The Henry Ford, Made in America
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2022
- The Henry Ford museum was our last major stop during our visit to Michigan. This place is absolutely incredible!We spent nearly the entire day there but we would recommend anyone who's interested in visiting to plant o visit it for two days to truly appreciate and learn about all of the exhibits. For the Abom79 channel this video will focus mainly around the machine tool, made in American and also the power generation exhibits. I will also publish a full length video on our @AbomAdventures channel showing all of the other areas of the museum. We had a great time there and wish we could have had more time. The Greenfield Village was closed during our visit so we did not get to enjoy that area.
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The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village are the best museums I’ve ever been to. I watched in amazement as a man operated a beautiful vintage belt driven lathe making a brass candle stick holder. I was and still am fascinated by the men and machines that made America.
First, I worked most of my 31 year career as an engineer Ford Ford Motor Company in the building just north of the museum on Oakwood Blvd. The building I worked in had many names since it was built about 100 years, but has now reverted back to it's original name, Ford Engineering Laboratory.
Second, you need to return to the area and go through Greenfield Village. It is an open air museum that has many historical buildings including Thomas Edison's Menlow Park and the Wright Brothers bicycle shop. It has at least one WORKING, over head line shaft machine shop. Many other things to see.
This, the original Ford factory in nearby Highland Park is still there. No machinery, but some very old cars.
I live less than an hour away and I have not been there in 30 years. I guess its time to go back. Thanks for sharing.
In the shop I work at, we have a Gray Planer that was retrofitted about 50 years ago with a Gray milling head upgrade. Still to this day is a rock solid machine. 30ft of travel. Surprisingly a very solid and still accurate machine to this day. Only other machine that old we have, that is still accurate, is a Monarch lathe with 4ft roughly of swing.
Did you notice most of the parts that made up these old machinery were castings, large and small,makes me think of the pattern & mould makers, those fellows were true craftsmen.
In oil field machine shops, I ran a thread mill that threaded the ends of drill pipe, drill collars and other components. It's asset tag was 1616 and I used to swear that was the year it was manufactured :). You could see where it had been converted from drive line to electric engine.
I met a couple machinists who retired from GM. I could have stood there for a month and listened to their stories!
absolutely beautiful Adam thanks.
I would give anything to go back in time to work side by side for just 30 days with those men on those machines. Thanks Adam & Abby for sharing that visit.
Wow that’s amazing place, thanks for sharing.
With all those belts and open gears no wonder our grandfathers had missing fingers.. glad OSHA came along…
What an amazing museum. Thank you for taking the time to share that. However, after watching all those incredible machines and the remarkable men who invented and built them, I feel like every project I have ever done is the work of a child.
I work in this museum and knowing a79 likes old machine equipment I closed the museum the day after they left for an inventory audit. Haven't found anything missing yet - except from a pen from the check in counter and my lunch box.
Darn, I wish I knew you folks were up here, I would have joined you and taken you to dinner. I only live 15 min. from there. It is a world class place
that even a lot of people that live here don't know about. There is so much to see that it can't be seen in one day. Especially if you take the tour of
the Ford assembly plant. So glad you got to see it and sorry I missed you. ......Al C.
I would have joined you !
One of our favorite museums to visit. We went over 5 days along with Greenfield village and still didn't see everything. Great video as usual.
I am glad you made it to The Henry Ford. I think it is the best Muesume in the Country! Glad you enjoyed your visit to Michigan.
at 41:40 - Henry Maudsley was credited with making the first practical Thread Cutting Lathe in 1800, his lathes used triangular ways, which I thought was interesting, and distinctive.
He kicked off the British Industrial Revolution, and enabled the precision measurement tool industry. His micrometer could measure 1/10,000 of an inch, which was amazing at the time.
the british industrial revolution was already well underway by the time maudsley built his lathes
@@markgrant8771 You're right... I overlooked the pre-machine tooling part of it, thinking that it all started with the Boring machine, when in actuality it started much earlier.
I just watched this video. The indexing head on the Brown and sharpe milling machine is identical to one I have. I got it from the first machine shop I worked at. They had tossed it in the scrap metal bin. I rescued it and later made a set of indexing plates for it. I wish I knew what brand it is. This shop was a spin off the one my grandfather worked in. I never thought about this until now, but this indexer could have been used in the shop my grand dad worked in. Pretty cool museum. I would love to visit sometime.
