Longtime tinkerer and self-trained engineer, Henry Ford developed a method of building an automobile and in … established a manufacturing company in an old wagon factory. Beset with legal challenges from patent holders who demanded a license to use internal-combustion and other technology, Ford worked independently to improve his car designs with the Model T appearing in … its popularity massive and its technology distinguished by its being produced on what would thereafter be referred to as an assembly line. Ford modified and improved the assembly line…