henry ford

     

Henry For (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line, coupled with high wages for his workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. Ford did not believe in accountants; he amassed one of the world's largest fortunes without ever having his company audited under his administration. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.

Trivia about henry ford

  • In 1916 he said, "The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today"
  • Born on a farm in Dearborn, Michigan in 1863, he repaired steam engines before building cars
  • In the 1930s he moved the Wright Bros.' home & bicycle workshop to Dearborn, Michigan
  • This industrialist from Michigan ran for the Senate in 1918, & lost
  • On June 4, 1896 he completed assembly of his first auto, the quadricycle, in Detroit
  • He'd build you a Model T "in any color, so long as it was black"
  • This Model T maker bought out his stockholders, calling them parasites
  • This man designed it in 1908
  • In June 1896 he completed his first automobile at his home on Bagley Avenue in Detroit
  • In 1930 this automaker co-wrote a book on Thomas Edison titled "Edison As I Know Him"
  • His grandson, the II, took over as president of his auto company in 1945 & ran it until 1980
  • This industrialist came off the assembly line July 30, 1863
  • In 1918 this automaker bought the Deaborn Independent, calling it the "chronicler of neglected truth"
  • In 1918 this automaker was nominated for a U.S. Senate seat from Michigan but narrowly lost the election
  • He unveiled the Model A in 1927
  • This auto tycoon's home was a 56-room mansion called "Fair Lane"
  • In 1915 this Michigan industrialist chartered a "peace ship" & sailed off to stop WWI
  • In 1968 a U.S. postage stamp was issued commemorating this automaker's 105th birthday
  • The American Chronicle says that in 1924 half a million people wrote this Michigander asking for money
  • In 1915 this industrialist headed the American Peace Ship delegation
  • His museum in Dearborn, Michigan was once known as "Henry's Attic"
  • Surprisingly, the Cadillac Motor Car Co. was founded by & originally named for this man
  • This industrialist's museum collection includes Thomas Edison's lab, electric light & gold teeth
  • In 1913 at a plant in Highland Park, Michigan, a car from his company became the first produced on an assembly line
  • In 1957 his Fair Lane estate was presented to the University of Michigan at Dearborn
  • This man finished his first effort, seen here, in 1896
  • He's been dubbed the "Father of the Flivver"
  • This industrialist stocked the woodlands around his home, Fair Lane, with about 300 deer
  • In 1893 he was chief engineer of Detroit's Edison Illuminating Company; 6 years later he'd form his own company
  • In 1941 this pioneering auto manufacturer made a car from resin-stiffened hemp fiber
  • At one of this man's auto plants, scrap wood was turned into charcoal & sold as briquettes