Henry Ford Museum

Here is some information about Henry Ford Museum (The Henry Ford)

The Henry Ford is located
next to Greenfield Village, in Dearborn Michigan. Dearborn is a suburb of Detroit, just west of the
city of Detroit. Dearborn is the home of Ford Headquarters, The H. Ford Museum, The Automotive
Hall of Fame, even old homes including Henry Ford's own, and numerous other attractions. This remarkable Museum is filled with many unusual inventions, cars, trains, motorcycles, and manufacturing demonstrations. There are robots, old machines, new machines, steam engines galore, and huge generators moved from power plants to display their functions. It even has an old train engine called the "Lima Allegheny"

You don't have to be a train buff to appreciate this huge monstrosity.   It is supposed to be the
biggest train car ever built, and looks like it too! Greenfield village is a village made up of many original old shops from across the country. Many old homes and farms, delivered in whole (one piece) to the village by train.  With the huge loss of manufacturing jobs recently, it is appropriate to see that manufacturing is given
such a grandiose display as the Henry Ford Museum. In 2003 they held the "One Hundredth Anniversary"
of Ford Motor Company.   For one dollar, you can mold your own plastic toys in the manufacturing
section. For those interested in manufacturing history, the museum is no doubt, mind boggling.

Ford once said: “One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his
great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”

One highly recommended trip for anyone interested in
the history of manufacturing. The Henry Ford.

Today The
Henry Ford" contains around 12 acres of
museum items. Including...

Films, videos, tools, machines.   A working conveyor from a Ford operation.
Plastic molding machines for kids to mold toys. IMAX theater.
An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. One of George Washington's beds.
Edison's alleged last breath...... in a sealed tube.
Igor Sikorsky's prototype helicopter.
The rocking chair from Ford's Theater where
Abraham Lincoln was shot.
The 1961 Lincoln JFK was assassinated in.,
A model prototype of a Ford Nucleon automobile.
A ten-person bicycle made from the 1890's.
A collection of very rare 17th and 18th century violins.
The original Rosa Parks bus. The Newcomen style engine.
The Fokker airplane that flew the first flight
over the North Pole.

The Museum has twelve acres of pretty amazing stuff.
The"Lima Allegheny" a massive, intact train engine, old furniture section,
antiques, food, unusual cars, bicycles, motors, odd appliances, wagons, trucks, a
massive building sized generator, classic automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles and
many, many, other items. A bus also transports people to the Ford Rouge factory
tour. The Ford Rouge Factory wan an industrial complex where Henry
Ford has built cars and once employed 100,000 people.

Ford Motor Company celebrated production of its 300 millionth vehicle
recently. In a large ceremony at the Dearborn Assembly Plant near the museum,
Bill Ford, Grandson of Henry Ford drove a red 2004 Ford Mustang GT convertible
off the assembly line. General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker, says it
built roughly 400 million vehicles worldwide since its founding in 1908.

Only an estimate....Open 9:30 a.m.-5pm Mon.-Sat.
Sunday Noon-5p.m.
20900 Oakwood Blvd. Dearborn, Michigan
48124

In the early 1800's buying tools, machinery, furniture and food was becoming more and more
expensive, and many British manufacturers began to adopt mass production methods, but not all
of them. Hand made goods were gradually becoming a product which people couldn't afford. Farms
were also becoming mechanized and this made certain foods more affordable. Those who practiced
the new methods, who learned any new techniques would often be at a greater advantage.
England had recently lost the war with the colonies and they surely had to come up with a solution.
The next invention practiced really wasn't an invention but it was a practice, a method. That was
where a few mechanics designed their highly accurate machines to do only one process at
a time, where before things were made by hand, usually from start to finish,
by one individual.

Henry Ford knew long ago that "If you want to have your cake
and eat it too, you have to put the cake in the oven."

Click on sketch of a similar brass made measuring
stick from China around 20-200 AD.
It has 14 graduations.

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