Biography of the inventor Ford

For 20 years, according to Ford Motor Company, 15 million thousand pieces sold them. Today, Ford T in mass in eighth place, but no car has changed the world like it. Its creator, the son of a farmer and a self-taught mechanic, became the embodiment of the American dream and a symbol of capitalism. Until now, Rockefeller and Ford are the first to come to the mind of entrepreneurship giants, although they became famous moreover.

Nowadays, corporations are managed by hired managers. Billionaire-co-constituents have survived mainly in the field of information technology. Most modern rich are portfolio investors for whom promotions are financial instruments. With all due respect, it is difficult to say what will leave behind on earth, for example, Warren Buffett. The former Titans were industrial marshals.

They commanded tens of thousands of people and influenced the lives of millions, erected cities and changed government, and most importantly - they created something that was not before them. No matter how relate to these extinct mammoths and generally a capitalist system, the scale of their personalities caused respect. And Henry Ford was also an outstanding social innovator, partly forming the world in which we now live.

The consumption society with all the vague of criteria, the main attribute of the middle class is the possession of the machine. Ford built his first car, or rather, a four -wheeled bicycle with a gasoline motor, and won the USA surroundings in a year in a year of its own design. There were hundreds of such enthusiasts in America and Europe, but only Ford set out to create a mass model.

Before him, the car was the subject of luxury and a prestigious toy. His predecessor Theodore Roosevelt fundamentally refused this, since he positioned himself as a leader of ordinary people. There were few cars, and there were a lot of manufacturers. Each company sought to surprise the audience as often as possible with new technical and designer "chips" and bully the price.

Ford first applied a different approach to business: selling cheaper and more. But its price did not grew, but decreased: in the year of dollars, in m dollars, in m dollars! The average salary in the United States in the year was $ 48 per month. Most cars of other companies were in the price range of dollars. In the book “My Life. My Achievements”, Ford wrote that he delegated any functions to employees, and every day he was engaged in what he was looking for, where and at least at least to reduce the cost without prejudice to quality.

His phrase is known: "Any color of the car is good if this color is black." The reason was not in aesthetics, but in the fact that uniform painting reduced production. The author of the photo, Getty images signature for the photo, Henry Ford, his son Edsel driving and the millionth Ford T Ford especially wanted his every employee to drive a car he himself, to consider this the best advertisement and provides his people with discounts and installments.

Seeing Ford's success, competitors rushed to imitate. By the year, the number of cars in the United States reached 25 million. Then, in the houses of ordinary inhabitants in America, and then in all prosperous countries, refrigerators, televisions, computers, cheap and comfortable plastic products, and much more came. And the era of consumerism with Ford T began. The conveyor was the first conveyor line at the Ford factory earned in April of the year.

Labor productivity has increased four times. The innovation spread around the world at the speed of a forest fire. The fact that specialization and division of labor increase efficiency has proved the classics of political economy. The Ford conveyor became the extreme embodiment of this idea. Having come up with the breakdown of the process into separate operations and the moving tape, Ford did not stop.

He was the first to put production management and personnel on the scientific basis, wherever possible, replacing the incidence of thoughtful algorithms. For example, at each Ford factory there was a brigade, receiving money for not doing anything. These were the repairs of the conveyor. An hourly payment was given to them while they were sitting in the rest room. As soon as the red lamp of the breakdown was lit, the counter, which charged them with the salary, stopped.

It is clear that the workers were vitally interested in the fact that the malfunctions were eliminated faster, and best of all did not happen at all. And Ford had many such inventures. Everything that is called the scientific organization of labor today was founded by two contemporaries: the practitioner Henry Ford and theorist Charles Taylor. Their ideas were equally called "Taylorism" and "Fordism." Lenin called Taylorism a scientific system for squeezing sweat - however, before the revolution.

Many thinkers and writers of the X, X, in particular, Herbert Wells, noticed that the worker on the conveyor as a professional and personality is incomparably lower than the medieval master, and that humanity has to pay degradation for the growth of wealth.The author of the photo, Getty images signature for the photo, Ford’s first car would today be called a quadocyclist that the whole world will soon turn into a factory built on the principles of Ford, with a rigid division into managers and pawns, from which initiative and individuality are not required.

