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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.
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business · American business magnate (1863–1947) · entrepreneur · inventor · writer · politician · racing automobile driver · journalist · industrialist · business magnate · editor · engineer · also Henry Ford, Ford
Born 30 July 1863 · Died 7 April 1947 · Q8768
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2026· 12 entries
“Kiedy wszystko wydaje się być przeciwko tobie pamiętaj, że samolot wznosi się pomimo wiatru, a nie z nim.”
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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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2025· 2 entries
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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2024· 3 entries
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.com rated the claim “Henry Ford built a car with an exterior body made of soybean plastic in the 1940s.” True.
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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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2022· 1 entry
AP News rated the claim “Henry Ford said” False.
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2014· 2 entries
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 “Photographs illustrate a trip to San Francisco in 1940 as described in a letter by Henry Ford.” Miscaptioned.
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2013· 1 entry
“30 мыслей Генри Форда о труде, бизнесе и машинах. // interfax.ru (2013-07-30). Проверено 9 декабря 2015.”
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded American Royal BBQ Hall of Fame (2012).
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“Генри Форд Моя жизнь. Мои достижения = My Life and Work. — Астрель, 2012. — 349 с. — ISBN 978-5-271-41904-1”
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2004· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “The brothers who invented automobile air conditioning pulled a fast one on Henry Ford.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “The brothers who invented automobile air conditioning pulled a fast one on Henry Ford.” False.
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1985· 1 entry
Ford was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame for his impact on the industry
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1982).
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1947· 10 entries
Died 1947-04-07.
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“if there is any secret of success it lies in the ability to get another person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.”
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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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“Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can't, you're right”
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“an idealists I think, is a person that can help make people prosperous.”
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“only history that is wor-th a tinker's damn is the history we make We want to live in the present, and the today.”
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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason who so few people engage in it.”
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“Se o dinheiro for a sua esperança de independência, você jamais a terá. A única segurança verdadeira consiste numa reserva de sabedoria, de experiência e de competência.”
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals”
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“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”
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1944· 2 entries
Awarded Washington Award (1944).
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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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1943· 2 entries
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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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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1942· 1 entry
“any agitation which would promote antagonism toward my Jewish fellow citizens”
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1941· 1 entry
“It was one of the most sensible things Harry Bennett ever did when he got the UAW into this plant.”
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1940· 1 entry
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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1939· 4 entries
Won James Watt International Medal (1939).
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Reported that he did not want to trade with belligerents
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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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1938· 2 entries
Awarded Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (1938).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle (1938).
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1937· 1 entry
Bennett's security men beat members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), including Walter Reuther, with clubs
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1936· 1 entry
Won Holley Medal (1936).
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1933· 1 entry
When the Ford Airplane Division shut down because of poor sales during the Great Depression
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1932· 1 entry
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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1931· 1 entry
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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1930· 1 entry
And Henry had initially considered a radical X-8 engine before agreeing to a conventional design
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1928· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1928).
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1926· 1 entry
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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1924· 2 entries
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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1922· 2 entries
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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1921· 1 entry
Woodrow Wilson joined other leading Americans in a statement that rebuked Ford and others for their antisemitic campaign
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1920· 4 entries
Was also kept in production, untouched for a decade until it became too outdated
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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'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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1919· 1 entry
Ford sued the Chicago Tribune for libel after the Tribune called him an “anarchist” in an editorial
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1918· 2 entries
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 purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent
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1917· 1 entry
Ford went quiet on foreign policy
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1916· 1 entry
And Ford calling soldiers “murderers
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1915· 2 entries
Ford blamed "German-Jewish bankers" for instigating the war
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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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1914· 1 entry
By offering a $5 daily wage ($161 in 2025), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers
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1913· 1 entry
Ford introduced moving assembly belts into his plants, which enabled an enormous increase in production
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1911· 1 entry
Was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles
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1909· 1 entry
Ford applied for a patent on his new transmission mechanism
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1908· 2 entries
($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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Is credited with having revolutionized both transportation and American industry
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1906· 1 entry
Career landmark: CEO of Ford Motor Company (1906–1945).
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1903· 2 entries
After prior failures in business, but was successful in constructing automobiles
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Career landmark: founder (1903).
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1901· 1 entry
With Ford as chief engineer
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1896· 3 entries
Eventually building three of them in his home workshop
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Ford attended a meeting of Edison executives, where he was introduced to Thomas Edison
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With the completion of a self-propelled automobile, which he named the Ford Quadricycle
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1894· 1 entry
“Masonry is the best balance wheel the United States has.”
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1893· 1 entry
Had enough time and money to devote attention to his experiments on gasoline engines
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1892· 1 entry
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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1891· 1 entry
Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit
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1890· 1 entry
Ford started work on a two-cylinder engine
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1888· 1 entry
And supported himself by farming and running a sawmill
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1885· 1 entry
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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1882· 1 entry
Returned to Dearborn to work on the family farm, where he became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine
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1879· 1 entry
Ford left home to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit, first with James F
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1875· 1 entry
When he was 12: he received the watch, and he witnessed the operation of a Nichols and Shepard road engine, "
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1863· 1 entry
Born 1863-07-30.
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