The car was invented just a century ago. You may know all kinds of the car names,1many people don't know2the inventor of the first car was. The first car was invented by an American.3name was Henry Ford.

Henry was born in4poor family. He was the5ofsix children. When he was a boy, he6interested in7watches and machines. When he was twelveyears old, his mother died. Soon he8to work in a machine shop for two dollarsand fifty cents a week.

At that time, there was another interest in the life of the young Ford. He dreamed of making a machine that could run without horses, so he named it "horseless carriage". He overcame a lot of difficulties and9April 1893, the "horseless carriage" was finally finished: it was the first car.

10Henry Ford founded the Ford motor Company. He was really the first inventor of the car in the world.