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The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI, has tons of interesting exhibits dedicated to turn-of-the-century industrialism. But tucked away, behind a still-running Edison Triple Expansion Steam engine ...
Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero. In 1896, shortly after building his quadricycle, Henry Ford had the chance to meet the famous inventor at a convention in New York.
That Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were good friends late in their lives is well-known. They camped together, presented each other with lavish gifts, even owned homes adjacent to each other. Many ...
American industrialist Henry Ford (at the wheel) and inventor Thomas Edison, seated in the back, are seen on one of Ford's automobiles at an unknown location in Florida in this 1914 photo.
Ninety years ago, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, two of America's greatest innovators, tried building one and failed. Daniel Strohl of Hemmings Blog tells us how they killed the electric car.
It only has a top speed of about 45 mph, but that hasn't kept Thomas Edison's 108-year-old Ford Model T from becoming the centerpiece for a simulated ride to the moon at American Dream mall. This ...
His 22nd book, “The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip,” takes a deep dive into the lives of a pair of men who made invaluable contributions to ...
It only has a top speed of about 45 mph, but that hasn't kept Thomas Edison's 108-year-old Ford Model T from becoming the centerpiece for a simulated ride to the moon at American Dream mall.
There are innumerbable cool artifacts to discover at The Henry Ford museum, but there's one thing—a simple photograph—that made a huge impression on us from a very young age: A black and white ...
But the closest parallel in American life to the trips taken by Ford, Edison, and Burroughs is actually the 1839 trip described by Henry David Thoreau in A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers.
Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero. In 1896, shortly after building his quadricycle, Henry Ford had the chance to meet the famous inventor at a convention in New York.