Henry Ford's Own Story: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Henry Ford's Own Story, credited to Rose Wilder Lane, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Henry Ford's Own Story, by Rose Wilder Lane. Read by Lee Ann Howlett. Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little House" series of popular children's books. In this biography of Henry Ford, Ms. Lane worked directly with Ford to tell his story from his birth to his founding of the Ford Motor Company and his use of modern assembly lines to mass produce his cars.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Henry Ford's Own Story
• Author credits: Rose Wilder Lane
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 4:27:07

Catalogue topics

• librvox
• audio
• ford
• biography

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Foreword — 5:39
2. 01 - One Summer's Day — 8:35
3. 02 - Mending a Watch — 9:44
4. 03 - The First Job — 7:59
5. 04 - An Exacting Routine — 8:30
6. 05 - Getting The Machine Idea — 9:06
7. 06 - Back To The Farm — 9:48
8. 07 - The Road To Hymen — 8:54
9. 08 - Making A Farm Efficient — 8:35
10. 09 - The Lure Of The Machine Shops — 7:58
11. 10 - 'Why not use Gasoline' — 8:53
12. 11 - Back To Detroit — 7:38
13. 12 - Learning About Electricity — 7:31
14. 13 - Eight Hours, But Not For Himself — 8:27
15. 14 - Struggling With The First Car — 9:01
16. 15 - A Ride In The Rain — 8:23
17. 16 - Enter Cofffee Jim — 8:29
18. 17 - Another Eight Years — 8:24
19. 18 - Winning A Race — 8:40
20. 19 - Raising Capital — 8:24
21. 20 - Clinging To A Principle — 8:56
22. 21 - Early Manufacturing Trials — 10:00
23. 22 - Automobiles For The Masses — 8:41
24. 23 - Fighting The Seldon Patent — 8:41

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