Papers, 1950-1965.

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Papers, 1950-1965.

Photocopies of patents for automatic transmissions. Transcript of interview with Simpson and his wife, Gertrude, by Ford Motor Company Archives concerning his engineering career, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, Fordson tractor, transmissions, and Moral re-armament.

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Ford Archives

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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 ...

Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950

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Simpson, Howard, 1892-1963

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Engineer and inventor. From the description of Papers, 1950-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70953126 Howard Woodworth Simpson was born on May 8, 1892 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The family moved to Detriot where Howard finished high school and an apprentice program at Cadillac Motor Company before earning a degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. Simpson joined the engineering staff of Henry Ford & Son, Inc. in 1918. He worked directly under Henr...

Simpson, G. E.

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