Henry Ford
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Henry Ford was an American businessman who lived from 1863 to 1947 and became one of the most influential industrial figures of his time. He matters because he revolutionized manufacturing and transportation, though the full scope of his impact—both positive and negative—continues to be studied and debated by historians.
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- 1863-07-30
- Died
- 1947-04-07
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- 120
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- The Amazing Story Of Henry Ford
- Today and Tomorrow
- Autobiography Collection
- My life and work
- Henry Ford's Lessons on Starting a Business
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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.
Ford was born in a farmhouse in Greenfield Township, Michigan, and left home at the age of 16 to find work in Detroit. It was a few years before this time that Ford first experienced automobiles, and throughout the later half of the 1880s, he began repairing and later constructing engines, and through the 1890s worked with a division of Edison Electric. He founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 after prior failures in business, but was successful in constructing automobiles.
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