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Henry Ford
Henry Ford 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.
business · American business magnate (1863–1947) · also Henry Ford, Ford
Born 30 July 1863 · Died 7 April 1947 · Q8768
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“Jeśli sądzisz, że potrafisz to masz rację. Jeśli sądzisz, że nie potrafisz – również masz rację.”
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“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present… (ang.)”
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“Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.”
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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.”
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“Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish, or arrogant, or greedy, the money brings it out; that's all.”
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“There Is Always Room for More”
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“If they want to elect me, let them do so, but I won”
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“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
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“did not see the use of experimenting with electricity, due to the expense of trolley wires, and”
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euromotor.app: Ford Racing regresa al Vegas to Reno con el Raptor T1+ y su alineación de camionetas off-road
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Statistically valid Henry Ford Health study found exposure to vaccination was associated with an overall 2.5-fold increase in the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition.” Flunked Review.
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Reported claimRated False. The image is AI generated and bears no resemblance to Henry Ford or his first vehicle. · AAP
AAP rated the claim “A photo shows Henry Ford sitting in his first automobile in 1896.” False. The image is AI generated and bears no resemblance to Henry Ford or his first vehicle..
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USA Today rated the claim “Henry Ford responsible for 8-hour workday, 40-hour work week, ‘living wage’” Partly False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Henry Ford built a car with an exterior body made of soybean plastic in the 1940s.” True.
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AP News rated the claim “Henry Ford said” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Photographs illustrate a trip to San Francisco in 1940 as described in a letter by Henry Ford.” Miscaptioned.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “The brothers who invented automobile air conditioning pulled a fast one on Henry Ford.” False.
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Ford was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame for his impact on the industry
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Left most of his wealth to the Ford Foundation and control of the company to his family
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The Willow Run plant produced 650 B-24s per month, and by 1945, Ford was completing each B-24 in eighteen hours, with one rolling off the assembly line every 58 minutes
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At age 49, Henry Ford nominally resumed control of the company, but a series of strokes in the late 1930s had left him increasingly debilitated, and his mental ability was fading
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Ford resumed control of the company, but was too frail to make decisions and quickly came under the control of several of his subordinates
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“any agitation which would promote antagonism toward my Jewish fellow citizens”
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“It was one of the most sensible things Harry Bennett ever did when he got the UAW into this plant.”
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With the requisitioning of between 100 and 200 French POWs to work as slave laborers, Ford-Werke contravened Article 31 of the 1929 Geneva Convention
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Went so far as to claim that the torpedoing of U
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As a mid-range make to challenge Dodge and Buick, although Henry also displayed relatively little enthusiasm for it
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Reported that he did not want to trade with belligerents
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Bennett's security men beat members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), including Walter Reuther, with clubs
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When the Ford Airplane Division shut down because of poor sales during the Great Depression
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During the Great Depression, unemployed Detroit auto workers staged the Ford Hunger March to the Ford River Rouge Complex to present 14 demands to Henry Ford
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To a Detroit News reporter, Hitler said, "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," explaining his reason for keeping a life-size portrait of Ford behind his desk
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And Henry had initially considered a radical X-8 engine before agreeing to a conventional design
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The Ford Motor Company's factory workers switched to a five-day, 40-hour workweek, with the company's office workers making the transition the following August
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Ford received Kurt Ludecke, a representative of Hitler, at home
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Heinrich Himmler described Ford as "one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters"
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Ford also purchased Lincoln Motor Co
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When Ford and Crowther described it as six 8-hour days, giving a 48-hour week, but in 1926 it was announced as five 8-hour days, giving a 40-hour week
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Woodrow Wilson joined other leading Americans in a statement that rebuked Ford and others for their antisemitic campaign
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Was also kept in production, untouched for a decade until it became too outdated
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Ford's paper began publishing a series of articles in the paper, claiming a vast Jewish conspiracy was affecting America
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“If fans wish to know the trouble with American baseball they have it in three words—too much Jew.”
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Ford wrote, "If fans wish to know the trouble with American baseball they have it in three words—too much Jew
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Ford sued the Chicago Tribune for libel after the Tribune called him an “anarchist” in an editorial
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Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent
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With the war on and the League of Nations a growing issue in global politics, President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, encouraged Ford to run for a Michigan seat in the U
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Ford went quiet on foreign policy
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And Ford calling soldiers “murderers
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The pacifist Rosika Schwimmer gained favor with Ford, who agreed to fund a Peace Ship to Europe, where World War I was raging
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Ford blamed "German-Jewish bankers" for instigating the war
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By offering a $5 daily wage ($161 in 2025), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers
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Ford introduced moving assembly belts into his plants, which enabled an enormous increase in production
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Was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles
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Ford applied for a patent on his new transmission mechanism
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Is credited with having revolutionized both transportation and American industry
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($29,560 today), with the price falling every year, that by the 1920s, a majority of American drivers had learned to drive on the Model T
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After prior failures in business, but was successful in constructing automobiles
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With Ford as chief engineer
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Ford attended a meeting of Edison executives, where he was introduced to Thomas Edison
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Eventually building three of them in his home workshop
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With the completion of a self-propelled automobile, which he named the Ford Quadricycle
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“Masonry is the best balance wheel the United States has.”
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Had enough time and money to devote attention to his experiments on gasoline engines
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I completed my first motor car, powered by a two-cylinder four horsepower motor, with a two-and-half-inch bore and a six-inch stroke, which was connected to a countershaft by a belt and then to the rear wheel by a chain
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Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit
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Ford started work on a two-cylinder engine
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And supported himself by farming and running a sawmill
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Ford repaired an Otto engine, and in 1887, he built a four-cycle model with a one-inch bore and a three-inch stroke
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Returned to Dearborn to work on the family farm, where he became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine
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Ford left home to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit, first with James F
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When he was 12: he received the watch, and he witnessed the operation of a Nichols and Shepard road engine, "
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