Been there three or four times, the displays are constantly changing, such an amazing place!
Back before Covid we had a family membership to Henry Ford and Greenfield Village. I have spent a ton of time at both of them and I could still go back over and over again. Greenfield Village still has a functioning old school machine shop which is a lot of fun to go to and watch the machines in action.
I love the Ford museum. As a car guy, i went there for the automotive portion but then i discovered all this old equipment and i almost like that part more. My absolute favorite part is the gigantic steam engines they have which powered whole towns and factories.
side note; that glass press is probably mobile so they could bring it to the furnace and get the gobs from there. its a lot harder to make a mobile furnace.
Other side note, maybe that oiler project should be your first CNC project. tying the old into the new?
Other other side note, its pronounces ske-NECK-ta-dee.
As I watched you progress through the time periods in the museum one thing became apparent and that was the increased complexity of the giant castings. There was obviously an unspoken competition for each foundry to demonstrate their ever increasing mastery of casting by demonstrating more and more ornate and complex castings. There was obvious pride put into the creation and construction of these machines by the master craftsmen who made them.
~45 yrs ago, not long after I visited my father where he had moved 15 yrs after my parents divorced, he sent me to the local machine shop to pick up a new part for a printing press, (his hobby was offset printing.)
I was familiar w/ 60's era machine shops as I was into hot rodding. I lived about 100 miles south of Portland, OR; dad lived in a very small town on the southern OR coast.
What I was NOT prepared for was the Port Orford machine shop. It was exactly like the model machine Abom showed us at the museum. All these friggin' leather belts coming down from drive shafts on the ceiling.
To be honest, it was like an arm eating nightmare! All this stuff flapping & spinning... just waiting to eat a limb.
I got to know the only & visited when I could, just to marvel at the creative & effective, relative crudeness of this machinery compared to the world of 3 phase electricity.
I'd like to go see this museum; perhaps in my next life.
I recommend the numerous YT videos of the American auto industry; there are some terrific depression era videos about auto manufacturing. The Works project funded some high profile people in & around the movie industry to produce them.
The Henry Ford is best museum in the world for folks who enjoy vintage technology. If you’ve never been, put it on your list. Henry understood the value in capturing the history of the industrial revolution and the life that went with it. The museum is a testament to the inovation and hard work that made the US a world leader. We could sure use Henry today.
Absolutely!!
I live 10 min away 😊
I mean it’s great to see all the useless ebay items they bought but do you really want to promote this socialist and communist agenda they have ? I don’t. I know the way you are talking you are probably just a representative for the company that’s quite clear.
@@annabean1150 What are you talking about?
@@annabean1150 what is your point
Excellent video. Many thanks for taking us along on your journey.
Those old machines are works of art created by artisans for artisans. How in the world were they able to measure the tolerances with such precision back then ? I had read that Henry Ford bought that Swedish gauge block company to make sure FMC never would run out of such a valuable resource.
Great video guys, many thanks for sharing
Omg you guys were in my hometown , I would have loved to meet you guys and share some knowledge with you , i am retired toolmaker from General Motors , you guys should have gone on a tour of the Ford rouge plant it starts right there at the museum !! I retired in 2006 after 30 years, so I am familiar with all the tooling !!
Excellent video of the highlights. Thanks.
Just thinking of the pattern makers of those huge cast machines. Amazing men back then making and using these machines.
Exactly what made this county a world power, setting the standard for manufacturing.
Good job Adam! Thanks to you and Abby for sharing your experience. Now that I've seen your preview, I would like to take a couple of days to visit The Henry Ford Museum, myself.
I live about 40 minutes from "The Henry Ford". We have been there many times and have seen most of what you showed in you video, but never had so much appreciation of what we were seeing as you and Abby had. You did a great job of pointing out the wonders of that place. It truly is a place one can spend days in and still not see it all. Great video...!! Thanks. Hope you can come back again. If you do you are welcome to come and stay at our place. We have plenty of room for you RV. Then you could spend several days at "The Henry Ford". 😆
It's pronounced Skin-neck-teddy. Accent on the middle syllable. Greetings from a former upstate New Yorker! Keep up the great videos.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful. Thanks!
