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- NBC "Today" Show Broadcast from Greenfield Village, April 18, 1955 - In April 1955, NBC's <em>Today</em> show came to Detroit, Michigan, to cover the automotive industry. The morning news and entertainment show originated a remote broadcast from Greenfield Village on April 18th. Staff paraded a line of vehicles -- both horse-drawn carriages and automobiles -- past the cameras. NBC reporter Dick McCutcheon and museum curator Hayward Ablewhite provided commentary.
- April 18, 1955
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NBC "Today" Show Broadcast from Greenfield Village, April 18, 1955
In April 1955, NBC's Today show came to Detroit, Michigan, to cover the automotive industry. The morning news and entertainment show originated a remote broadcast from Greenfield Village on April 18th. Staff paraded a line of vehicles -- both horse-drawn carriages and automobiles -- past the cameras. NBC reporter Dick McCutcheon and museum curator Hayward Ablewhite provided commentary.
- M. William Grant and Randy Mason with Restored Ingersoll-Rand Diesel-Electric Locomotive No. 90 in Henry Ford Museum, January 1985 - Ingersoll-Rand, in collaboration with General Electric and American Locomotive Company, built diesel-electric locomotive #90 in 1926. Ingersoll-Rand used the locomotive in the railyard at its Phillipsburg, New Jersey, plant for some 40 years. Diesel-electric power proved more efficient and cost-effective than steam. Donated to The Henry Ford in 1970, the locomotive received a cosmetic restoration in 1983.
- January 01, 1985
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M. William Grant and Randy Mason with Restored Ingersoll-Rand Diesel-Electric Locomotive No. 90 in Henry Ford Museum, January 1985
Ingersoll-Rand, in collaboration with General Electric and American Locomotive Company, built diesel-electric locomotive #90 in 1926. Ingersoll-Rand used the locomotive in the railyard at its Phillipsburg, New Jersey, plant for some 40 years. Diesel-electric power proved more efficient and cost-effective than steam. Donated to The Henry Ford in 1970, the locomotive received a cosmetic restoration in 1983.
- NBC "Today" Show Broadcast from Greenfield Village, April 18, 1955 - In April 1955, NBC's <em>Today</em> show came to Detroit, Michigan, to cover the automotive industry. The morning news and entertainment show originated a remote broadcast from Greenfield Village on April 18th. Staff paraded a line of vehicles -- both horse-drawn carriages and automobiles -- past the cameras. NBC reporter Dick McCutcheon and museum curator Hayward Ablewhite provided commentary.
- April 18, 1955
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NBC "Today" Show Broadcast from Greenfield Village, April 18, 1955
In April 1955, NBC's Today show came to Detroit, Michigan, to cover the automotive industry. The morning news and entertainment show originated a remote broadcast from Greenfield Village on April 18th. Staff paraded a line of vehicles -- both horse-drawn carriages and automobiles -- past the cameras. NBC reporter Dick McCutcheon and museum curator Hayward Ablewhite provided commentary.
- Marion Armstrong Presents the First Portable Superheterodyne Radio Receiver to Henry Ford Museum, September 22, 1967 - This photograph shows the first portable superheterodyne radio receiver, designed by Edwin Armstrong. Superheterodying was a major communications discovery made by Armstrong. High and low frequencies were mixed to produce powerful, selective radio waves. Following his untimely death, Edwin's wife Marion Armstrong continued to preserve his legacy; she donated this radio to The Henry Ford museum in 1967.
- September 22, 1967
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Marion Armstrong Presents the First Portable Superheterodyne Radio Receiver to Henry Ford Museum, September 22, 1967
This photograph shows the first portable superheterodyne radio receiver, designed by Edwin Armstrong. Superheterodying was a major communications discovery made by Armstrong. High and low frequencies were mixed to produce powerful, selective radio waves. Following his untimely death, Edwin's wife Marion Armstrong continued to preserve his legacy; she donated this radio to The Henry Ford museum in 1967.
