Henry Ford

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Henry Ford

1863–1947

Best known for putting the Model T on the road and transforming factory work with moving assembly-line production, he became one of the central figures in modern industrial history. His ideas helped make the automobile a mass-market product, while his life and legacy remain deeply debated.

5 Audiobooks

The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920

The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920

by William John Cameron, Henry Ford

My Life and Work

My Life and Work

by Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther

Elämäni ja työni

Elämäni ja työni

by Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther

Aspects of Jewish power in the United States : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent

Aspects of Jewish power in the United States : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent

by William John Cameron, Henry Ford

Jewish influences in American life : volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent

Jewish influences in American life : volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent

by William John Cameron, Henry Ford

About the author

Born in Michigan in 1863, Henry Ford grew up on a farm but was drawn early to machinery and mechanical work. After working as an engineer, he founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 and became famous for the Model T, the car that helped bring automobile ownership within reach of many middle-class Americans.

Ford is widely associated with the development of large-scale, efficient automobile manufacturing, especially the moving assembly line introduced at his factories in the 1910s. He also drew attention for the five-dollar workday, a wage policy that became one of the most talked-about labor decisions of its time.

His story is not only one of business success. Ford's public life also included harmful antisemitic publishing and other views that have shaped how historians judge him today. He died in 1947, but his influence on industry, work, transportation, and American culture is still hard to ignore.