Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 to April 7, 1947. who was an automobile manufacturer from America who created one of the earliest cars, the Ford, Model T in 1908, and later went on to build on an assembly line road of production. Ford's Model T was incredible, it sold so many Ford became a world-wide known company leader. Through the years it lost a lot of its market dominance but even though it didn't stay the most popular it had a lasting impact on other technological development around America. Even though Ford's market has gone down quite a bit he was one of the earliest and greatest car developers in the world for his time.
When Ford introduced the Model T in October of 1908, everyone was interested in it because more people were able to afford it instead of just the higher ranking people in society. The car was known for its durability and adaptability very quickly it became a huge success in the commercial
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When a tribune editor called him an "ignorant idealist" because he didn't agree with the U.S. going into World War I, he sued him and even though he won he didn't get anything good out of it. In Fords later life he went on to go and help people around Virginia area, he went and built schools for the people there and made a museum called the Henry Ford Museum. His era of youth was gone and he didn't have many things he could do left. Ford was a anti-Semitic, he hated the Jews for some reason. He blamed a Jew on instigating World War I, and did many things against the Jews. Ford died in his home on April 7, 1947, he died exactly 100 years after his father had came to America. All of his holdings went to the Ford Foundation, which was set up to help his family when they need it, and it was known as the richest private foundation in the