Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero ... Edison, who was convinced the future lay in electric powered cars, encouraged Ford to "keep at it." In 1907, Ford was on the brink of releasing the ...

If you want to get excited about prewar cars, look into the Old Car Festival, held at the beginning of September in ...

"Ford only spent about two weeks out of the year here, whereas Thomas Edison would spend two to four months," Alexander said. "So, he really treated this as the entire winter season, whereas Henry ...

For many years, Henry Ford took annual camping trips with the "vagabonds" - his close friends Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs - with an entourage of servants, photographers ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

Henry Ford was an American ... had a job as an engineer at Detroit’s Edison Illuminating Co., founded by Thomas Edison (who would go on to mentor Ford and become his lifelong friend).

There is also a cocktail bar, called Four Vagabonds, which pays homage to the road trips Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John Burroughs, and Harvey Firestone took in the early 1900s, according to the ...