亨利·福特虽然不是发明汽车的鼻祖,却是不折不扣的现代汽车工业的创始人。当1903年他建立福特汽车公司的时候,汽车还是一种复杂、昂贵和不可靠的新玩意。经过福特的巧妙之手,汽车变成了简单、廉价和性能可靠的普通产品,福特公司则成了20世纪早期世界上最大的工业组织,福特本人也因此积累了巨额财富。福特生于1863年,作为家中8个孩子当中的一个,他并没有受到父母特别的宠爱。福特上学时也不是老师眼中的优秀学生,学习成绩并非十分理想。因此,16岁那年,他决定辍学,在底特律附近的一家机械商店里找了一份工作。此后,福特又找了好几次工作,并积累了有关机械方面的丰富知识。1869年,33岁的福特在底特律的迈迪逊电厂担任首席工程师。同年,他制造了一 Although Henry Ford is not the originator of the invention of the car, it is the founder of the modern automobile industry. When he founded Ford Motor Company in 1903, the car was still a complicated, expensive and unreliable novelty. After Ford's ingenious hands, the car became a simple, cheap and reliable general product, and Ford became the largest industrial organization in the world in the early 20th century. As a result, Ford himself accumulated a huge amount of wealth. Born in 1863, Ford was not particularly favored by his parents as one of eight children in his family. Ford was not a good student in the eyes of a teacher at school, and his academic performance was not very satisfactory. So at the age of 16, he decided to drop out of school and find a job in a mechanical store near Detroit. Since then, Ford has found several jobs, and accumulated a wealth of knowledge about machinery. In 1869, Ford, 33, served as chief engineer at Madison Power Station in Detroit. In the same year, he made one