In the anti -utopia of Oldos Haxli "Oh, the marvelous new world" Ford was revered as a prophet, and the chronology was carried out from the day the first car "T" was released. And from people for success in life, creativity is increasingly required, which is also not all happy. Ford folk capitalism first began to be paid not only to the manager, but also to the workers of annual bonuses, depending on the profit of the company.

The Marxists called this a trick for dulling class flairs at the proletarians. But the workers really became, if not by co -owners of the enterprise, then Ford's interested partners. In the year, he introduced a minimum rate of five dollars per day approximately twice as high as the average salary in the country and hourly work week. Other entrepreneurs said that he corrupts workers.

At the same time, Ford did not allow unions to create at his enterprises, which, in his opinion, deprived the working people and independence, instilled confrontation instead of cooperation and related to the economy on the principle of "the worse, the better." What Ford was mistaken by Henry Ford - the only large industrialist in history who did not borrow, did not engage in financial transactions and did not produce securities, but developed production only at the expense of his own profit.

This was his symbol of faith. In the year, having raised enough funds, he bought up the rest of the shareholders of their share and became the sole owner of the Ford Motor Company. At the dawn of his careers, banks several times humiliatingly denied him in loans. As a result, Ford, until the end of his life, considered bankers and exchanges parasites and dreamed of an economic way where they would not be.

These dreams have not come true. No significant business in the world is complete without bank loan and share capital. And the Ford Motor Company after the death of the founder began to behave like everyone else. From dislike to bankers, one step to anti -Semitism, since a significant part of the US financial sector was in Jewish hands. In the year, the local newspaper belonging to Ford in the capital of his automotive empire Dirborne published the “protocols of the Zion sages” and a series of articles that blamed Jews in all troubles, from the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in Russia to a decrease in the level of American baseball.

Seven years later, Ford apologized to the Jews - as the evil tongues claimed, after they began to buy "Chevrolet" instead of his cars. Hitler considered Ford a model of an industrialist, set an example to the German magnates, and in honor of the Fill in July he awarded the Great Cross of the Germanic Orl - the highest order of the Third Reich for foreigners. True, the official basis was not the views of Ford, but the successful work of the German branch of his company.

The fact that Ford received an order from the hands of the Fuhrer is a myth. He did not see Hitler, and the order was handed to him at the headquarters of the concern in Dirborn two German diplomats. The fate of the company Ford shows at the same time at the same time what an outstanding person is capable of, and how unsafe to build everything on one person. In the year, the only son of Ford Edsel, a capable manager and automobile designer, whom his father prepared in successors literally from childhood, suddenly died from a fast -high -quality cancer.

The grandson of Henry Jr. was only 26, his brothers even less. Expensive influence was acquired by the head of the security service of the concern, a former professional boxer and sailor Harry Bennett. Ford's offspring predicted decline, but it feels good on the day of the summer. True, in terms of the number of cars sold, it takes only 6th place in the world and the second in the United States.

The management of the company did not leave the family: her rule is headed by the summer great-grandson of the founder William Ford Jr.. Curious facts about Ford and his cars: Henry Ford stood at the origins of not only the American, but also the Soviet automobile industry. In the years, the USSR acquired the Fordzon tractors, after which he organized their pirate outlet called Red Putilovets in Leningrad.

According to the first half of the year, Volkswagen was almost half the “Ford” by the number of cars sold. The Americans called "Ford T" Tin Lizzie. The Russian translation of "tin Lizzy" sounds derogatory, but the original is not, since Lizzy was the most common in the States by the name of the farmer. In order to remind the workers about safety precautions, Ford ordered to hang posters in front of his factories in front of the gates of his factories: “Remember that God created a man without spare parts!

He graduated only to elementary school and loved to repeat that the mind is the ability to attract and use people more educated than you yourself. Ford created not only the first mass car, but also one of the first passenger aircraft - a three -engine metal monoplane Ford Trimotor, in series produced in years. By analogy with the "tin Lizzy" he was called "tin goose."Ford in the year went to Europe and tried to explain to the peoples and governments an elementary thought for him that doing business is more profitable than fighting.

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