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
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.
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through
The Henry Ford
…and Henry Ford Museum and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1981 as "Edison Institute". Named for its founder, the automobile industrialist Henry Ford, and based on his efforts to preserve items of historical interest and portray the Industrial Revolution, the property houses homes, machinery, exhibits…
Henry Ford in 1888 (aged 25)
Henry Ford sits in his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in 1896.
Henry Ford with Thomas Edison and Harvey S. Firestone. Fort Myers, Florida, February 11, 1929.