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Purpose and benefits

Henry Ford (1863–1947) was part engineer, part inventor, and part entrepreneur. A talent for engineering and curiosity drove Ford to develop a prototype automobile in his garden. His flair helped him found the Ford Motor Company to develop his prototype. By 1924 Ford had sold ten million Model T Fords—the car famously available in a choice of colours so long as it was black. On his way to ten million sales Ford broke the land speed record and the mould of manufacturing. During his lifetime his introduction of mass production assembly line methods irrevocably changed the nature of manufacturing, something for which, for once, the use of the phrase ‘paradigm shift’ is wholly justified.