[sinanju]

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.

[beaver fever]

"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.