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Henry Ford. He DID, after all, put America-And a lot of the rest of the world-on wheels. And at first, he was a fairly enlightened employer, paying his workers the then-unheard of wage of $5 a day back in 1914, plus he had an early form of profit-sharing as early as 1916. Despite the fact he is reputed to have said "History is Bunk", he spent millions on preserving it at his Greenfield Village, a re-creation of the America of his youth. And his contribution, the Model T, allowed millions of rural people to be freed from the drudgery of farm life, where you walked, rode a horse, or a bicycle if you wanted to get somewhere. Model Ts put the car in the price range of almost everyone-A NEW T could be had for as little as $260 in the late '20s. All those millions of cars going here & there required roads, so the T spurred development of a national hiway system. A T seems quaint & archaic now-They really were even when they were new, in some respects, but the 15 million of them made between 1908 & 1927 really changed this country fundamentally in many, many ways.
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