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Henry Ford

1863 - 1947

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles. Ford was born in a farmhouse in Springwells Township, Michigan, and left home at the age of 16 to find work in Detroit. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Ford is the 10th most popular inventor (down from 9th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from United States (down from 58th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Inventor.

Henry Ford is most famous for the invention of the assembly line.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henry Ford ranks 10 out of 426. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Karl Benz, Elon Musk, Alexander Graham Bell, and Guglielmo Marconi. After him are Louis Braille, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Nikolaus Otto, Louis Daguerre, and Nicolas Appert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Henry Ford ranks 5. Before him are Edvard Munch, Swami Vivekananda, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and Pierre de Coubertin. After him are Arthur Henderson, Konstantin Stanislavski, Paul Signac, Pietro Mascagni, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Constantine P. Cavafy, and David Lloyd George. Among people deceased in 1947, Henry Ford ranks 3. Before him are Max Planck, and Aleister Crowley. After him are Al Capone, Christian X of Denmark, Rudolf Höss, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Philipp Lenard, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, George II of Greece, Kurt Lewin, and Jozef Tiso.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Ford ranks 73 out of 20,380. Before him are Bob Dylan (1941), Richard Nixon (1913), Bill Gates (1955), David Lynch (1946), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), and George H. W. Bush (1924). After him are Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), Danny DeVito (1944), James Stewart (1908), Barbara Bush (1925), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), and Warren Buffett (1930).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Henry Ford ranks 2. Before him are Thomas Edison (1847). After him are Samuel Morse (1791), Eli Whitney (1765), Lee de Forest (1873), Jimmy Wales (1966), Samuel Colt (1814), Bob Kahn (1938), Herman Hollerith (1860), Robert Fulton (1765), Steve Wozniak (1950), and George Westinghouse (1846).

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