A Walk Through the Henry Ford Museum ("The Henry Ford"), Part 1

This video is Part 1 of my two-part video visit to the famous Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan (near Detroit). This kicks off my week-long "Michigan & Ohio Museum Odyssey".
I follow this museum's Part 1 & Part 2 with a two-part visit to adjoining Greenfield Village complex, before heading to Ohio for the other museums.

[@technicholls6022]

This is one of my favorite museums. As a former Detroiter, who has moved south this brings back an awful lot of memories. I wish you would have focused in on some of the signs that explained the displays. You wouldn’t have to stay on them long as we can, pause and read. But one of my favorite things about museums is reading the descriptions for the different displays. But very nice work. Thank you very much.

[@rusty383]

A place I have always wanted to visit. Henry Ford has always been of my Human Heroes. I hope he made it to Heven.

[@markdiehl1963]

Great tour. Thank you

[@Blueseas4Joe]

I am stuck at home with covid. You are a blessing occupying my time. Very well done and narrated.😊

[@CincyMike]

It's nice to see you back and at it!! Thanks!!!

[@haydensommers420]

Thank you for this detailed tour of this museum.

[@josephagnello9335]

It is always a pleasure to hear and see your videos . I saw your Smithsonian video ; EXCELLENT. Your train travel adventures are also wonderful.You have a good eye for details. Furthermore, your voice is deep, soothing ; your diction clear. I agree wholeheartedly. . . " the dumbing down" of The HENRY Ford Museum and other venues. Thank you for your historical videos and intelligent comments that accompany them.

[@MS3DALE]

Great walk through and video, thank you for posting!!

[@cynthiafeagin5185]

Enjoy your tour of the different museums.you explain things very well.

[@danmathers141]

Thank you for coming to the Detroit area.

[@JackW106]

Good to see you out and about

[@bigd-1-channel514]

great video. I actually saw the Wiener Mobile driving on public roads way back when.

[@Smith53823]

I'm really glad I stumbled onto this video I really enjoy watching your videos and I used to really enjoy the Henry Ford museum I have been there a few times but not lately I noticed they have it set up kind of like the Air Force museum in Dayton and also I keep looking for places to sit down and I only seen one so far so I'm wondering what they do about electric wheelchairs

[@cynthiafeagin5185]

This is a great museum

[@jeffreylehn8803]

Nice video thanks for sharing .

[@RD2564]

Love the story about taking the senior discount. Great to see all the projects and travel that you do with your time. Ford museum is very impressive but not sure I'll get to it as the Detroit metro area isn't on the holiday hit list for me in Vancouver BC even though I actually lived in Windsor, ON for half a year when I was 6 years old in 1970.

[@G-Jet92]

The Biplane that’s at 10:20 is a 1915 Laird B-4 Biplane, built by Matthew Laird

[@justinvernal]

Very nice job👍🇺🇸

[@thenewBH]

At 35:23, front machine is a planer, just behind that is a shaper. Both do the same work, generating planar surfaces with a single point cutter. The planer moves the worktable back and forth, the shaper moves the cutter itself back and forth. In the 80s or 90s, a huge amount of the museum's artifacts were auctioned off. I've had the pleasure of seeing a nice chunk of the steam power collection in private hands in new england.

[@youtuuba]

ThenewBH, which place in New England? I know there is a museum of vintage machine tools in Vermont, forget the name and the town. ... I have also noticed things that seem to have disappeared from the HF museum.....for example, they used to have a nice collection of vintage bicycles, and another of vintage musical instruments, and I saw almost none of those on this visit.

[@thenewBH]

@@youtuuba It wasnt a museum, although this gentleman's private collection covered about 100k sq. ft. of building in his backyard. The museum you're referring to is the American Precision Museum, and said gentleman also has a large chunk of the collection they werent able to store anymore.

[@robertrowland5813]

@@youtuuba I believe that THF(as do other museums) rotates artifacts. That's why one doesn't always see the same artifact on every visit.

