With the RV parked in the Wayne County Fairgrounds RV park, we spent a day each at Henry Ford Museum and the adjacent Greenfield Village. The museum had a wide variety of collections, including early airplanes, farm equipment, locomotives and cars, an unusual prefab home developed after 1945 to house retuning service men at the end of WWII, and even clocks.
Although the car display was closed for renovations, several presidential limousines (all Lincolns) were on display, including this 1938 model used by FDR and Harry Truman.
This is the car in which President Kennedy was shot.
I owned vehicles similar to these – a VW Camper and a 1940 Ford 2 dr., similar to this 1939 or 1940 Ford deluxe.
This huge steam farm tractor was used mainly as a stationary engine to power threshing machines and perhaps other large equipment. It was self-powered to move from farm to farm, and the display added that they were also was used for plowing.
This gigantic steam engine was used to power an entire factory in the late 1800s.
Flywheel from another large steam engine, with governor at upper right. When the speed of the engine, which also rotated the balls, increased, centrifugal force caused them to take a wider arc which slowed the steam engine RPM.
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