Given his contributions, it’s no surprise that he eventually left Ford to start his own company, Wills Sainte Claire. An Affordable Design In the early 20th century, Ford was already thriving.

The Ford Model T, produced from 1908 to 1926, is a car that revolutionized transportation. During the early 1900s, cars were still rare, expensive and terribly unreliable, the Model T changed all of ...