- Filming ABC-TV's World of Discovery at Menlo Park Laboratory in Greenfield Village, May 22, 1989 - In May 1989, ABC television crews filmed segments of <em>World of Discovery - Inventors: Out of their Minds</em> at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The show linked the experiences of late 20th-century inventors with Thomas Edison's innovative work. In one of the program's final segments, museum curator John Bowditch explains Edison's greatest invention -- the research laboratory -- to a group of students.
- May 22, 1989
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Filming ABC-TV's World of Discovery at Menlo Park Laboratory in Greenfield Village, May 22, 1989
In May 1989, ABC television crews filmed segments of World of Discovery - Inventors: Out of their Minds at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The show linked the experiences of late 20th-century inventors with Thomas Edison's innovative work. In one of the program's final segments, museum curator John Bowditch explains Edison's greatest invention -- the research laboratory -- to a group of students.
- Donald A. Shelley, 1954 - Donald A. Shelley earned advanced degrees in art history from Harvard and New York University. He became fine arts curator at the Edison Institute -- today's The Henry Ford -- in 1952, and two years later he was appointed executive director. Shelley's academic training and outlook helped professionalize the organization. He led the Edison Institute until 1976.
- 1954
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Donald A. Shelley, 1954
Donald A. Shelley earned advanced degrees in art history from Harvard and New York University. He became fine arts curator at the Edison Institute -- today's The Henry Ford -- in 1952, and two years later he was appointed executive director. Shelley's academic training and outlook helped professionalize the organization. He led the Edison Institute until 1976.
- Filming ABC-TV's World of Discovery at Menlo Park Laboratory in Greenfield Village, May 22, 1989 - In May 1989, ABC television crews filmed segments of <em>World of Discovery - Inventors: Out of their Minds</em> at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The show linked the experiences of late 20th-century inventors with Thomas Edison's innovative work. In one of the program's final segments, museum curator John Bowditch explains Edison's greatest invention -- the research laboratory -- to a group of students.
- May 22, 1989
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Filming ABC-TV's World of Discovery at Menlo Park Laboratory in Greenfield Village, May 22, 1989
In May 1989, ABC television crews filmed segments of World of Discovery - Inventors: Out of their Minds at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The show linked the experiences of late 20th-century inventors with Thomas Edison's innovative work. In one of the program's final segments, museum curator John Bowditch explains Edison's greatest invention -- the research laboratory -- to a group of students.
- NBC "Today" Show Broadcast from Greenfield Village, April 18, 1955 - In April 1955, NBC's <em>Today</em> show came to Detroit, Michigan, to cover the automotive industry. The morning news and entertainment show originated a remote broadcast from Greenfield Village on April 18th. Staff paraded a line of vehicles -- both horse-drawn carriages and automobiles -- past the cameras. NBC reporter Dick McCutcheon and museum curator Hayward Ablewhite provided commentary.
- April 18, 1955
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NBC "Today" Show Broadcast from Greenfield Village, April 18, 1955
In April 1955, NBC's Today show came to Detroit, Michigan, to cover the automotive industry. The morning news and entertainment show originated a remote broadcast from Greenfield Village on April 18th. Staff paraded a line of vehicles -- both horse-drawn carriages and automobiles -- past the cameras. NBC reporter Dick McCutcheon and museum curator Hayward Ablewhite provided commentary.
- Peter H. Cousins and Marion Harrel in the Firestone Farm Dining Room at its Original Site, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1983 -
- 1983
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Peter H. Cousins and Marion Harrel in the Firestone Farm Dining Room at its Original Site, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1983
- Curator of Agriculture Peter H. Cousins and Marion Harrel in the Parlor of Firestone Farm at its Original Site, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1983 -
- 1983
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Curator of Agriculture Peter H. Cousins and Marion Harrel in the Parlor of Firestone Farm at its Original Site, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1983