Facts about Henry Ford

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   Born in 1863 on a farm in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford showed an early mechanical aptitude that led him away from agriculture.

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   A devoted pacifist before World War I, Henry Ford ran an unsuccessful peace mission to Europe in 1915 aboard a chartered ocean liner.

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   Ford's Model T, first produced in 1908, was offered only in black for much of its production run to speed up manufacturing.

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   In 1914, Henry Ford introduced the five-dollar workday, roughly doubling the standard wage to attract and retain reliable factory workers.

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   The moving assembly line introduced by Henry Ford in 1913 dramatically cut the time to build a Model T from over 12 hours to about 93 minutes.

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