They were not diplomats or jazz musicians, or even organizers of reading-rooms and photo-montage displays, but rugged capitalist entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Hugh Cooper, Thomas Campbell, the International Harvester Co., and David W. Griffith.

Henry Ford spoke of me as `` utterly astounding ''.

But Henry Ford used the planetary transmission in his Model T and earlier cars and, in 1905, as a precautionary measure, took out a license from the man who claimed to be its inventor.

Henry Ford was the first to master the moving assembly line and was able to improve other aspects of industry by doing so ( such as reducing labor hours required to produce a single vehicle, and increased production numbers and parts ).

According to Henry Ford:

* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

* 1947 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company ( b. 1863 )

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the Henry Ford and Louis Chevrolet of their times, who capitalized on ideas already commonly known before they started in the business.

* On Higher Ground: Selections From the Walter O. Evans Collection, group show, 2001, Henry Ford Museum, Michigan

* 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T ( b. 1878 )

He received his middle name in honor of Henry Ford, as he was born at the Henry Ford Hospital.

In 1926, Henry Ford displayed an experimental single-seat aeroplane that he called the " sky flivver ".

One notable design, Henry Smolinski's Mizar, made by mating the rear end of a Cessna Skymaster with a Ford Pinto, disintegrated during test flights, killing Smolinski and the pilot.

Henry Ford II had wanted a Ford at Le Mans since the early 1960s.

Enzo cut the deal off out of spite and Henry Ford II, enraged, directed his racing division to find a company that could build a Ferrari-beater on the world endurance-racing circuit.

He acquired goats, a rooster he called " Henry Ford ", and a poodle puppy he called " Marx " and settled down to animal husbandry and writing Homage to Catalonia.

Henry Ford ( July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947 ) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Henry Ford's siblings include Margaret Ford ( 1867 – 1938 ); Jane Ford ( c. 1868 – 1945 ); William Ford ( 1871 – 1917 ) and Robert Ford ( 1873 – 1934 ).

Henry I's biggest source of concerns was his brother — Robert I of Burgundy — who was pushed by his mother to the conflict.

The suspicious death of King William II of England, was a ritual sacrificial killing of a sacred king carried out by Henry I, a man so pious he later founded one of the biggest Abbeys in England.

In time Whitehouse and Enfield became disturbed that Loadsamoney was being seen in a positive light, rather than as a satirical figure, and they had him run over during a Comic Relief Red Nose Day show while leaving the studio after presenting host Lenny Henry with " the biggest cheque of the night "— a physically huge cheque for ten pence.

Ten years later, in 1955-1956, he had his biggest stage success as the crusading lawyer, Henry Drummond ( based on Clarence Darrow ), in Inherit the Wind, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.

As Henry Pleasants has observed, she has a wider range than most opera singers, and many of the latter, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, are among her biggest fans.

One of Patchen's biggest literary supporters was the novelist Henry Miller who wrote a long essay on Patchen, entitled Patchen: Man of Anger and Light in 1946.

The weekly show regularly featured guest artists, and the biggest stars of the day appeared ( including Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Tennessee Ernie Ford ).

Henry tells Bolie that he made " the biggest, tallest wish " he could come up with for Bolie, for the two boxers to switch positions, and it came true.

Henry remembers making the biggest wish he possibly could for Bolie, but obviously it did not work, so he declares with resignation that he will not be making any more wishes.

Royal interest in England began with Henry V ( reigned 1413 – 22 ) but it was Henry VIII ( reigned 1509 – 47 ) who made the biggest impact as a young monarch, playing the game with gusto at Hampton Court on a court he had built in 1530, when he was in his late thirties ( Born 28 June 1491 ) and on several other courts in his palaces.

Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on " the two biggest things in the entertainment world today "— James Bond and Inspector Clouseau.

After her starring role in The Flag Lieutenant that same year, directed by and co-starring Henry Edwards, she worked exclusively under Wilcox's direction for all but one of her subsequent films, becoming one of Britain's biggest stars.

The biggest factor in the defeat of Fort Henry was not the naval artillery or Grant's infantry ; it was the rising flood waters of the Tennessee, which flooded the powder magazines and forced a number of the guns out of action.

Vietnamization fit into the broader Nixon Administration detente policy, in which the United States no longer regarded its fundamental strategy as containment of Communism, but a cooperative world order in which Nixon and his chief adviser Henry Kissinger were basically " realists " in world affairs, interested in the broader constellation of forces, and the biggest powers.

Stempel drew the evening's biggest laugh when he was asked the fate of four of Henry VIII's wives and answered, " They all died.

Henry defeated Istook, gathering 66. 5 % of the total vote — the biggest landslide in an Oklahoma governor's race in almost half a century.

His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's Richard II, a production whose unexpected success was the surprise of the 1937 theatre season and allowed Evans to play Hamlet ( 1938 ) ( the first time that the play was performed uncut on the New York stage ), Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 ( 1939 ), Macbeth ( 1941 ) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night ( 1942 ) opposite the Viola of Helen Hayes, all under the direction of Margaret Webster.

Her agency also represented many of the biggest names in the fashion industry including Katharine Hamnett, Jasper Conran, and Jean-Paul Gaultier ; figures from the world of entertainment such as Annie Lennox, Lenny Henry and Ruby Wax, and even worked briefly with the Labour Party in 1986, helping to promote Neil Kinnock ahead of the 1987 general election.

Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was also descended from this family, while othor reputable Virginian's from the nineteenth century were Thomas Fitzpatrick a noted London physician, and entrepreneur Joseph Rathborne the son of local mill owner Henry Talbot Rathborne, Joseph went to America and created the world's biggest lumber mill with the Rathborne Cypress Lumber Company in Louisiana.

In June 1159 Henry II gathered in Poitiers what probably was the biggest army he had ever sent, formed by troops from all of his fiefdom ( from Gascony to England ), that army also included reinforcements sent by Thierry and Malcolm IV.

He said he had attended a dinner organised by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in which several CEOs of ' the biggest banks in the U. S ' had admitted they ( or perhaps bankers in general ) were ' too greedy ' and bore part of the responsibility for the crisis.

The Edsel was a controversially styled car that bore the name of Henry Ford's son, Edsel Ford, and is now considered one of the biggest car flops in history.

Nevertheless it reached a circulation of 10, 000 copies and was one of the biggest magazines of its time with authors such as Henry Fielding, John Gay and Alexander Pope contributing to it.