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- Ford Engineering Laboratory Layout, Dearborn, Michigan, circa 1924 - This floor plan of Ford Motor Company's recently completed engineering laboratory nicely illustrates Henry Ford's varied interests during the mid-1920s. Ford Motor Company facilities included executive offices, and a laboratory and workshops for product development. The publishing office, storage space for antiques, and dance room accommodated Henry Ford's personal interests. The industrialist often blurred the line between his business and personal activities.
- circa 1924
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Ford Engineering Laboratory Layout, Dearborn, Michigan, circa 1924
This floor plan of Ford Motor Company's recently completed engineering laboratory nicely illustrates Henry Ford's varied interests during the mid-1920s. Ford Motor Company facilities included executive offices, and a laboratory and workshops for product development. The publishing office, storage space for antiques, and dance room accommodated Henry Ford's personal interests. The industrialist often blurred the line between his business and personal activities.
- Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, July 1936 - Built in 1923-1924, the Ford Engineering Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, housed the automaker's tool design, production engineering and experimental engineering research departments. Henry Ford had an office there and, throughout his lifetime, the lab was the true heart of Ford Motor Company. The facility was expanded and remodeled several times over the years.
- July 03, 1936
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Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, July 1936
Built in 1923-1924, the Ford Engineering Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, housed the automaker's tool design, production engineering and experimental engineering research departments. Henry Ford had an office there and, throughout his lifetime, the lab was the true heart of Ford Motor Company. The facility was expanded and remodeled several times over the years.
- Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, 1925-1929 - Built in 1923-1924, the Ford Engineering Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, housed the automaker's tool design, production engineering and experimental engineering research departments. Henry Ford had an office there and, throughout his lifetime, the lab was the true heart of Ford Motor Company. The facility was expanded and remodeled several times over the years.
- 1925-1929
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Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, 1925-1929
Built in 1923-1924, the Ford Engineering Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, housed the automaker's tool design, production engineering and experimental engineering research departments. Henry Ford had an office there and, throughout his lifetime, the lab was the true heart of Ford Motor Company. The facility was expanded and remodeled several times over the years.
- Edsel Ford and Henry Ford at Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, circa 1935 - Edsel Ford and Henry Ford are seen walking through Ford Motor Company's Engineering Laboratory in this still from a film shot around 1935. The relationship between the son and the father had grown increasingly difficult. Though Edsel was officially the company's president, Henry refused to relinquish control, and he sometimes overruled his son's decisions after the fact.
- circa 1935
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Edsel Ford and Henry Ford at Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, circa 1935
Edsel Ford and Henry Ford are seen walking through Ford Motor Company's Engineering Laboratory in this still from a film shot around 1935. The relationship between the son and the father had grown increasingly difficult. Though Edsel was officially the company's president, Henry refused to relinquish control, and he sometimes overruled his son's decisions after the fact.
- 1903 Ford Model A Runabout outside Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, 1926 - Ford Motor Company's first automobile, logically called Model A, was introduced in the summer of 1903. The little car featured a two-cylinder, horizontally opposed engine mated to a two-speed planetary transmission. Two-seat runabouts sold for $800 while four-seat tonneau versions were available for $900. Ford built more than 670 copies before retiring the model in 1904.
- November 29, 1926
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1903 Ford Model A Runabout outside Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, 1926
Ford Motor Company's first automobile, logically called Model A, was introduced in the summer of 1903. The little car featured a two-cylinder, horizontally opposed engine mated to a two-speed planetary transmission. Two-seat runabouts sold for $800 while four-seat tonneau versions were available for $900. Ford built more than 670 copies before retiring the model in 1904.
- Dance Room at the Ford Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, 1932 -
- May 02, 1932
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Dance Room at the Ford Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, 1932
- Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory Drafting Room, Dearborn, Michigan, 1928 - Built in 1923-1924, the Ford Engineering Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, housed the automaker's tool design, production engineering and experimental engineering research departments. Henry Ford had an office there and, throughout his lifetime, the lab was the true heart of Ford Motor Company. The facility was expanded and remodeled several times over the years.
- March 20, 1928
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Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory Drafting Room, Dearborn, Michigan, 1928
Built in 1923-1924, the Ford Engineering Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, housed the automaker's tool design, production engineering and experimental engineering research departments. Henry Ford had an office there and, throughout his lifetime, the lab was the true heart of Ford Motor Company. The facility was expanded and remodeled several times over the years.
- Aerial View of Henry Ford Museum and Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, 1930 - Henry Ford commissioned Detroit architect Robert O. Derrick to design the museum building for his Edison Institute. The massive structure, with more than nine acres of exhibition space, featured multiple references to colonial architecture along its front facade. The most prominent building was Derrick's detailed replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1930
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Aerial View of Henry Ford Museum and Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, 1930
Henry Ford commissioned Detroit architect Robert O. Derrick to design the museum building for his Edison Institute. The massive structure, with more than nine acres of exhibition space, featured multiple references to colonial architecture along its front facade. The most prominent building was Derrick's detailed replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Pedestal Desk, Used by Henry Ford at the Dearborn Engineering Laboratory -
- 1923
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Pedestal Desk, Used by Henry Ford at the Dearborn Engineering Laboratory
- Composing Room of Dearborn Publishing Company at the Ford Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, 1925 - Henry Ford purchased <em>The Dearborn Independent</em> and published it under his name from 1919 to 1927. It served as a forum for Ford's views, free from other media outlets that had attacked his work and values and were outside his control. <em>The Dearborn Independent</em> covered world events, business and economic news, and fiction from noted authors. Sadly, it also served as an outlet for Ford's anti-Semitic sentiments. Between 1920 and 1922, the weekly paper ran a series of front-page articles that denounced all things Jewish. Even after this series, many articles contained anti-Jewish language. Though Ford later apologized and printed a retraction, these notoriously anti-Semitic editorials and articles forever tarnished the influential automaker's reputation.
- August 29, 1925
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Composing Room of Dearborn Publishing Company at the Ford Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, 1925
Henry Ford purchased The Dearborn Independent and published it under his name from 1919 to 1927. It served as a forum for Ford's views, free from other media outlets that had attacked his work and values and were outside his control. The Dearborn Independent covered world events, business and economic news, and fiction from noted authors. Sadly, it also served as an outlet for Ford's anti-Semitic sentiments. Between 1920 and 1922, the weekly paper ran a series of front-page articles that denounced all things Jewish. Even after this series, many articles contained anti-Jewish language. Though Ford later apologized and printed a retraction, these notoriously anti-Semitic editorials and articles forever tarnished the influential automaker's reputation.