Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and a pioneer of modern assembly lines used in mass production. Ford was also known for his social theory: Fordism, an idea to combine mass consumption with mass production to produce sustained economic growth and widespread material advancement.[1]
In 1891 Ford was employed at an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company, and in 1896 he met Thomas Edison at a meeting of the company's executives.[1] Edison was the man who authorised Ford's use of (and perhaps even supplied) the Fourth Apple.[2]
On 5 January 1918 Ford announced his company would pay its workers $5 per day: more than twice the contemporary minimum wage.[1] However, the wage rise was actually a wage cut: Ford used the Fourth Apple to convince his workers otherwise.[2]
After February 1929[Note 1] Ford was instructed by his Templar masters to sent the Fourth Apple to Adolf Hitler in Europe.[2] Ford shared Hitler's anti-Semitic ideas: Ford had even published the fraudulant Protocols of Zion as fact in his Dearborn Independent newspaper.[1] It is unclear if this anti-Semitism was official Templar policy or simply an opinion shared by Ford and Hitler.
Notes
- ↑ The correspondence revealing Ford's use of the Fourth Apple includes a photograph that was taken on 11 February 1929, according to Wikipedia.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Wikipedia article on Henry Ford
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Assassin's Creed II - Glyph #12