1863-1947. US automobile manufacturer, who
built his first car 1893 and founded the Ford
Motor Company 1903. His Model T (1908-27) was
the first car to be constructed solely by
mass-production methods, and 15 million of
these cars were made. He was a pacifist, and
visited Europe 1915-16 in an attempt to end
World War I. In 1936 he founded, with his son
Edsel Ford (1893-1943), the philanthropic
Ford Foundation.