HENRY FORD
A famous American funder who is the father of assembly lines in mass production and is the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He first used the assembly lines in mass production of the automobile model-T. He was such a productive man that he got 161 U.S. patents. He became one of the richest men in the world. Also “Fordism” took its name after Henry Ford, which means the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line. Ford was not the first to use assembly line but he made assembly line major component of the American industrial system. The Model T, his most famous car, was pioneered in 1908 for under $900. His advertising for the car was accurate --"No car under $2,000 offers more, and no car over $2,000 offers more except the trimmings." Model-T can be seen as the first car that is affordable to all middle class people in the society which is produced by mass production. According to many industrial historians, Henry Ford’s innovation of the Model T, the moving belt assembly line, and the five-dollar, eight hour day has had more important consequences than Lenin’s socialist revolution (Flink, 1981).
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Ford.html
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Ford,Henry(1988)-Today and Tomorrow
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