Henry Ford | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/10/2019

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00:01:50 1 Early life
00:05:45 2 Marriage and family
00:06:12 3 Career
00:08:53 3.1 Ford Motor Company
00:10:07 3.1.1 Model T
00:16:36 3.1.2 Model A and Ford's later career
00:19:29 3.1.3 Labor philosophy
00:19:38 3.1.3.1 The five-dollar wage
00:22:48 3.1.3.2 The five-day workweek
00:24:09 3.1.3.3 Labor unions
00:28:48 3.2 Ford Airplane Company
00:30:18 3.2.1 Willow Run
00:30:26 3.3 Peace and war
00:30:35 3.3.1 World War I era
00:32:58 3.3.2 The coming of World War II and Ford's mental collapse
00:37:45 4 iThe Dearborn Independent/i and antisemitism
00:48:13 5 International business
00:52:54 6 Racing
00:55:16 7 Later career and death
00:57:13 8 Personal interests
00:58:30 8.1 Interest in materials science and engineering
01:00:26 8.2 Florida and Georgia residences and community
01:02:08 8.3 Preserving Americana
01:03:12 9 In popular culture
01:05:13 10 Honors and recognition
01:06:16 11 See also



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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle-class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the 20th century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As the owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation and arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
Ford was also widely known for his pacifism during the first years of World War I, and for promoting antisemitic content, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, through his newspaper The Dearborn Independent and the book The International Jew, having an influence on the development of Nazism and Adolf Hitler.