Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Ford Rouge Factory Tour and Giant Screen Experience will be closed Monday, March 16, for a day of staff learning and development. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Ford Rouge Factory Tour and Giant Screen Experience will be closed Monday, March 16, for a day of staff learning and development. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

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Thomas Edison

  • Thomas Edison Perfecting His Wax Cylnder Phonograph, 1888 (Object ID: P.B.34600).
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    This Week on The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation: Pocket Printer

    What's new on The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation this weekend? A hardware store robot, Thomas Edison's patent models, a pocket printer, and more.
    April 09, 2015
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    Follow "The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation" Movement

    The very first episode of "The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation" airs tomorrow morning! We can't wait for you all to see the first episode, featuring our own Menlo Park Laboratory in Greenfield Village.
    September 26, 2014
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    Just Added to Our Digital Collections: Vagabonds Photos

    We’ve just digitized dozens of photos of the elaborate camping trips of Vagabonds, a quartet including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, businessman Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs.
    June 23, 2015
  • THF123465 / Daguerreotype of Thomas Edison as a Child, 1851
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    First Known Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison, circa 1851

    See the first-known photograph of Thomas Edison--a daguerreotype of the inventor as a child at age 4.
    February 15, 2012
  • Three gravestones beginning to fall over
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    Associated with an Icon

    We have just digitized over 50 images related to Greenfield Village's Edison homestead, the Canadian farmhouse owned by Thomas Edison’s grandparents, on its original site.
    December 14, 2015
  • Inside Menlo Park
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    Five Questions with... Rich Sheridan, Entrepreneur in Residence

    Get insights from Rich Sheridan, CEO and Chief Storyteller of Menlo Innovations, and The Henry Ford's second Entrepreneur in Residence.
    November 21, 2019
  • thf125222 A scene from the 1940 motion picture, “Young Tom Edison,” starring Mickey Rooney. THF125222 spencertracy Spencer Tracy portrayed the inventor in the film, “Edison the Man,” released later that same year. THF58062
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    Thomas Edison Goes Hollywood

    How did Greenfield Village play a pivotal role in the production of two classic films about Thomas Edison?
    October 12, 2019
  • Nighttime Lighting Rehearsal at Henry Ford Museum, Preparing for Light's Golden Jubilee, October 18, 1929. THF96024
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    Light’s Golden Jubilee Honors Thomas Edison and Dedicates a Museum

    On October 21, 1929, Henry Ford hosted an elaborate celebration in honor of the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s invention of the electric light — and as a dedication of the Edison Institute (now The Henry Ford).
    October 09, 2019
  • Edison Chemical or Electrolytic Meter
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    Electricity? I’ll Take a Pound…

    Thomas Edison's Chemical Meter was designed to keep track of customers' electricity usage—by weight.
    October 19, 2017
  • THF164030 / Seashells, Collected by Thomas Edison, Fort Myers, Florida, circa 1885
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    Thomas Edison, Innovator and Beachcomber

    We've just digitized shadowboxes filled with seashells collected by inventor Thomas Edison in Fort Myers, Florida.
    May 12, 2016