Henry Ford.

Ford was born july 30, 1863, on a farm next to a rural town west of Detroit, Michigan (this area is now part of Dearborn, Michigan). His father, William Ford(1826–1905), was born in Country Cork, Ireland.

Ford's First vehicle : 1896 Ford Quadricycle W.Henry Ford seated
In 1896, Ford attended a meeting of Edison executives, where he was introduced to Thomas Edison. Edison approved of Ford's automobile experimentation; encouraged by Edison's approval, Ford designed and built a second vehicle, which was completed in 1898.

Ford (standing) launched Barney Oldfield's career in 1902.

With the help of C.Harold Wills, Ford designed, built, and successfully raced a twenty six horsepower automobile in October 1901. With this success, Murphy and other stockholders in the Detroit Automobile Company formed the Henry Ford Company on November 30, 1901, with Ford as chief engineer. However, Murphy brought in Henry. M. Leland as a consultant. As a result, Ford left the company bearing his name in 1902. With Ford gone, Murphy renamed the company the Cadillac Automobile Company.Ford also produced the 80+ horsepower racer "999", and getting Barney Oldfield to drive it to victory in October 1902.

Henry Ford shocked the automotive world 60 years ago by doing the impossible : Mass-producing the V-8 engine. Here he is shown with his first "production" engine which is now displayed in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn MI. A brass tag on the first engine reads: "This is V-8 No. 1 motor. Hold for Mr. H. Ford."

This unusual camera shot shows Henry Ford (right) and Edsel Ford with their newest product, the Ford V-8 for 1937. The picture was taken at Dearborn during the newspapermen’s preview of the new car, which excited unusual interest because of its completely new appearance and the advent of the 60 horsepower V-8 engine, giving a choice of engine sizes.

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
- Henry Ford.
When Ford started the 40-hour work week and a minimum wage he was criticized by other industrialists and by Wall Street. He proved, however, that paying people more would enable Ford workers to afford the cars they were producing and be good for the economy.

Automobiles displayed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Replica of shop where Henry Ford built his first automobile, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich.


Ford Assembly Line, 1913

Henry Ford recieved the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, presented by Karl Kapp, German consul-general of Cleveland (left), and Fritz Hailer, German consul of Detroit (right).

Orv & Henry Ford at Hawthorne Hill

Henry Ford with Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone. Ft. Myers, Florida, February 11, 1929.

Edsel Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Henry Ford pose in the Ford hangar during Lindbergh's August 1927 visit.

Ford's most successful aircraft was the Ford 4AT Trimotor — called the “Tin Goose” because of its corrugated metal construction. It used a new alloy called Alclad that combined the corrosion resistance of aluminum with the strength of Duralumin.

Ford's Ford...
A 1942 model, Mr. Ford had this car updated with many interchangeable 1946 ford parts, including 1946 front end sheet metal.


Ford's Ford's Dash.
This was the last of Henry Ford's personal cars and he used it up to his very last day, April 7, 1947. The leather upholstery and two-way radio indicate how much Henry Ford depended on this car to get about his empire and to maintain communications.

78-year old Henry Ford at the Wheat Harvest in Tecumseh, 1941.

Henry Ford with his wife and grandson (Henry Ford II). Henry Ford sits at the tiller of the first car he made, in 1896 when he was 33.

In ill health, he ceded the presidency to his grandson Henry Ford II in September 1945 and went into retirement. He died in 1947 of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 83 in Fair Lane, his Dearborn estate, and he is buried in the Ford Cemetery in Detroit.
He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line, coupled with high wages for his workers.

Father of Communism.

Portray of teenage karl Marx's.
Karl Heinrich Marx born on 5th of may 1818 in Trier of Prussia. he was a Philosopher, Political Economist, Sociologist, Humanist, Political Theorist and Revolutionary.Karl Heinrich Marx was born the third of seven children of a Jewish family in Trier, in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine.

Marx was educated at home until the age of thirteen. After graduating from the Trier Gymnasium, Marx enrolled in the University of Bonn in 1835 at the age of seventeen to study Law, where he joined the Trier Tavern Club drinking society and at one point served as its president; his grades suffered as a result. Marx was interested in studying philosophy and literature, but his father would not allow it because he did not believe that his son would be able to comfortably support himself in the future as a scholar.

Marx & Engels among German workers.
Between 1845 and 1848, Engels and Marx lived in Brussels, spending much of their time organizing the city's German workers.

Marx & Engels working on the Manifesto painting by V Polyakov 1961.
Shortly after their arrival, they contacted and joined the underground German Communist League and were commissioned by the League to write a pamphlet explaining the principles of Communism. This became the The Manifesto of the communist party, better known as the Communist Manifesto. It was first published on February 21, 1848.

Marx argued that Capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced Feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a classless society which emerges after a transitional period in which the state would be nothing else but the revolutionary Dictator ship of a Proletrait.

Marx was a relatively obscure figure in his own lifetime, his ideas began to exert a major influence on workers' movements shortly after his death. This influence was given added impetus by the victory of the Marxist Bolsheviks in the Russian October Revolution, and there are few parts of the world which were not significantly touched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth century.

Karl Marx was married to Jenny Won West Phalen, the educated daughter of a Prussian baron. Karl Marx's engagement to her was kept secret at first, and for several years was opposed by both the Marxes and Westphalens. Despite the objections, the two were married on June 19, 1843 in Kreuznacher Pauluskirche, Bad Kreuznach.

In 1867, well behind schedule, the first volume of Capital was published, a work which analyzed the capitalist process of production. Here, Marx elaborated his Labor theory of value and his conception of surplus value and exploitation which he argued would ultimately lead to a falling rate of profit and the collapse of industrial capitalism. Volumes II and III remained mere manuscripts upon which Marx continued to work for the rest of his life and were published posthumously by Engels.

In 1859, Marx was able to publish Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, his first serious economic work. In his journalistic work of this period, Marx championed the Union cause in the American Civil War.

The most important political event during the existence of the International was the Paris Commune of 1871 when the citizens of Paris rebelled against their government and held the city for two months. On the bloody suppression of this rebellion, Marx wrote one of his most famous pamphlets, The Civil War in France, an enthusiastic defense of the Commune.

Karl Marx in 1882.
Following the death of his wife Jenny in December 1881, Marx developed a Cattrrh that kept him in ill health for the last fifteen months of his life. It eventually brought on the Bronchitis and Pleurisy that killed him in London on March 14, 1883

He died a stateless person and was buried in Highgate Cemetry, London, on 17 March 1883. The messages carved on Marx's tombstone are: “WORKERS OF ALL LAND UNITE”, the final line of The Communist Manifesto, and Engels' version of the 11th Thesis on Feuerbach :

"THE PHILOSOPHERS HAVE ONLY INTERPRETED THE WORLD IN VARIOUS WAYS - THE POINT HOWEVER IS TO CHANGE IT."

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels monument in Marx-Engels-Forum, Berlin.

Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz.

Memorial to Karl Marx in Moscow. The inscription reads
"Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!"
which means
"Proletarians of all countries unite!"