I’ve been to The Henry Ford twice. It’s a very good museum. I think it was better the second time because I wasn’t so overwhelmed. And the Greenfield Village is also very cool
Thank you for the tour. That was awesome
Thank you for the tour, incredible machinery...👍
Great video Adam, back when made in America meant something,
Henry Ford was big on collecting and the preservation of this industrial equipment. I absolutely love the finish on these machines.
Good to know that historical displays of the old machines are housed and cared for for future generations to marvel at. Thanks you two.
I am so glad you were able to enjoy our Henry Ford. I have lived in the Detroit area all my life ( 74 yrs) and have spent many hours there. I hope you were also able to enjoy Greenfield Village as well. Enjoy all your vids, and I’m hoping to see more more stuff in your fantastic new shop. Can’t wait to see some stuff turned out on your super new CNC toys. If only I were rich ore at least earning money so I could have cool stuff like that.
Some time you should look up what they went thru to get that big locomotive in there. It would have been easier to just park the train outside and build a new building around it!
Thanks again, Craig
It really is one of the best museums I have ever been too.
This museum reflect the intelligence and stoicism of a laborious people living in freedom and guaranteed for "We The People". America the beautiful.
Adam, thank you so much for taking us on this tour. It was very much enjoyed !!
Awesome. Thanks for this
You were about 20 minutes from my house. It used to be called Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Both have so many treasures from the past. You really would have really liked the locomotive machine shop in the Village.
Abby looks like she was skipping around the displays. Best wife ever.
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing .
I love your wife's enthusiasm for your work and hobbies and her knowledge of these machines even though she doesn't do any of that herself. Taking an interest in each other's hobbies etc... makes for a great marriage!
Have been there 3 times in my life, as a kid, and a 30-something, and then a 50-something. Always fantastic.
Stunning
A fantastic trip through a fantastic place. Thank you Adam and Abbey !
I just marked this up on places to visit!! Very cool.
It would take days to see the entire place.
I need to go see that. I've been fortunate to be around many steam locomotives. Ridden on the Norfolk and Western 1218. Looking forward to seeing the UP Big Boy soon.
Well that museum just made the bucket list and a high placing at that. Thanks for bringing us along Adam.
That was awesome! Thank you!
This was very cool, thanks for taking the time to film and narrate it. I’m always impressed by the high quality and pride that American museums display.
very interesting!! thanks for sharing!
Absolutely fascinating!
I'm jealous of you, for getting to experience that museum!
Awesome video. Amazing museum. Great part of American history. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome, thank you for bringing this to us. Now it is on my buck list!
Really glad you got a chance to see this place I went last year and had a blast
Boy that was an amazing place to visit. Designed very well. I’m so glad you guys had a chance to go there and share your experience.
Thanks so much for this !!
Dang, I need to visit that museum!
Very good museum and very nice thank you for your help
Thanks for sharing!
Welcome to Michigan
Great movie, many many thanks for making/sharing. Best wishes!
Awesome thanks for sharing
Thank you so much Adam and Abby, that place is definitely on my bucket list now!
Those Johansson Gage Blocks are so important they deserve their own section in a museum. Some would argue how important it was that Ford bought them out and moved them to the US. But that small act altered what could have been the course of manufacturing in America.
Actually, Ford bought a license from Johansson to produce the gage blocks in the USA. The company was called Dearborn Gage and Carl's son moved here to setup the operation.
My father trained as a gage maker at the Johansson factory in Eskilstuna, Sweden back in the late 1930's and 1940's. Dad and Mom emigrated to the US in 1947.
PS, Johansson didn't invent the Gage Blocks. There were two brothers making them and Johansson was a traveling machine tool salesman. The brothers had limited shop capacity so only produced a few sets a year. Johansson bought them out and started C.E. Johansson Gage to make them in a production line and then added many more products to the line.
Thank you so much for taking us along with you on your trip to this museum. It is a wonderful place. I had great grandparents who were miners that came from England and Scotland to work in the mines in Pennsylvania and Ohio. They helped provide the iron and other metals that were used in the building of these massive pieces of machinery, tools, and products. We need to remember the many miners of this era who gave their lives as they died working in the depths of these mines.
I can't fathom how people were able to make these extraordinary huge machines, 100 years ago.
