He was born on July 30, 1863, on his family's farm near Dearborn, Michigan. Ford enjoyed mechanical work and tinkering with cars. In 1896 Ford built his first horse-drawn carriage. He called it The Ford Quadricycle. That same year he collaborated with Thomas Edison, another brilliant inventor who helped and encouraged Ford to build a second and improved form of the horse-drawn carriage. After a few years, Ford began working on vehicles instead of horse-drawn carriages, and in 1903 he founded the Ford Motor Company. In 1908 he had an idea for an automobile, tried to put the puzzle together, finally put it together and built a car and called it the Model T. The orders were coming in, order after order, to the point where Ford had to stop taking orders. His people worked by hand and could only produce 25 cars a day, but 25 cars were not enough. Henry Ford and his engineers had a mind-blowing idea, the "moving assembly line," that would make building a car faster and more effective.