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Henry Ford was born on 30.07.1863, the near Dearborn, Michigan. Since 1879 was a student engineer in Detroit, worked in the electrical company. All his spare time he spent on the production car. Every evening, Ford was busy in his shed. When testing a fault in the car was a lot. That went down the engine or wooden flywheel, then tore the belt transmission. Finally in 1893, Ford built a car with a low-power four-stroke internal combustion engine looks more like a four wheel bike. The car weighed only 27 kg. Since 1893, Henry worked as chief engineer "ilyumineyting Edison Company, and in 1899 - 1902gg. - In the Detroit car company. In 1903, founded Ford Motor, which later became one of the world's largest automobile companies. Its factories Ford widely adopted standardization and introduced a conveyor assembly. His presentation on the organization of work outlined in the works of "My Life and Work" (1922, Russian translation 1924), "Today and Tomorrow" (1926god), "Moving Forward" (1930). Construction vehicles in the United States gave their time not only to Ford. In 1909, there were already 265 automotive companies, issuing 126,593 car. It's more than them at that time produced in all European countries. In 1903, Ford created a racing car. Racer Oldfild won it three-mile race. In the same year, Ford organized a joint stock company for production of automobiles. It was released in 1700 car model "A". The car had power of the motor 8 liters. with. and could reach a maximum speed of 50 km / h. Enough? In our times, a very small velocity. But already in 1906, was released model "K" (the speed in a race 160 km / h). Initially, Ford Motor "to update the model cars often. But in 1908 appeared a model "T". This is the first car assembled on a conveyor belt on the principle of the conveyor for processing of carcasses at slaughterhouses "Swift & Company in Chicago. Model "T" was released, for the sake of economy, only black and remained until 1927 only manufactured by Ford. In 1924, half of all cars in the world was brand Ford - T ". She almost no change was produced in 20 years. It was released about 15 million "Tin Lizzie" - the so-called Americans a new car. He looked like a small black box on wheels. Needless to say, unpretentious building was open to all winds. But the engine, the engine worked on conscience. And it ensured the success of the car. This relatively low cost: in fact became a mass production. From $ 850 to $ 290. Ford's cars began to appear in Europe. In France, which at that time was the leading automotive power, they were in 1907. But its production in this country, Ford has not created, but built big factories Dagenheme (England) and in Cologne (Germany). Production has increased steadily. At the end of 1912 at a factory in Dagenheme - a suburb of London - was released only 3000 cars. And after about 50 years - 670000.