Henry Ford was the car industry, until he named the Edsel after his grandson.
In the same time of the commerce giants of Rockefeller, Morgan and Carnegie, Henry Ford was an innovator.
Henry Ford was fond of saying that the customer could have a Model T in any color as long as it was black.
Whatever else he might have been, Henry Ford was devoted to the lowly soybean, and made at least two cars out of the material.
And since the only nonstop route from Beijing to the U.S. on an American carrier was a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit, Henry Ford was chosen to receive the celebrated patient.
Her research team at Henry Ford Hospital was the first to show that having a pet in the house during your child's first year of life may protect him or her from developing allergies -- a finding that's since been duplicated in other studies.
Ann was born at Henry Ford Hospital, I was born at Harper Hospital.
Or the rumors promised reward: every paratrooper (or combat infantry, or artilleryman, or medic, or whatever) was going to get a free car from Henry Ford when the war was won.
But Ford's chief, Henry Ford II, was incensed at the initial failure of the car that bore his father's name, and the Edsel division was destroyed.
The Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 by Henry Ford, who transformed personal transportation with his Model T, an automobile that was reliable, efficient and reasonably priced.
When it was opened by Henry Ford's son in 1931, the plant was the country's largest single factory and heralded the arrival in Britain of mass-manufacturing.
But it was Henry Ford's tax-avoidance strategy two decades earlier that first established the dual-class structure.
His favourite businessman was Henry Ford, who paid his workers above the odds.
Because this is real life, and the Henry Ford Museum, its role was to crush a junked white Hyundai.
Kevin Yee, administrator of cardiology at Henry Ford, says managing images was becoming a logistical nightmare when the hospital decided to test the cloud system in 2011.
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The robot, first approved in 2000 for gallbladder and heartburn surgery, started catching on for prostate surgery in 2002 after urologist Mani Menon at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital reported that it was a far easier way to learn the new technique.
More than 6, 000 names were considered for the car before it was named after Henry Ford's son, Edsel.
The greatest fortune ever made in the auto business was made by Henry Ford with his low-priced Model T car.
Henry Ford, as it happened, was then attempting the same thing.
One is that, to a degree that was not true in Henry Ford's day, the money is in the brands, not in the machinery.
But doing away with the need for horses did much more than mean it was good to be Henry Ford and no longer so good to be a horse breeder.
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Henry Ford, back in the 1930s, was one of the first to posit the use of soybeans as a source for plastics for his automobiles and fabric for his clothes.
Eun saw content in terms of metrics and promoted what he called "The AOL Way, " a system for increasing productivity and page views that was less Ben Bradlee than Henry Ford.
When he began his professional career, anti-Semitism, rife in American life, was especially virulent in Detroit, where Henry Ford published the Dearborn Independent.
Entrepreneurs can't be entrepreneurs without capital, and it was the savings of others that enabled Henry Ford to replace the carriage with the automobile, allowed banks to replace the traditional teller with the ATM and continues to turn formerly blighted city sections into shining examples of urban renewal.
That is why Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were American heroes a century ago, and Steve Jobs was one when he died last year.
Two executives behind the Mustang, Lee Iacocca and Hal Sperlich, later were fired by Ford CEO Henry Ford II and wound up at Chrysler, which in 1980 was saved by America's first automotive bailout.
The highest paid person listed was Gail L. Warden, head of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, and set the mold for many other corporate leaders in many other industries.
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