SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZA-SENA

Técnico en contabilización de operaciones comerciales y financieras

Actividad: Crónica

Crónica

Aprendiz:

Juan Esteban Zea Tirado

CC: 1046910087

Instructora:

Jenny Perdomo

Servicio Nacional de
Aprendizaje
SENA
Febrero 2024
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Técnico en contabilización de operaciones comerciales y financieras
Actividad: Crónica

HENRY
Henry
FORDFord was born on July 30 the 1863
Dearborn, which is a city located in Wayne County
in

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 in mass. Ford began his
career as a racing driver and maintained his interest
in racing from 1909 to 1913, Ford took the Model 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 registered patents in that country. As the sole owner of the Ford
company, he became one of the best known and richest people in the world. 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
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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.