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16 June 1903: for better and for worse, the incorporation of Ford Motor Company by Henry Ford marked one of the most consequential moments in the history of transportation.
Although the automobile itself predated Ford's enterprise, it was Ford's vision of efficient mass production — most famously realised through the moving assembly line — that transformed the motor car from a luxury curiosity into a practical possession for ordinary people and, really, a necessity for greater than ninety per cent of Americans today.
Ford’s success reshaped cities, commerce, industry, and daily life all over the world, granting millions an unprecedented degree of personal mobility (and a whole lot of headaches as well, the bloody money pits).
In this age, and in the congested, overpopulated place where I live, I hate driving with a passion; but it would be outright ethereal to go back in time, to when there was room to breathe, and take a ride in an original Model T. With a pretty lady by my side, of course, but I digress.
If Henry Ford had somehow been granted immortality, we would probably have flying cars by now, and perhaps much more besides. Henry Ford: an absolute genius, in spite of some of his unfortunate notions about Jewish people, and in spite of all the downsides that motor vehicles present in our lives and to our environment.
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