Henry Ford Unknown Facts

Henry Ford is the founder of the Ford Motor Company and was an entrepreneur who turned his idea into a successful business.  He also single handedly developed an automobile which every middle class American person could afford. Let’s look at some unknown facts about Ford. 

Unknown facts about Henry Ford

1) As a young man, Henry Ford repaired watches for his friends and family with tools he made himself. 

2) Ford worked for another famous inventor, Thomas Alva Edison.  He worked at Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant in Detroit as the Chief Engineer.

3) Henry Ford bought the Redstone School House in Sterling, Massachusetts, which he claimed was mentioned in the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb.  Ford went on to publish a book, The Story of Mary and Her Little Lamb and Ford Ideals, to prove his point.

4) Henry Ford was a close friend of Thomas Alva Edison and kept Edison’s last breath in a test tube sealed with cork, as a memorial to Edison’s “life and breath.”

5) Henry Ford hated farming, but at the age of 25, had to turn to work on his family farm after getting married, to feed his family.

6) He published a book about the effects of smoking on human body, called The Case Against the Little White Slaver, in 1914.  As smoking was not considered unhealthy at the time, the book was considered unusual by the public.

7) Ford found himself an unusual admirer when he became the only American mentioned in Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf.  Hitler called Ford an inspiration, while speaking to Detroit News.

8) Henry Ford once ran for the United States Senate with the encouragement of the then President, Woodrow Wilson.  However, Ford refused to spend any money on campaigns and lost by 4,500 votes.

Henry Ford was a true entrepreneur, whose ideas revolutionized the world of automobiles and in the process, made him an inspiration to many.

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