Henry Ford

     As a young child, Henry Ford was given a pocket watch from his father as a present. Right when he got it, he took it apart and then he reassembled it. After hearing of this interesting ability, friends and neighbors called upon him to fix their timepieces.This officially sparked his lifetime love for machines.  He hated his measly farm life, and when he turned sixteen, he went to be an apprentice machinist with a man in Michigan where he learned to more skillfully operate steam machines and he also studied book keeping. Once he was grown and married, he switched back to the farm life in order to better support his family, until he got his first real job with the Edison Illuminating Company.
    He later gained the title of "Chief Engineer" at the company by sharing his ideas of a "horseless carriage" with Thomas Edison himself, who funded the research needed for Fords brilliant ideas. Once he broke away from Edison to further pursue his ideas he created the Ford Automobile Company where breakthroughs were made like the assembly line and the official automobile.
    His ideas as a manager of the company were to have a perfect working environment. He had a social department that checked into the lives of his employees to make sure they were making respectable choices and if they stayed at the company more six months, he even set up a profit sharing system for them. Because of his efficiency Ideas, his workers were the highest paid and time wise, the least working people around in the society.
     He also was a ardent pacifist who opposed WWI and he even went as far to fund a peace ship to Europe. However, his actions were also kind of contradictory because he was openly antisemitic, and he supported publicly The Dearborn Independent, an antisemitic weekly newspaper. He was a philanthropist though, and he created the Ford Foundation that funded ongoing grants for research, education, and development.
    I think that Henry Ford may have had his faults, (like his Nazi support...) he was an overall good person who forever changed our society. He made working conditions better, he worked hard to get to where he was, and he invested his noteworthy ideas that were powered by his love of steam machines and his dream in America.
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