Mason Bogie locomotive
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Mason Bogie locomotives are a type of articulated tank locomotive suited for sharp curves and uneven track, once commonly used on narrow-gauge railways in the United States. The design is a development of the Single Fairlie locomotive.
The Wm. Mason, an 1874 0-6-6 Mason Bogie and the first locomotive with Walschaerts valve gear built in the United States. Note the intricate decorative work.
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn #6, an 1886 product of Mason Machine Works. This is a 2-4-4 Mason Bogie. Note the deep firebox permitted by this configuration, and the high reversing shaft (below the bell) with a long lifting link to the valve gear radius rod.
Torch Lake at Greenfield Village
The Henry Ford
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The Henry Ford is a history museum complex in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, United States. The museum collection contains the presidential limousine of John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, the Rosa Parks bus, and many other historical exhibits. It is the largest indoor–outdoor museum complex in the United States and is visited by over 1.7 million people each year. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 as Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1981 as "Edison Institute".
The museum clock tower. The building is a replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
Buckminster Fuller's prototype Dymaxion house, in the Henry Ford Museum
1903 Wright Flyer replica