Mechanical & electrical power collection, 1785-1940.

General Electric Company

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Founded 1892. Corporate interests include: Broadcasting; Electric Components; Household Appliances; Lighting Equipment; Motors; Telecommunications; Electromedical Industry. From the description of Technical records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865339 Founded 1892. From the description of General Electric Company in Camden, N.J., collection, 1878-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979711 Schenectady, NY. From the description of Electr...

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 ...

Smith, Fred.

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Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...

Campsall, Frank Charles, 1884-1946.

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Frank Campsall, personal secretary to Henry Ford, began his career with Ford Motor Company in 1912 in the purchasing department of the Highland Park plant. Over the next 34 years he became Ford's trusted friend and confidant. His job was to oversee the details of a multitude of Ford personal interests, and he often traveled with the Fords when they vacationed at their homes in Fort Myers, Florida, and Ways, Georgia. Campsall was born on January 2, 1884, in Essex, Ontario, Canada and moved with h...

Menlo Park Laboratory

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Henry Ford (Organization)

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Humberstone, James

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While a senior at the Henry Ford Trade School in 1927, James Humberstone came to Henry Ford's attention through articles Humberstone wrote for the school newspaper, The Artisan. Less than a year later, he was curator of Ford's vast collection of antiques and Americana then in storage in the old Dearborn Tractor Plant. Although Humberstone had no training for such work, he was soon responsible for planning the layout and arrangement of the collection in the Edison Institute (now The Henry Ford). ...

Edison Electric Light Company

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Parent company of all Edison electric light enterprises. Established in 1878. From the description of Edison Electric Light Company records, 1879-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984047 Edison Company was a major producer of motion pictures during early years of the film industry. From the description of Scripts, 1909-1916. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 86152578 ...

Morton, Herbert Frederick, 1890-1966.

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Herbert Morton collected heavily for Henry Ford in the creation of the Edison Institute (now The Henry Ford). Morton, an Englishman, acquired an extensive array of early steam engines and various other artifacts, including the Cotswold buildings now in Greenfield Village. From the description of Herbert Morton papers, 1929-1951. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 713683042 ...

Edison General Electric Company

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