Henry Ford

Popa Diana Isabela

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16.03.2023
Who was Henry Ford ?
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business
magnate. He was the founder of Ford Motor Company,
and chief developer of the assembly line technique of
mass production.
Ford created the first automobile that middleclass
Americans could afford, and his conversion of the
automobile from an expensive luxury into an accessible
conveyance profoundly impacted the landscape of the
20th century.
Why is he considered one of the most important in
the history?
Ford spent most of his life making headlines, good, bad,
but never indifferent. Celebrated as both a technological
genius and a folk hero, Ford was the creative force behind
an industry of unprecedented size and wealth that in only
a few decades permanently changed the economic and
social character of the United States.
Once Ford realized the tremendous part he and his Model
T automobile had played in bringing about this change, he
wanted nothing more than to reverse it, or at least to
recapture the rural values of his boyhood. Henry Ford,
then, is an apt symbol of the transition from an
agricultural to an industrial America. -Henry Ford in his first car
Quadricycle
Henry Ford's early life
Henry Ford was one of eight children of William and Mary
Ford. He was born on the family farm near Dearborn,
Michigan, then a town eight miles west of Detroit.
Ford attended a one-room school for eight years when he was
not helping his father with the harvest. At age 16 he walked to
Detroit to find work in its machine shops. After three years,
during which he came in contact with the internal-combustion
engine for the first time, he returned to the farm, where he
worked part-time for the Westinghouse Engine Company and
in spare moments tinkered in a little machine shop he set up.
Eventually he built a small ''farm locomotive,'' a tractor that
used an old mowing machine for its chassis and a homemade
steam engine for power.
Henry Ford interest
Henry Ford had a long-held interest in materials science and engineering. He
enthusiastically described his company's adoption of vanadium steel alloys and
subsequent metallurgic R&D work.
Ford also had a long-standing interest in plastics developed from agricultural
products, particularly soybeans. He cultivated a relationship with George
Washington Carver for this purpose.
Ford was interested in engineered woods, corn as fuel source, via both corn oil and
ethanol and the potential uses of cotton.
Ford was instrumental in developing charcoal briquets, under the brand name
''KingsFord''. His brother-in-law, Edward G. Kingsford, used wood scraps from the
Ford factory to make the briquets.
5 interesting facts about Henry Ford
• Henry Ford was friends with Thomas Edison.
• Henry Ford raised a total of 188.1 billion dollars.
• Henry died at age 83, on April 7th, 1947.
• He built the Model A Ford car with his son.
• He bought an airplane company.
• He was a peaceful man, and didn't like when
America got involved in World War 1 and 2. -quotes
Bibliography
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Ford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford
Thank you !