This document provides biographical information about Henry Ford, the American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company. It details how Ford showed an early interest in mechanics and tinkering, eventually leaving home at age 15 to work as an apprentice machinist. By the 1890s, Ford was working as an engineer and using his personal time and money to experiment with vehicle designs, building his first car in 1896. In 1903, Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company and released the Model T car in 1908, going on to revolutionize the automobile industry through mass production techniques like the assembly line. The document outlines Ford's business philosophies around paying workers higher wages and offering profit sharing plans. It chronicles the

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WHO IS THIS PERSON ?

3. LOGO OF FORD

4. Born on July 30, 1863 in
greenfield township,
Dearborn, Michingan, U.S
Loved tinkering with things
as kid.

5.  At an early age he
showed interest in
mechanical things
At 12, he spent a lot of
time in a machine
shop, which he had
equipped himself. By
15, he had built his first
internal combustion
engine.
In 1879 he left home for
the nearby city of Detroit
to work as an apprentice
machinist, first with James
F. Flower & Bros.

6. And later with the
Detroit Dry Dock Co.
After completion of his
apprenticeship, Ford
got a job with the
Westinghouse
company working on
gasoline engines. Upon
his marriage to Clara
Bryant in 1888 Ford
supported himself by
running a sawmill.

7. In 1891 Ford became
an engineer with the
Edison Illuminating
Company and became
chief engineer in 1893.
Now he had enough
time and money to
devote attention to his
personal experiments

8. In 1896 he made his
first vehicle
“Quadricycle”
 this was the first
automobile he ever
drove.
Left Edison
Illuminating and with
some investors formed
Detroit Automobile
Company.

9. The Detroit Automobile
Company, however, went
bankrupt soon afterward
because Ford continued to
improve the design
instead of selling cars.
Ford raced his vehicles
against those of other
manufacturers to show the
superiority of his designs.
With the interest in his
race cars, he formed a
second company, the
Henry Ford Company.

10. During this period, he
personally drove his
Quadricycle to victory
in a race against
Alexander Winton, a
well-known driver and
the heavy favorite on
October 10, 1901. Ford
was forced out of the
company by the
investors, including
Henry M. Leland in
1902, and the
company was
reorganized as Cadillac.

11. Henry Ford, with
eleven other investors
and $28,000 in capital,
incorporated the Ford
Motor Company in
1903. In a newly-
designed car.
The Model T
In 1908, the Ford
company released the
Model T. From 1909 to
1913

12. The Model T
In 1908, the Ford
company released the
Model T. From 1909 to
1913.
Henry Ford did not
invent the automobile or
the assembly line. He
did, however, change
the world by using an
assembly line technique
to produce cars which
could be afforded by
everyone. From 1909 to
1927, the Ford Motor
Company built more
than 15 million Model T
cars.

14. Henry Ford had very
specific thoughts on
relations with his
employees. They were
expected to work an
eight-hour day, and in
1913 were paid a
handsome $5 per day.
The pay rate increased
to $6 per day at the
peak of Model T
production in 1918; such
a sum for laborers
was, at the time, almost
unheard-of. Ford also
offered his employees
an innovative profit-
sharing plan.

15. Ford was a complex
man. For announcing
that he would pay his
workers $5 a day (nearly
twice the prevailing
rate), he was hailed as a
great humanitarian and
branded a mad socialist.
He favored an almost
monarchist business
philosophy, with himself
in the role of benevelent
but totally sovereign
king.

16. Ford was against labour
unions in his plants. To
forestall union
activity, he hired Harry
Bennett.
The most famous
incident, in 1937, was
a bloody brawl
between company
security men and
organizers that
became known as The
Battle of the Overpass.

17. Henry Ford, with his son
Edsel, founded the Ford
Foundation in 1936 as a
local philanthropy in the
state of Michigan with a
broad charter to promote
human welfare. The
Foundation has grown
immensely and by 1950
had become national and
international in scope.
The foundation no longer
has any association with
the Ford Motor
Company, nor with the
family or descendants of
Henry Ford.

18. Henry Ford survived a
stroke in 1938 when he
turned over the business
to his son Edsel, but
when his son died in
1943 Henry took over
once again. 1945 saw
him retire again with
health problems, and
handing over presidency
to his grandson Henry
Ford II. Henry died in
1947 of a cerebral
hemorrhage at age 83 in
Fair Lane, and was
buried in the Ford
Cemetery in Detroit.

19. "History is more or less
bunk. It's tradition. We
don't want tradition.
We want to live in the
present, and the only
history that is worth a
tinker's damn is the
history we make
today." - 1916