[@blueboats7530]

The unidentified aircraft at 10:20 is additionally mysterious for its odd looking engine with 6 cylinders in apparent radial format which is not possible as a radial. A closer look shows there's some offset in the cylinders placement, as if its three horizontally opposed 2 cylinder banks.

[@rusty383]

You would Love the Flying Circus in Opel Virginia. The Beautiful Stearman Planes you can actually fly in. Every Saturday in the spring. Also hot air balloons. Wing Walkers. Under Plane trapeze. From ground to plane sky hooking and more.

[@cynthiafeagin5185]

Very CV interesting.always been a fan of Henry Ford.i drive a Ford.

[@a10warthog64]

This was on my birthday :D

[@jamesburns2232]

The 1920 Dayton Wright RB-1 was built out of Balsa wood and covered with wood and varnished linen. Here, 7 years before Charles Lindberg's Ryan aircraft, there was no forward visibility for the pilot, only side windows to look out of. If you wanted to see the runway from the side window, you would have to forward slip the aircraft for landing. 🙃

[@blueboats7530]

Thanks for this, I had no idea, I would have assumed the Henry Ford Museum would have just been a bunch of old cars

[@SteveH-gt3wz]

That machine at 35:30 is a metal planer, Keith Rucker of VintageMachinery.org is restoring one like that from the New Haven Mfg. Co. Keith also has a you tube channel where you can watch him restore the metal planer. Enjoying your video... Thank you...

[@clffliese26]

I've got 2 questions, 17 minutes in. The Trimotor: Was that the actual plane Admiral Byrd flew over the South Pole? The replica of the Wright Flyer: Is that the one that they tried to fly at Kitty Hawk on the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight? I might have more questions, later.

[@youtuuba]

Cliff Liese.....please don't ask the questions here.....neither I nor (most other) KZbinrs will have reliable answers; as the author of this video, I only know the details as I read them off the signs at the museum. If you still need such answers, you could call the museum or try contacting the curator staff through the museum website.

[@clffliese26]

@@youtuuba In other words, don't ask questions you don't have the answers to.😂

[@youtuuba]

@@clffliese26 , please don't paraphrase what I said. I wrote that the kind of specific questions you were asking are unlikely to be known by museum visitors (and such information is often not even on the signage in the museums), so you are better off inquiring from authoritative sources rather than soliciting probable unreliable answers from random people on KZbin. That is, if you care about getting real, reliable answers.

[@clffliese26]

@@youtuuba I meant that as a joke, hence the laughing emoji.

[@drtidrow]

1:16:15 Yes they did, at least before all the COVID stuff happened. Hopefully they'll start that up again later in the year.

[@gregorystafford1411]

Many Thanks for your effort & presence of Spirit to Provide this Entertainment which would not be available if it were not for People like you without having to shell out Money to View either in reality or Online (Eventually?) the Way thing's look like they may turn into to make 'Heritage Sites & Galleries etc' remain Valid?

[@youtuuba]

Gregory Stafford, I read your comment a few times and still don't understand what you wrote. I think it would benefit from some edits; punctuation, etc.

[@dcarder3336]

Good tour and narration. But for no more ppl than I see, that is the noisiest place I've ever seen! Don't they have anything to absorb sound???

[@hamshackleton]

13.00- human-carrying balsa aeroplane - not the only one, - the DeHavilland Mosquito (WW2) was a balsa aircraft!

[@youtuuba]

hamshackleton, the Mosquito was not entirely made of balsa as I recall.

[@hamshackleton]

@@youtuuba - not 100% there was some spruce in it, for load-bearing spars, etc, and of course the Merlins, they aren't balsa either! :-)

[@cynthiafeagin5185]

Did Henry Ford acquire a lot of these engines during his lifetime

[@drunkcanadian2558]

I dont believe so

[@jeffreylehn8803]

Henry Ford did acquire a lot of steam engines over the years , sad to say a lot of them were sold at auction in 1985

[@rusty383]

Get the USA Gold Pass too.

