Henry Ford Biography
Henry Ford
Henry Ford (30 July 1863 - 07 April 1947) was the founder of Ford Motor Company in America . He was the father of the assembly line used to produce large amounts of modern era . Although Ford did not invent the assembly line , Ford built and developed the first automobile that many middle-class Americans could afford. They pulled out a vehicle named "Model T" which revolutionized the traffic and American industry. He was also a great inventor . He received 161 US patents . As the owner of Ford Company, he was one of the world's wealthiest and well known people. He has most of his estate Ford Foundation And made such arrangements that he would remain permanently in control of his own family.
Biography [ edit ]
Henry Ford was born Mishigan (Michigan) was in the town of Diyrborn State. His father was an Irishman, but with his parents and other relatives coming to America, settling around Deireborough in 1847 and started cultivating. Heiner Ford attended school till the age of 15 and he also continued to work on the farm, but from the beginning he has been a curiosity and attraction towards all kinds of instruments. Even after the father's refusal, he used to secretly resort to free repair by bringing the neighbors and other people's watches or other equipment at night.
At the age of 16, he left home and went to Detroit. By working in several factories here, he acquired knowledge of mechanical learning. In 1886, the house came back, settled on the 80 acre land given by the father and opened a factory to repair the machine there. In 1887, he got married and in the same year he made a plan to make a gas engine and a heavy work machine, but due to special attraction towards the machines he could not stay at home and then Detroit moved.
In 1890, he started working in the Detroit Edison Electric Company, and in 1893 made the first gasoline car, which produced up to four hp and whose speed was 25 miles per hour. In 1893, he started building a second car, and in 1899 he left the job of an electric company and founded the Detroit Automobile Company. Then, leaving this company, they started making rush-taking vehicles. These trains succeeded in many races, which made them big names. Due to this fame, it succeeded in establishing Ford Motor Company in 1903 .
In the first year Ford Motor Company made two cylinders and eight trucks 1,880 horsepower. The company got 100% profit from their sale In the second year, 5,000 vehicles sold. Ford became the president of this company and eventually removed the other stakeholders and became the sole owner of the company, including his only son, Edsel Bryant Ford. Their aim was to create light, fast, steady, but affordable motor vehicles. To achieve success in this, he adopted the principles of standardization, progressive combination, extensive sales and high wages for machine parts. He also built a tractor for agriculture. By 1924 their company had made 20 lakhs carts, trucks and tractors, but till 1931, the number of trains built in all their factories reached two million.
The idea of Ford and philosophy [ edit ]
Ford had a strange combination of idealism and fanaticism. They were biased of reproduction , but they also thought that the industry should be decentralized in such a way that the work of factories along with agriculture also went on. They were in favor of giving higher wages, but the laborers were against the unions; Even in the factories of their factories, they used to work with the discriminatory and armed police with the intention of not allowing the unions to flourish. Peace were staunch adherent, but like the Nazis that Jews were anti. They did not even get to the banks and the Mahajan. First world warAt the time, he gathered some influential people and traveled to Europe on a peace ship called "Oscar II" with the belief that this campaign would be able to stop the war. Despite all this, they had gained great popularity due to their bias towards pastoral life and their unwavering devotion to America's past rites and memorabilia.
Their calculations were in the all-powerful moneylenders of the world. He established an industrial museum and Addison Institute of Technology in Dearborn. Prior to his death, he gave most of his property to a philanthropist established in his name. This institution is the richest among philanthropic institutions of the world. He died in 1947. Two years before his death, he had made his grandson, Henry Ford II, the president of the company.
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