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The Benson Ford Research Center on YouTube
The Henry Ford’s YouTube channel offers a variety of videos covering events that take place here on campus to archival footage from our collections. As we celebrate the 150th birthday of Henry Ford...
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You’ve received a telegram, Mr. Ford
Located outside of the Benson Ford Research Center‘s reading room the past few weeks has been a case of birthday telegrams sent to Henry Ford on his birthday over the years. We asked Jake Hildebrandt,...
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VIDEO: Henry Ford’s Love of Violins
When you think of Henry Ford, you think of cars almost immediately. Violins probably don’t come to mind, do they? While it may come as a surprise to some today, Henry was a lover of violins and...
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Technical College in Rhode Island Establishes a Quadricycle Club
New England Institute of Technology, with three campuses in Rhode Island, has formed its own Quadricycle Club. The purpose of this club is to have Mechanical Engineering Technology (MCT) students, as...
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Part One: Number 7 is on Track
On June 12, 2013, the fully restored 1897 Baldwin Locomotive; affectionately known by The Henry Ford employees, volunteers and frequent roundhouse guests as “Number 7,” went onto the Greenfield Village...
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Henry Ford’s First Driver’s License
Driving without a license is a big no-no. It’s against the law, right? Today, more than 200 million people in the U.S. have driver’s licenses. It’s even sort of a right of a passage into adulthood when...
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VIDEO: Ford Driver Day at The Henry Ford
Earlier this summer we were honored to have some of NASCAR’s greatest drivers paired with the drivers of tomorrow for a tour across our campus. Take a look at this video as Curator of Transportation...
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Everything but the Kitchen Sink… Engine
Back in May, we received a visit to our reading room by a team of engineering students from Penn State Beaver, who were touring Greenfield Village. They had been out in the Village helping to install a...
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Pic of the Month: Ford Methods and the Ford Shops
In addition to the 150th anniversary of Henry Ford’s birth, this year brings us another important milestone. It was 100 years ago that Ford Motor Company combined the standardization of interchangeable...
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Henry Ford Added a Photo
Industrialist. Outdoorsman. Race car driver. Henry Ford did a lot, and we have photos to prove it – lots of photos. Here are 10 more of my favorites… The first is our main image, posted above. Henry...
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