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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 23
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 23

by Mark Frauenfelder
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 49m
English
Make: Community
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Photograph by Michelle Andonian, from the collections of The Henry Ford

58 Bagley Ave.

The workshop where Henry Ford made his first car.

By Marc Greuther

A workspace, tools, a project or two — hardly an unfamiliar scenario for readers of MAKE, except that this is Henry Ford’s workshop, his first car, and on the bench, his first engine.

But not exactly. In fact, the engine and car, even the workshop itself, are reproductions.

The original space, a small brick outbuilding behind Ford’s modest house on Detroit’s Bagley Avenue, was intended to store coal and wood. Ford established a workshop there and equipped it with a small lathe, drill press, and ...

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