Henry Ford and Son Laboratories series, 1913-1919.

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Henry Ford and Son Laboratories series, 1913-1919.

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The Henry Ford and Son Laboratories series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence with companies pertaining to research and research proposals. A portion of the correspondence deals specifically with Henry Ford's search to find alternatives to gasoline as tractor fuel.

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Henry Ford and Son Laboratories.

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Henry Ford and Son Laboratories operated on the third floor of the powerhouse on Henry Ford's Fair Lane estate. The purpose of this company was to carry out mechanical, botanical and chemical research. One of their projects was the distillation of alcohol from vegetable matter for use as tractor fuel. From the description of Henry Ford and Son Laboratories series, 1913-1919. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 51269188 ...