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- Watt Canal Pumping Engine in Henry Ford Museum, April 1938 - Boulton and Watt built this engine for the Warwick and Birmingham Canal Navigation Company in 1796. It was used at the Bowyer Street pumping station in Birmingham, England, to pump water on the Bordesley Canal until 1854, when it was superseded by a more modern engine. The engine remained in the pumping station until coming to The Henry Ford in 1929.
- April 06, 1938
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Watt Canal Pumping Engine in Henry Ford Museum, April 1938
Boulton and Watt built this engine for the Warwick and Birmingham Canal Navigation Company in 1796. It was used at the Bowyer Street pumping station in Birmingham, England, to pump water on the Bordesley Canal until 1854, when it was superseded by a more modern engine. The engine remained in the pumping station until coming to The Henry Ford in 1929.
- Exhibition Poster, "American Printmaking: The First 150 Years," 1970 -
- 11 March 1970 - 12 April 1970
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Exhibition Poster, "American Printmaking: The First 150 Years," 1970
- Lord Mountbatten Touring Henry Ford Museum, April 8, 1972 - Lord Mountbatten was great-grandson of Queen Victoria, a British World War II hero and viceroy of India in 1947 during that country's partitioning and independence. In April 1972, he toured Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, accompanied by Henry Ford II and Edison Institute's president, Donald Shelley. The group toured many of the museum exhibits including the working steam engines.
- April 08, 1972
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Lord Mountbatten Touring Henry Ford Museum, April 8, 1972
Lord Mountbatten was great-grandson of Queen Victoria, a British World War II hero and viceroy of India in 1947 during that country's partitioning and independence. In April 1972, he toured Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, accompanied by Henry Ford II and Edison Institute's president, Donald Shelley. The group toured many of the museum exhibits including the working steam engines.
- Toy Shop in Henry Ford Museum "Street of Shops" Exhibit, circa 1941 - Henry Ford encouraged and appreciated the work of artist and illustrator Irving Bacon. In 1915, Bacon joined the Photographic Department of Ford Motor Company after he returned from studying art in Europe. Over the next thirty years, Bacon painted scenes depicting Ford's life, created portraiture, and illustrated articles for company publications. This drawing depicts the Street of Shops exhibit in the Henry Ford Museum.
- circa 1941
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Toy Shop in Henry Ford Museum "Street of Shops" Exhibit, circa 1941
Henry Ford encouraged and appreciated the work of artist and illustrator Irving Bacon. In 1915, Bacon joined the Photographic Department of Ford Motor Company after he returned from studying art in Europe. Over the next thirty years, Bacon painted scenes depicting Ford's life, created portraiture, and illustrated articles for company publications. This drawing depicts the Street of Shops exhibit in the Henry Ford Museum.
- Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing a Vidicon Television Camera Tube, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958 - Vladimir Zworykin was an early pioneer of television development, employed by Westinghouse and the Radio Corporation of America. Here he presents a Vidicon camera tube, to be donated to the museum. Vidicon tubes allowed bulky, expensive broadcast television cameras to become smaller and cheaper beginning in the 1950s. Zworykin's iconoscope and kinescope picture tubes were breakthroughs in television history.
- April 30, 1958
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Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing a Vidicon Television Camera Tube, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958
Vladimir Zworykin was an early pioneer of television development, employed by Westinghouse and the Radio Corporation of America. Here he presents a Vidicon camera tube, to be donated to the museum. Vidicon tubes allowed bulky, expensive broadcast television cameras to become smaller and cheaper beginning in the 1950s. Zworykin's iconoscope and kinescope picture tubes were breakthroughs in television history.
- Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing Donald Shelley a Portable Television Camera, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958 -
- April 30, 1958
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Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing Donald Shelley a Portable Television Camera, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958
- 1927 Boeing Model 40-B2 Biplane on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, June 2007 - Boeing's Model 40-B2 airplane used an air-cooled radial engine. Carrying capacity that would have been spent on a radiator and water could instead be used for mail or passengers. When <em>Heroes of the Sky</em> opened at The Henry Ford in 2003, the Model 40-B2 represented designer and manufacturer William E. Boeing in the exhibit's "Entrepreneurs" section.
- June 01, 2007
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1927 Boeing Model 40-B2 Biplane on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, June 2007
Boeing's Model 40-B2 airplane used an air-cooled radial engine. Carrying capacity that would have been spent on a radiator and water could instead be used for mail or passengers. When Heroes of the Sky opened at The Henry Ford in 2003, the Model 40-B2 represented designer and manufacturer William E. Boeing in the exhibit's "Entrepreneurs" section.
- Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007 - This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the <em>Heroes of the Sky</em> exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.
- September 01, 2007
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Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007
This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the Heroes of the Sky exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.
- Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007 - This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the <em>Heroes of the Sky</em> exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.
- September 01, 2007
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Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007
This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the Heroes of the Sky exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.
- Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007 - This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the <em>Heroes of the Sky</em> exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.
- September 01, 2007
- Collections - Artifact
Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007
This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the Heroes of the Sky exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.