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Brief Chronicle of the Life of Henry Ford
Brief Chronicle of the Life of Henry Ford Henry Ford was born on July 30 the 1863 in Dearborn,
which is a city located in Wayne County in the state of Michigan; and died April 7 the 1947. He was
an businessman and entrepreneur, founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of
modern production in mass.
Ford began his career as a racing driver and maintained his interest in racing from 1909 to 1913,
Ford took the Model T to the races, finishing first (although he was later disqualified) in a race
across the USA in 1909, and setting the one-mile speed record in Detroit in 1911. In 1913, Ford
tried to enter a new Model T in the Indianapolis 500, but was told that regulations
required that about 1,000 pounds of weight be added to the car to participate in the race. Ford
withdrew from the race and soon left racing permanently citing dissatisfaction with the rules of
the sport and the demands of the time.
The introduction of the Ford T in the automobile market revolutionized transportation and
industry in the United States. He was a prolific inventor who obtained 161 registered
patents in that country. As the sole owner of the Ford company, he became one of the best known
and richest people in the world.
He is credited with Fordism, a system that spread between the late 1930s and early 1970s and
which he created by manufacturing large numbers of low-cost automobiles through mass
production.
His global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace, is the key to his success. His intense
commitment to cost reduction led to a host of business and technical inventions, including a
franchise system that established a dealership in every city in the United States and Canada and in
major cities on five continents.
Ford left much of his vast fortune to the Ford Foundation, but he also ensured that his
family controlled the company permanently. His health failing, Ford turned over the presidency of
the company to his grandson, Henry Ford II, in September 1945 and retired. He died on April 7,
1947, of a brain hemorrhage on Fair Lane on his property in Dearborn, at the age of 83. A
public viewing was held in Greenfield Village, where up to 5,000 people per hour passed the
casket. Funeral services were held at the Detroit Cathedral Church of St. Paul and he was buried in
Ford Cemetery in Detroit