Biography of Henry ford

American businessman (Dearborn, Michigan, 1863-1947) was born in a family of Irish

immigrants who lived on a farm and had six children. He began his career as a machinist in
1879; he worked for the firm Westinghouse and Edison Illuminating Company. As soon as the
Germans Daimler and Benz began to market the first cars (around 1885), Ford was interested
in the invention and began to build their own prototypes. However, his first attempts failed.
It did not achieve success until his third business venture, launched in 1903: the Ford Motor
Company. It was to make simple and cheap automobiles destined to the massive consumption
of the average American family; until then the car had been an object of artisan manufacture
and prohibitive cost, intended for a limited audience. With his Model T, Ford put the
automobile within reach of the middle classes, introducing the era of mass consumption;
thereby it contributed to drastically alter the habits of life and work and the appearance of
cities, conjuring up the "civilization of automobile" of the twentieth century.

The first car models:

In 1893 he designed the first gasoline-powered vehicle, the quad. However, the first company
of Ford, Detroit Automobile, disappeared in 1901 amid complaints of poor quality of its cars
and high prices.
In 1902, the businessman left his second company, Henry Ford Co. for a dispute with a
partner.
In 1908 he developed the Model T, but the third company engineer, Ford Motor Co., also
narrowly fails when the first car sales were not massive enough to repay the loans it had
requested.
Biography of Karl Benz

Karl Benz was born on November 25, 1844 in Karlsruhe, Germany. In the Polytechnic of his
town he studied mechanical engineering, graduating just 20 years. He then worked for a
foundry, but always thinking about starting your own business.

Shortly afterwards he gathered some capital, and with a partner, opened a garage. Although
the business was short-lived, Benz was not discouraged and started to study and develop
various types of engines on their own. In 1878 he developed an internal combustion engine of
two-stroke and four-stroke forward. In 1885 he built the tricycle that made him famous: it was
one of the internal combustion engine, one cylinder and 0.88 HP. but during initial testing in
Munich, tricycle engine failed again and again, being teased the audience. But the first step
was taken and obtained the patent as the creator of the first vehicle able to move itself with
an internal combustion engine.

Time later he allied with Gottlieb Daimler and built the first car. Together they created the
automobile construction company known today as Mercedes Benz. Unlike Daimler Benz if he
could see the emergence and success of his first mark before he died, April 4, 1929 in
Ladenburg, Germany.
Biography of Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche (September 3, 1875 - January 30, 1951) Austrian engineer, founder-
designer of the office of automobile studies German Porsche. Creator of Volkswagen Type 1
(Beetle). Ferdinand Porsche and his son Ferdinand Anton, known as Ferry Porsche created in
1931 the car company Porsche AG.
Porsche was born in a German-speaking family Maffersdorf (Vratislavice nad Nisou), Bohemia,
the then Austro-Hungarian Empire. His birthplace is part of the present city of Liberec, in the
Czech Republic. Porsche is known for having designed the Volkswagen Type 1, having
designed many successful projects in motorsports (As known Autounion P) and his
contributions in advanced designs of German tanks: a prototype Tiger I that lost Henschel
against the model, the P2-Turm turret of the Tiger II and the Elefant, built with obsolete
chassis prototype Tiger I.
In 1937, Adolf Hitler awarded Porsche the German National Prize of Arts and Sciences, one of
the rarest decorations in the Third Reich. Dr. Porsche is considered one of the geniuses of
automotive design.