The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and as the Edison Institute) is a history museum complex in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, United States.
The museum collection contains the presidential limousine of John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln’s chair from Ford’s Theatre, Thomas Edison’s laboratory, the Wright Brothers’ bicycle shop, the Rosa Parks bus, and many other historical exhibits.
It is the largest indoor–outdoor museum complex in the United States and is visited by over 1.7 million people each year. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 as Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1981 as “Edison Institute”.
These photos were taken by Steve Brown that give a glimpse into historic industry inside the Henry Ford Museum.
1816 Henry Maudslay precision lathe
1829 Stephenson ‘Rocket’ at the Henry Ford Museum. Robert Stephenson built the ‘Rocket’ in 1829 as the winning entry in a locomotive design contest. Though quite simple in design, the locomotive attained a speed of 29 1/2 mph
1891 Edison general electric 500 Kilowatt dynamo no.4
1891 Edison steam engine and electric generator
1897 general electric generator (detail) at the Henry Ford Museum
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