Gas-Steam Engine at the Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant Powerhouse, May 1916
THF707061 / Gas-Steam Engine at the Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant Powerhouse, May 1916
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Artifact Overview
Ford Motor Company opened its Highland Park plant in 1910. It was here that Ford produced most of its 15 million Model T cars, developed its moving assembly line, and instituted its Five Dollar Day. The plant's electricity was supplied by an on-site powerhouse with generators connected to nine gas-steam hybrid engines. Together, the nine engines produced 53,000 horsepower.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
29 May 1916
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
64.167.833.P.5694
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.5 in
Width: 10.75 in
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Ford's Model T mass production system would not have been practical without electricity; by 1919 nine of these Ford-designed hybrid internal combustion/steam engines generated the power needed by the Highland Park plant's assembly lines and associated machinery. By 1926 the engines were rendered obsolete when electricity was fed from the power plant at Ford's River Rouge plant ten miles away.