Henry Ford Biography

Henry Ford
Henry Ford oldest of six children was born on July 30, 1863, on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan. Over his childhood life he developed a dislike for the farm life and more of a fascination for machinery. He had little interest in school and was a poor student. He never learned to spell or to read well. Ford would write using simple sentences (Biography online.com). He instead preferred to work with mechanical objects, particularly watches.
He repaired his first watch when he was thirteen years old, and would continue to repair watches for enjoyment throughout his life. Although he did not like working on the farm, he did learn that there was great value in working hard and being responsible. After his mother passed away, Henry
While he was working as chief engineer at Edison’s he worked on a petrol drive quadricycle. His testing was a success and this enabled him to develop this into a small car. This proved the basis for the famous Model T motor shown in 1908. The Ford motor company was formed in 1903 with $28,000 from investors.
Henry Ford astonished the industrial world by offering a daily wage of $5 a day. Even by today’s salaries that is a very good salary for that time. He charged the price of the Fords at a very high price so the employees could afford the car they built. Henry Ford improved the product line. Although he did not invent the assembly line he did make one of the most successful ones.
Henry Ford had a strong dislike for war. He supported financially funded a peace ship to Europe in 1915. He spoke out against the people who wanted it. He allowed other officials in the Ford Company to transform Ford into one of the biggest military plane builders in the war. Ford was now known worldwide, but his public activities were less successful than his industrial ones. In 1915 his peace ship, the Oskar II, sailed to Europe to seek an end to World War I a war fought between the German-led Central powers and the Allies: England, the United States, Italy, and other
Senate as a Democrat was a defeat. Ford's worst mistake was his approval of an anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish) campaign waged by the Ford-owned newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. Ford gained most control of the company by buying the outstanding stock. In the early 1920s the company continued its quick growth, at one point producing 60 percent of the total United States output in transportation.
But problems began to arrive as the public tastes shifted. By the middle of the decade Ford had lost his dominant position to the General Motors Company. He finally saw his error and in 1927 stopped production of the Model T. However, since the new Model A was not produced for eighteen months, there was a good chance of unemployment among Ford workers. The new car still did not permanently override the GM competition, Chevrolet, and Ford remained second. Even today these companies are still neck and neck but Ford is continuing a dream Mr. Henry Wilson wanted an industrial mass production.
To me when I think of industrial mass production, I think of industrial satisfaction. This man impacts life in an industrial way. When I grow up and doing logistics, I’ll be using Ford no matter what the media says about this man’s life