Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and is credited with contributing to the creation of a middle class in American society. He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, but also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many social theorists identify this phase of economic and social history as "Fordism."

External links

• The Henry Ford Heritage Association
• The Nation, January 24, 2000.
• Review of Henry Ford and the Jews
• Article about the 1916 Peace Ship expedition
• Full text of My Life and Work from Project Gutenberg
• American Corporate Support for Nazis
• Notable quotations and speech excerpts

Patents

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• US610040 -- Carburetor
• US686046 -- Motor carriage