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Henry Ford

1863 – 1947 American industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company

Carmaker who brought the moving assembly line and the affordable Model T to mass production, and later spread antisemitic propaganda.

Affiliations
Ford Motor Company

Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 and made the automobile a mass-market product with the Model T. His introduction of the moving assembly line in 1913 and the five-dollar day reshaped manufacturing and industrial labour worldwide. He is also remembered for a darker record: he owned a newspaper that published a long antisemitic campaign, including The International Jew, material later admired by Nazi propagandists, and he ran his plants with aggressive anti-union security. He handed control of the company back late in life and died in 1947.

Connections

  • rival of Alfred P. Sloan — Sloan's GM overtook Ford by offering a car for every purse and purpose.
  • associate of Frederick Winslow Taylor — Fordism industrialized the time-and-motion logic Taylor set out.
  • associate of Lee Iacocca — Rose to president of the Ford Motor Company the founder built, before leading Chrysler's rescue.
  • associate of Thomas Edison — Ford was once his employee and became a close friend.
  • associate of Thomas Edison — Worked as an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company and became a close friend of Edison.

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