More books have been written about auto pioneer Henry Ford than any other person in the car business. Though he had critics, the judgment of history is that he put the world on wheels with his famous Model T. But less well known is the fierce independent streak that led him to wage a lone…
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The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation is a weekly Saturday morning show on CBS that showcases present-day change-makers from all over the world who are creating solutions to real needs. It is hosted by news correspondent and CBS Sunday Morning regular Mo Rocca. Each episode presents stories related to the process of innovation and also includes…
Henry Ford was the industrialist founder of the Ford Motor Company, and innovator of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. He was born in the American state of Michigan to William and Mary Ford. He was not the inventor of automobile, which is generally accredited wrongly to him. However, he manufactured…
Biographies > Inventors and Scientists Occupation: Businessman and Inventor Best known for: Founder of the Ford Motor Company and helped develop the assembly line for mass production Biography: Henry Ford is most famous for founding the Ford Motor Company. Ford is still one of the world’s largest producers of cars including brands such as Ford,…
James Couzens was right when he proclaimed, on more than one occasion, that his business partner Henry Ford was a genius. Today there are many stories and examples that support that assertion by Mr. Couzens but it is important to understand the impact Mr. Ford’s genius and accomplishments have had on our lives. Without that…
The time was the early 1900s. The nation was in the midst of an industrial and manufacturing revolution, and Detroit was at the forefront – led primarily by automotive pioneer Henry Ford. After years of inventing motorized vehicles, Henry Ford founded Ford Motor Company in 1903. Within the first few months, Ford was selling the…
Kennedy’s Death Car (a 1961 Lincoln) and an exhibit of fast food signage. The Henry Ford Museum* (and its outdoor Greenfield Village) is a 254-acre attraction in the process of metamorphosis. Once a vast, humorless collection amassed by a vastly humorless man, it has slowly been transformed by the forces of pop culture and light…
Eye color: Brown Black (when using Sin Eating powers) “You needed faith, my dear Ichabod, and I gave it to you, both of you, in your desire to be reunited — and to Abigail, who so desperately needs to believe there’s a purpose to her pain. See, faith is a pillar of human nature. The…
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There is no record of Henry Ford having ever said this, in a serious tone. In his autobiography, he mentions it as a statement to his salespeople, but the reality is that the Model T was available in a wide range of colors, including fire-engine red, and hunter green. From his autobiography, Chapter Four: This…
Cars changed the way people lived, worked, and enjoyed leisure time; however, what most people don’t realize is that the process of manufacturing automobiles had an equally significant impact on industry. The creation of the assembly line by Henry Ford at his Highland Park plant, introduced on December 1, 1913, revolutionized the automobile industry and…
It was on October 1, 1908, just about a month before William Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan for the Presidency of the United States, that the Ford Motor Company unveiled the little machine that many historians think of as the most significant automobile of all time – the 1908-1927 Ford Model T. Still, its…
Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration German diplomats award Henry Ford, center, with their nation’s highest decoration for foreigners, the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, in July 1938. (AP Photo) Three years after Swiss banks became the target of a worldwide furor over their business dealings with Nazi Germany, major American car…
Cancer of the head and neck is a little known type of cancer but it affects more than 55, 000 people in the U.S. each year and accounts for approximately 3 percent of all cancer cases in the country. This type of cancer can occur in the mouth, throat, larynx (voice box), swallowing passages, nasal…
Henry Ford once sued the Chicago Tribune for slander because it called him an ignorant anarchist. In court, the defense attorney decided to demonstrate Ford’s ignorance and lack of patriotism by asking him basic American history questions. The automobile tycoon consistently missed these questions, and court transcripts of his buffoonery became popular reading at the…
Henry Ford for Kids provides an in-depth portrait of the man who “put America on wheels.” You’ll learn about Ford’s childhood on a Michigan farm, where the budding engineer loved to take apart and reassamble everything from toys to watches to machinery; about his revolutionary labor ideas, including paying higher wages and hiring women and…
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste, said Ford. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Indeed, Fords devotion to his business was what propelled him to…
Despite its initial humble appearance, the Model T became the most influential car of the 20th-century. Priced so that the average American could afford it, Henry Ford sold his Model T from 1908 until 1927. Many also may know the Model T by its nickname, the “Tin Lizzie.” But how did the Model T get…
These photographs are part of an album compiled by the nature writer John Burroughs and published after his death in 1921. In it, Burroughs documents a 12-day car-camping trip he took in 1918 at the age of 81, along with 71-year-old Thomas Edison and their younger friends, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone. This trip was…