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[btg]

He also didn't believe cars should be any color other than black.

I am not sure that is exactly true. He said you could have a car any color you wanted as long as it was black. Not exactly the same thing. The reason for this is because colored paint didn't dry as quickly as black. That and black was cheap and durable made black the color of choice for mass production.

 

[Coss]

He also didn't believe cars should be any color other than black.
Sometimes people believe crazy things.
I believe robots are going to take over the world and kill us all...
Though I might have seen that in a movie.

Ford believed in making use of everything; he saw the shipping crates for everything just being tossed at first.
He figured out that he could specify how he wanted the crates built, and the size specs; he then had people take them apart and use them as the floorboards. Other small boards they used to make charcoal briquettes (That later became Kingsford <Kings/Ford> Charcoal).
Ford was a genius.

 

[Mel]

I am not sure that is exactly true. He said you could have a car any color you wanted as long as it was black. Not exactly the same thing. The reason for this is because colored paint didn't dry as quickly as black. That and black was cheap and durable made black the color of choice for mass production.

Limiting the paint color to one also greatly simplifies maintenance of the painting stations.

 

[Ty]

... It also made yellow THAT much more sought after.

 

[msmith5150]

Ford was a genius.

And later in his life a huge anti-Semite and terribly domineering over his son among other things, but can't deny the huge impact on industry!

 

[floydv]

And he founded the great state of Cantaffordia.

 

[Coss]

And later in his life a huge anti-Semite and terribly domineering over his son among other things, but can't deny the huge impact on industry!

They always say the line between genius and insanity is very narrow.

 

[Sethodine]

They always say the line between genius and insanity is very narrow.

This line makes me think of Elon "Hey, lets land this rocket on a barge out in the middle of the ocean" Musk.

 

[floydv]

This line makes me think of Elon "Hey, lets land this rocket on a barge out in the middle of the ocean" Musk.

I used to think he was insane, but sticking the landing three times in a row suggests otherwise.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

They always say the line between genius and insanity is very narrow.

A true genius knows that there is no line.