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

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 ...

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).

"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 ...

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 ...