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Henry Ford had a hobby, ornithology, or to put it in more simple, Fordian language, bird watching.   His interest in birds was life long.

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Henry Ford’s ingenuity and acumen left a legacy that reaches far beyond the Model T’s driver’s seat. In pioneering a car affordable to nearly everyone, Ford increased the minimum daily wage of his time, essentially creating a middle class, and changed forever the way the automotive industry produced and distributed cars. His stunning success didn’t occur because of a masterful business sense; he was more of an entrepreneur—an idea man. But his unconventional ways took his company to the top.

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To Ford’s mind, writes Greenleaf, charitable giving should be “a private and individual act,” one that was “spontaneous on the part of the giver, unanticipated and unsought by the beneficiary, and a gratuitous gesture without any element of calculation.” By contrast, Ford despised virtually all institutional charity. To his mind, it “degrades recipients and drugs their self-respect,” while creating a “feeling of resentment which nearly always overtakes the objects of charity.” He preferred to give money to individual people, face to face and with a firm handshake; barring that, he was willing to fund a cause of his own creation.

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■ Born on 30th July, 1863 in Michigan
■ Left Home in 1879 to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit
■ Returned to farm in 1882, became adept at operating portable steam engine
■ Became an engineer with Edison illuminating company in 1891 and then chief engineer in 1893
■ Invented the "quadricycle" in 1896 which had a 2 cylinder engine with 4 horsepower
■ Met Edison in 1898 who encouraged him to go forward; found Ford Motor Co. in 1903

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Born on July 30, 1863, near Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous company head

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Instead of increasing car prices as Ford’s market share increased, Ford lowered prices. Instead of cutting wages as they became a major employer, Ford raised workers’ wages more than they had asked for.  Instead of resting on the laurels of the Model A or Model T, Ford and his progeny developed more necessary and even alluring cars for the masses like the Falcon, Taurus, Lincoln and later the venerable Thunderbird and Mustang, all still fairly priced. Ford built museums for the public, created the Ford Foundation, aided the war effort and generally acted like a good corporate citizen, and was perceived as such.