Not many people know that Henry Ford's first claim to fame was as Thomas Alva Edison's chief engineer at his Menlo Park laboratory.
"Not many people know that Henry Ford's first claim to fame was as Thomas Alva Edison's chief engineer at his Menlo Park laboratory."
And Walter P Chrysler started out as a railroad mechnic.
The first thing he had to do as an apprentitice was to make is own tools. His tools are still on display in the Chrysler Building.