What We Don’t Know About Henry Ford? A country boy who became friends with Hitler [ENG DUB]

How did this man become the king of cars? After all, he never learned to read blueprints in his entire life, and the engineers simply made a wooden model for him, which he studied. What life rules did this person follow?
Let's see the secret of one of the most famous industrialists in history - Henry Ford.
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Time codes:
0:00 - Start
0:19 - Childhood
2:04 - Worker and farmer
2:53 - Wife and family
5:37 - First quad bike
6:10 - Life's work
8:48 - Ford Motor Company
13:21 - Success
16:52 - Difficulties
18:41 - Ford and Hitler
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Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in the family of a Michigan farmer, an emigrant from Ireland. His father was dissatisfied with him, considering him lazy and a sissy; his son behaved like a prince who accidentally found himself on a farm. Henry did everything he was told to do reluctantly. He hated chickens and cows and couldn't stand milk. “Already in my early youth I thought that many things could be done differently - in some other way.” For example, he, Henry, has to climb steep stairs every morning, carrying buckets of water. Why do this every day if you can just lay two meters of water pipes underground?
When his son turned twelve, his father gave him a pocket watch. He could not resist - he pryed off the lid with a screwdriver, and something wonderful was revealed to his eyes. The parts of the mechanism interacted with each other, one wheel moved another, every cog was important here. Having disassembled and reassembled the watch, the boy thought for a long time. What is the world if not one big mechanism? One movement is generated by another, everything has its own levers. To achieve success, you just need to know which levers to press. Henry quickly learned how to repair watches and for a while even worked part-time, touring surrounding farms and repairing broken chronometers. The second shock was the meeting with the locomobile. Henry and his father were returning by cart from the city when they encountered a huge self-propelled vehicle shrouded in steam. Having overtaken the cart and frightened the horses, the smoking and hissing monster rushed past. At that moment, Henry would have given half his life to be there in the driver's cab.
At the age of 15, Ford left school and walked at night, without telling anyone, to Detroit: he would never become a farmer, as his father wanted.
At the factory where he got a job, they made horse-drawn carriages. He didn't last long here. Ford only had to touch the broken mechanism to understand what was wrong. Other workers began to envy the gifted newcomer. They did everything to survive the upstart plant, and succeeded in this - Ford was fired. Henry later got a job at the Flower Brothers shipyard. And at night he worked part-time by repairing watches so that he could pay for the room.
Meanwhile, William Ford decided to make one last attempt to return his son to farming: he offered 40 acres of land on the condition that he would never utter the word “car” again in his life. Unexpectedly, Henry agreed. The father was pleased, and the son too. Gullible William had no idea that his son was simply fooling him.
Soon Henry Ford decided to get married. Clara Bryant was three years younger than him. They met at a village dance. Ford was a brilliant dancer and amazed the girl by showing her his pocket watch and declaring that he had made it himself. They had a lot in common - just like Henry, Clara was born into a farmer’s family and did not disdain any kind of work. The girl’s parents are pious and strict people; of course, they would not give her up for a young man without a penny, without land and a house.
Having hastily built a cozy house on his property, Henry settled in it with his young wife. Many years later, the automobile monarch would say: “My wife believed in my success even more strongly than I did. She has always been like this." Clara could spend hours listening to her husband talk about the idea of creating a self-propelled carriage. Throughout her long family life, she always knew how to maintain an elegant balance - she was interested in her husband's affairs, but never interfered in them.
On the farm, he came up with a gasoline-powered grain thresher. Ford sells the patent for this invention to Thomas Edison, and he invites Henry to his company. However, even there, in the position of chief engineer, Henry is still most attracted to cars.
Having married in 1887, he would live with his wife all his life. Once, when asked by journalists whether he wants to live another life, Ford will answer this way: “Only if he can marry Clara again.”
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