It's incredible.
Great video.Thank you.
PRECIOSO MUSEO !!!
Thanks for the tour of the museum it was wonderful because of you got to see something I would never have got to see
Great video, thanks for sharing!
One awesome museum, been there 5 or 6 times , just love it👍
It’s hard to find the words to describe that museum. The elegance of the machinery is striking. Thank you for bringing us along!
That is a awesome museum so many new machines you only hear about. Thanks for the great video
awesome place.. as well as greenfield village.. hope you two enjoyed it here.. in michigan
This company is dreadful. To start off they only allow a couple of people in each department to be full time because they want to give as little benefits away as possible. If you were part time you could not work more than part time hours provided and if your manager messed up and schedule you more than they were supposed then sorry you have to take a month off or in my coworkers case he had to take off from September to the rest of the year. I was a security guard here and everyone who works here is a liberal and hates republicans (aka why I quit) they openly spoke about how great communism and socialism is. They also cried about not enough gun control and how the republican party is the reason they have college debt. they all get paid $12/hr or less (which they had to fight to raise that wage from $10/hr because no one wanted to even APPLY WITH LESS THAN MCDONALDS PAYS THEIR EMPLOYEES) unless they were in HR department or Accounting. They say this is a non-profit organization but the CEO of the company gets the biggest check and most of the bonus money...
Most of the "artifacts" are actually just fake garbage bought online or even rented.
Also there is NO AC in the village so that’s why all the “presenters” get heat stroke. It was mid may and it was our first 80 degree day and we had a heat stroke in an hour of the day starting. They DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR EMPLOYEES!
Plus when I called to quit without notice because they told me “Ummmm you can’t do that you HAVE TO put your 2 weeks notice in!” Like um no I don’t. I don’t work for you anymore and this is a free country sorry to break it to you.
Truly a amazing place! It takes machine's to make better and better machine's!
Awwe, that was wonderful to see.
I'd need a week to see all that.
That was jaw dropping of all that museum contained, fantastic. Pity the UK hasn't anything like this.👍
That was really great. I want to make the trip to that museum after seeing your video. Thanks!
you need to come back and see Greenfield Village, also if possible, tour any of the plants, in the past they have had tours of the steel mill, engine assembly and truck assembly. Somewhere in the museum is the first robot that was installed in a production facility. A bus tour of the Rouge facility is also a fascinating experience.
Was TDY in Detroit last September and visited the HFM for the first time. I so agree that it is a totally fantastic place!
So amazing to see all these old machines. You have to respect our forefathers for what they designed and built to do automated work. A lot of ingenuity went into each of these. The decorations on the machines shows the pride that all the different craftsman put into their creations. Thanks very much for sharing.
Amazing, it has changed a bit since I was there 55 years ago as a 10 year old. Thank you for bringing this to your channel and for brining back all the memories I still have of my family visiting this wonderous museum!
Love this stuff
It is indeed an awesome museum. I went there this summer while visiting family this summer. Great description of the various machines. I love Abby’s enthusiasm for your craft!
This is a wonderful museum for an old iron and steam man like me. I could have spent a week there rather than just a day. Love your videos. Thanks.
I had the pleasure of visiting the Henry Ford Museum on the 90's and was also overwhelmed by the machines and vehicles on display there. It is completely worth a visit and I totally agree with you Abom, it is a two day visit at least! It has grown quite a bit since I was there.
Hey, kickin' around my neck-of-the-woods, a little over an hour from our place! Love the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Those were common field trip destinations for us when we were kids. We used to put coins on the train tracks in the village and collect them after they were flattened out.
PS. That indexing plate on that gear making machine is incredible!.
I Work 1/2 mile from there on Oakwood Blvd.
Live within 3 miles from there.
Been going there all my life.
Happy to see you two came to visit...
That milling machine looks like your cnc flex machine
A sacred homage to America's past, what amazing knowledge and creativity our forefathers had
Adam, Abby, great video of a wonderful and difficult subject to present!! Thank you!
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A Bomb size steam Locomotive in there.
Kind of hard to miss.
Went to the Military Marching songs special on July 4th all played on Brass and Drums.
I'm from Michigan and glad to see the two of you really soaking it in.
Thanks Abby and Adam.