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NATIONAL LEARNING CENTER

CRONICA

GA2-240202501-AA2-EV01

APPRENTICE

SARAY ORTIZ CAMPILLO

FICHA: 2721872

INSTRUCTOR

CLAUDIA LINARES

(Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje)

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Brief Chronicle of the Life of Henry Ford

Henry Ford was born on July 30 the 1863 in Dearborn, which is a city located in Wayne County
in the state of Michigan; and died April 7 the 1947. He was an businessman and entrepreneur,
founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern production inmass.

Ford began his career as a racing driver and maintained his interest in racing from 1909 to
1913, Ford took the Model T to the races, finishing first (although he was later disqualified)
in a race across the USA in 1909, and setting the one-mile speed record in Detroit in 1911.
In 1913, Ford tried to enter a new Model T in the Indianapolis 500, but was told that regulations
required that about 1,000 pounds of weight be added to the car to participate in the race. Ford
withdrew from the race and soon left racing permanently citing dissatisfaction with the rules
of the sport and the demands of the time.

The introduction of the Ford T in the automobile market revolutionized transportation and
industry in the United States. He was a prolific inventor who obtained 161 registeredpatents
in that country. As the sole owner of the Ford company, he became one of the best known
and richest people in the world.
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He is credited with Fordism, a system that spread between the late 1930s and early 1970s
and which he created by manufacturing large numbers of low-cost automobiles through mass
production.

His global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace, is the key to his success. His intense
commitment to cost reduction led to a host of business and technical inventions, including a
franchise system that established a dealership in every city in the United States and Canada
and in major cities on five continents.

Ford left much of his vast fortune to the Ford Foundation, but he also ensured that his
family controlled the company permanently.

His health failing, Ford turned over the presidency of the company to his grandson, Henry
Ford II, in September 1945 and retired. He died on April 7, 1947, of a brain hemorrhage on
Fair Lane on his property in Dearborn, at the age of 83. A public viewing was held in
Greenfield Village, where up to 5,000 people per hour passed the casket. Funeral services
were held at the Detroit Cathedral Church of St. Paul and he was buried in Ford Cemetery
in Detroit