The Ford Quadricycle was the first vehicle developed by Henry Ford. Ford's first car was a simple frame with a gas-powered engine mounted onto four bicycle wheels.
Ford Quadricycle
Ford Quadricycle replica in the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan
The Henry Ford is a history museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, within Metro Detroit. The museum collection contains the presidential limousine of John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln's c
Ford Quadricycle
…mph (32 km/h). Ford would later go on to found the Ford Motor Company and become one of the world's richest men. The original Quadricycle resides at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Several Ford Quadricycle replicas exist. Enthusiast Burnard Jarstfer built a replica, to resemble the original as close as he…
The museum clock tower. The building is a replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
The Weiser Railroad's Torch Lake locomotive on the turntable in front of the roundhouse
Buckminster Fuller's prototype Dymaxion house, in the Henry Ford Museum
This 4-4-0 locomotive at the Henry Ford Museum was originally built in 1858 by Rogers Locomotive Works as the “Satilla” for the Atlantic & Gulf RR in Georgia. In 1924, Henry Ford had it restored in his Rouge Factory, and named it the “Sam Hill” in honor of an engineer that he admired as a boy. In 1929, the engine was renamed “The President” in honor of President Herbert Hoover, and it pulled Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Hoover from Detroit to Dearborn, Michigan for the dedication ceremonies of the Henry Ford Museum.