this helped.
 
An assembly line is an arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed. Also called production line, or a process in which finished products are turned out in a mechanically efficient, though impersonal, manner: a university that functions as a sports assembly line.
 
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