Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate who founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903. He is best known for pioneering the assembly line technique of mass production, which made automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans, and for introducing the iconic Model T in 1908. Ford was also credited with implementing the five-dollar daily wage and the five-day workweek, labor practices that significantly influenced the growth of the American middle class. He was born on July 30, 1863, in Michigan and died on April 7, 1947, in Dearborn, Michigan.
“He bought a whole rubber tree plantation in the Amazon jungle... he wanted to own like the complete vertical thing.”
Source→“What if they would have shown up at Henry Ford and said, we need airbags? And Henry Ford is like, OK, we can't figure out how to make engines work. Let's get that done. And also these cars go 15 miles an hour.”
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