Papers, 1963-1966.

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Papers, 1963-1966.

"Thomas Edison," "Sketch of Henry Ford's Hometown," "A Detroit Sleighing Party of the 1780's," "Dearborn's First Pioneers, 1780-1796," "Potawatomi of the Rouge, 1701-1827," a collection of poetry: "Poems about Dearborn's Past," and a script: The Man from Dearborn: Pageant in Honor of Henry Ford's Centennial.

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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 ...

Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931

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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...

Woolworth, Nancy L.

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