Chiro Couple: Day 3 The Henry Ford: Greenfield Village

The thing that strikes me as remarkable about men like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers is that they all used the gifts and talents that God gave them to invent things that changed the world! They used those gifts but also equally remarkable was the determination, persistance and passion that they exhibited in their efforts.

This part of the Henry Ford complex is a village with historically significant buildings situated along streets that allow only Model T cars and horse drawn carriages for giving people tours. Henry Ford wanted to preserve not only his boyhood home but he had his friend, Thomas Edison's work complex moved from Menlo Park, New Jersey to Greenfield Village.

Henry Ford

An example of one of the buildings is the house where Henry Ford grew up. He had it taken from it's original location a couple of miles away and put in the village exactly as it was when he lived there.

Henry Ford's boyhood home

Pictures of the kitchen in Henry Ford's boyhood home

The Wright Brothers

He also moved the Wright Brother's home from Dayton, Ohio to Greenfield Park. He even moved train car loads of the soil that it was built on!

"God is our Refuge and Strength" above a doorway

The Wright Brother's father was a minister but it was their mother who encouraged them to work with tools and machines. Their father supported his sons in their bicycle business. This is the way that they got the money to build their airplane. The workshop for it was in the back of the bike shop!

Thomas Edison

These are pictures of Thomas Edison's work complex: where he invented much more than the light bulb!

Edison's machine shop in the Menlo Park Complex was powered by a huge steam furnace at one end of the shop and the pulleys along the ceiling had belts to run different machines

A demonstration of Edison's phonograph was fascinating.

Edison's laboratory in the Menlo Park complex was "the birthplace of Thomas Edison's electric lighting system, the first phonograph (the first record player), and many other inventions. He believed the best creations came from people working together. His team of workers brought both traditional craft skills and new scientific knowledge to the exciting challenges facing them at this laboratory."

"In 1876, Thomas Edison set a goal to have one major invention every six months and one minor invention every 10 days. He came very close to achieving that goal."

"Thomas Edison needed people with a variety of talents to keep his 'invention factory' running."

English Cottage circa 1600's

Ford even had this 1600 era English cottage brought over and rebuilt. The garden was very beautiful.