HENRY FORD

Prepared by :
Abdul Haris
Farah Syaika Disa bt Mohd Rafik
Noor Izati bt Zulkifli

NAME

HENRY FORD

BORN ON

30 July 1863

PLACE of BIRTH

Greenfield Township, Michigan,

U.S

RELIGION

Episcopalian

PARENTS

William Ford
Mary Litogot Ford

FAMILY

Clara Ala Bryant (m. 18881947)

Edsel Ford (Son)

EDUCATION
Detroit Business Institute
FOUNDER/CO-FOUNDER

Ford Motor Company

AWARDS

1928 - Franklin Institute's Elliott

Cresson Medal
1938 - Nazi Germany's Grand
Cross of the German Eagle

Career

 First major job

Detroit Edison Illumination Company (1891)
Development of Fords first automobile (Ford
Quadricycle)
Ford resigned from the Edison Company and
founded the Detroit Automobile Company on
August 5, 1899

Detroit Automobile
Company
Ford develop 26-HP automobile
and Detroit Automobile
Company became Henry Ford Company.
He quits after two years and Murphy renamed the
company the Cadillac Automobile Company.
Now Ford develop 80+HP racer called as 999 and form
partnership Ford & Malcomson,Ltd.

Ford Motor Company

In June of 1903, Ford Motor

Company is incorporated. Henry
is 39 years old.
A ten-man team built the first car
which sold for $750 with an
optional back seat costing $100
more. One thousand were built
that year.

 In 1908, Ford begins building the Model T (Tin

Lizzie)
During the 1908-1909 season, Ford sold 10,607
Model Ts, a 5-passenger car for $850.
By 1913, all Model Ts are built on moving
assembly lines.

 After the
decline of
model T due
rising
competition,
Henry Ford
was
convinced to
make a new
model
He involved
great
technical
expertise.
Body was left
to his son,
Edsel.
The result was
the successful
Ford model A

Assembly Line

Ford combined precision and speed when manufacturing

cars by creating the Assembly line in 1913.
It was a continuously moving line.

Labor Philosophy

The five dollar workday

Pioneer of Welfare Capitalism.
To improve workers and labor
turnover.
He announced that he would pay his
worker $5 for an 8 hour day.

In 1947 Henry Ford died at age

83. His legacy, however, lives on.

Personal Interest
Interest in
materials
science and
engineering
Florida and
Georgia
residences and
community
Preserving
Americana

described his company's adoption of vanadium steel alloys and

subsequent metallurgic R&D work
Soybean-based plastics were used in Ford automobiles
throughout the 1930s in plastic parts such as car horns, in paint,
etc.

Ford had a vacation residence in Fort Myers, Florida next to

Thomas Edison
Mr. Ford converted the 1870sera rice mill into his personal
research laboratory and powerhouse and constructed an
underground tunnel from there to the new home, providing it with
steam.

purchased the historic Wayside Inn

he began collecting materials for his museum, which had a
theme of practical technology

Contribution
Affordabl
e Cars

The
People's
Car

Somethin
g for
Workers

Better
Lives