[@GloveSlapnz]

Come for the museum walk throughs, stay for the stand-offish replies in the comment sections.

[@danmathers141]

There have been reprodutions of the Ford Tri- motor. This may be an original.

[@youtuuba]

Dan Mathers, there is no reason to believe that the Tri-Motor on display is a reproduction.

[@breakfastsurreal5650]

@@youtuuba the Tri-Motor shim sham is the oldest trick in the book, everyone knows that..

[@youtuuba]

@@breakfastsurreal5650 , a foolish comment.

[@wayned1807]

Your videos of museums are interesting with great commentary, but I'm afraid they are just too difficult to watch for me. Too bad this is one museum that I would like to see. I don't know if it's because of the resolution or out of focus because of the low light conditions. A steadycam would help I think. Either you're going too fast and the camera is having a hard time focusing or a better camera is needed. You're not alone. Every video I've ever seen on KZbin that's taken in a museum sucks for many reasons. My biggest pet peeve is that they rarely show the display information of what we are being shown and talked about. We can always freeze the video and read it so it doesn't have to take up much time on the video.

[@youtuuba]

Wayne D, I appreciate your comment, but it seems inconsistent with itself and also with my goals. First, I take these Walk-Through videos as a way of showing other people what to expect from a museum before they might decide to go there. I take these on my own vacations, so I only allocate the time I have in my itinerary, and in fact in most museums that "walk through" part does not represent my entire visit; I usually edit out the time where I stop walking to read signs, inspect things closer, etc. I certainly do not want my walk-through videos to be records of all that went on during my entire museum visit! As for steadi-cam setups, you won't see much of that for any museum, from anyone. The main reason for that is that museums almost always prohibit 'professional' photography or videography, but they are OK with handheld cameras. The reasons for this should be obvious, not least of which is their desire to avoid large, fancy, distracting set-ups from distracting other visitors or presenting safety or logistical issues for other visitors. They certainly don't allow supplemental lighting....sometimes I use my smart phone's flashlight to partially illuminate a darker area, but mostly I just increase brightness using my editing software. Handheld digital cameras and camcorders are not very good at maintaining focus with complex, constantly moving subjects. The kinds of cameras that CAN to that well are larger, more professional devices, and they require supplemental lighting to get good results. So, ain't gonna happen. As for your 'peeve' about my videos not showing display information, that is a big part of the point about walk-through videos! They would be VERY long if all of that were included, and very few people want to watch all of that when they just want an idea of what the museum is like.

[@wayned1807]

@@youtuuba Appreciate the reply. As for not showing display information because it make the video too long. I believe I address that in my comment about the viewer freezing videos and reading them. A good sharp image of the information is all that is needed, even if is only for a few seconds. I understand what you are doing by giving us quick walk thru's so we can get an idea of what to expect. And that's great and we do appreciate what you're doing. Problem is many of us will never make it to these places in our life time for various reasons. It's not just your videos, it's almost all videos of museums people post here. I love history so the more museums the better but it's hard to learn of the past from just pictures if you're not familiar with the subject you're looking at.

[@danielsweeney6742]

Since the Henry Ford is not owned or funded by Ford Motors all visitors are WELCOME!

[@youtuuba]

Daniel Sweeney, why did you write this comment? Did somebody suggest that anyone might be unwelcome at this museum?

[@danielsweeney6742]

No due to Covid 19 The Henry Ford is hurting for funds.

[@cynthiafeagin5185]

They taking tab off the market.

[@davidgriffin14]

Can you still drink that canned water?

[@garymittelstadt7821]

So the guy was just making facts up to suit his purpose and make himself look smart? Was he a member of the media?

[@youtuuba]

Gary Mittelstadt, we don't have any idea who you mean by "the guy", but you insinuate that he is trying to make himself "look smart". You know what does NOT look smart? You leaving this comment without bothering to let anyone know who you are talking about.

[@Kevin-ix4qz]

Always the screaming/crying kid at a museum.... Parents please! Just get a babysitter