Humn 1210 Catanese

July 16th, 2003

Henry Ford turned out to be the spark plug of the automobile industry. He was one of the most important and influential inventors and businessmen in the short history of America. He revolutionized the business world and he changed forever the efficiency of factories around the world. One of the reasons that Henry Ford can be considered such an important man is that his ideas and concepts are still used today. He was the man who started to use the assembly line, and he also produced all of his own materials so they were cheaper, which in turn allowed Henry to sell his cars more affordably to the consumers. In the minds of most individuals, Henry Ford will forever be remembered as not only the creator of one of the greatest car companies of it’s time, but the inventor of one of the best cars ever made, the Model T. The effect that Henry Ford left on American factories

While still working at his company, Henry was also nominated for the U.S. Senate for the state of Michigan in 1918, but he was defeated.

Henry Ford was active in many other fields besides those of automobile and airplane manufacturing. In 1915, he had world peace on his mind. He chartered a peace ship, which carried him and a number of like-minded individuals to Europe, where they attempted, without success, to persuade the “close-minded” to end WWI (Lacey, 33). In 1919 Ford also helped contribute to the health of mankind by laying out 7.5 million of his own money to erect the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit (Encarta).

As Ford was getting older, he retired from the active direction of his gigantic enterprise in 1945. Henry Ford spent the rest of his life devoted to his cars and he was truly a blessed man as he was able to do something that came naturally, and it was something that he loved. Henry Ford died on April 7, 1947 in Dearborn, Michigan. He lived a very fulfilling and productive 84 years. Upon his death, newspaper editorials looked at him as a hero, a patriot, economist, reformer, and plenty more things. He left behind a personal fortune estimated between $500 and $700 million (Lacey, 20-21).

got married to Clara Bryant in 1888. He supported himself and his wife by running a sawmill (Collier, 145 – 152).

In 1879, at a young age of 16, he left his home to travel to the near by city of Detroit to work as an apprentice for a machinist. He occasionally returned home to work on the farm. He remained an apprentice for three years and then returned to Dearborn. During the next few years, Henry divided his time between operating and repairing steam engines, finding occasional work in Detroit factories, and working on his fathers broken down farm equipment, as well as lending an unwilling hand with other farm work. Henry

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