Henry T. Ford (1863-1947)Henry Ford once said: “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether it happens at twenty or eighty. He who continues to learn stays young. The best thing in life is to keep your mind young. » - Henry Ford Henry T. Ford, a pioneering automobile engineer, is best known for inventing the automobile. The fact is that he didn't do it, he used what had been developed and studied in the automobile industry to develop his own ideas and revolutionized the automobile industry. His creativity allowed him to develop the assembly line that sparked automobile production.Henry FordHenry Ford was born near Dearborn, Michigan on July 30, 1863. His family had nothing to do with automobiles, they were simple farmers. Henry lived on the farm run by his father who was Irish and his mother who was Dutch. His mother died when he was 12 years old. After his mother's death, he helped on the family farm in the summer and in the winter he attended a one-room schoolhouse. From a very young age, he fascinated my moving mechanical objects. From a young age, he was fascinated by watches and clocks. He traveled the countryside doing repairs without pay, all that mattered to him was playing with the clockworks. From his personal experience on the farm, he was fascinated by my agricultural machines which reduced the arduousness of agricultural tasks. We can notice that he had a lot of child in him, and to get around or make his tasks easier, he invented his own agricultural machines. His fascination with machines grew with age. At the age of thirteen, he first saw a coal-fired steam engine traveling down a long rural road. From that point on, he became more fascinated with machines that moved on the roads without any manpower. At the age of sixteen, and against his father's wishes, he left the family farm for Detroit, where he found work as an apprentice mechanic. He was faced with low-paying jobs. Working for $2.50 in a mechanic's workshop, he then moved to a watchmaker where he worked four hours and was paid $2 a week. Gradually, he worked alone at Edison Illuminating Company and became chief engineer there. In 1884, he took charge of a farm that his father had given him. At twenty-four he married Clara Bryant and settled on her farm. But Ford didn't stay on the farm long after two years he returned to Detroit and worked as a n...... middle of paper ...... a 1941 Ford company became the only big automobile manufacturer in the country. Detroit region which had not recognized any union. In hearings before the National Labor Board, Ford was found guilty of repeated violations of the National Labor Relations Act. Ford was forced to negotiate a labor contract with a union after a successful strike took place at the main plant in River Rouge, Michigan, in April 1941. During World War II, Ford won government contracts for which it manufactured war equipment such as: parts for bombers and later, the entire plane. By the end of World War II (1945), one of its factories manufactured more than 8,000 aircraft. Henry Ford died on April 7, 1947 in Dearborn. Ford left a personal fortune of $500 million to $700 million, donating much of the money to the Ford Foundation, a nonprofit organization. The Ford Motor Company was taken over by Henry Ford's grandson, Henry Ford II, who owned it until his death in 1987. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether it happens at twenty or eighty years. Anyone who continues