Gas-Steam Engine Used at the Ford Highland Park Plant, on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum in August 1937

THF707099 / Gas-Steam Engine Used at the Ford Highland Park Plant, on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum in August 1937

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

24 August 1937

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.7378

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.25 in
Width: 11 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs Interior views Engines (Power producing equipment) Museum exhibits Museums Hybrid engines Henry Ford (Organization). Henry Ford Museum

Artifact
Highland Park Plant Engine- Generator, 1915-1916
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.