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Gas-Steam Engine, 1916, Used to Generate Electricity at Highland Park Plant
1916
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Ford's Model T mass production system would not have been practical without electricity; by 1919 nine of these Ford-designed hybrid internal combustion/steam engines generated the power needed by the Highland Park plant's assembly lines and associated machinery. By 1926 the engines were rendered obsolete when electricity was fed from the power plant at Ford's River Rouge plant ten miles away.
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- Title: Gas-Steam Engine, 1916, Used to Generate Electricity at Highland Park Plant
- Date Created: 1916
- Location: United States, Michigan, Highland Park
- Subject Keywords: Ford Motor Company. Highland Park Plant, Automobile industry, Electric power production, Ford automobile, Manufacturing, Engines (Power producing equipment), Gas engines, Generators, Steam engines
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=167313
- Object Name: Engine (Power producing equipment)
- Object ID: 30.1200.1
- Image ID: THF18671
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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