The Henry Ford, Made in America

[@strykerjones8842]

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.

[@scottpecora371]

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.

[@barrytarakoff3204]

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.

[@jackpatteeuw9244]

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.

[@patrickirish9427]

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.

[@lowcashranch1412]

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.

[@oldpup2182]

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.

[@cschwad559]

I met a couple machinists who retired from GM. I could have stood there for a month and listened to their stories!

[@DrWeird]

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.

[@eagle1333]

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.

[@pilgrimm23]

absolutely beautiful Adam thanks.

[@alclifford3291]

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.

[@jackpatteeuw9244]

I would have joined you !

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

Good to know that historical displays of the old machines are housed and cared for for future generations to marvel at. Thanks you two.

[@manbearchuck6644]

Been there three or four times, the displays are constantly changing, such an amazing place!

[@rontyrie2623]

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.

[@Jlee-zd1ch]

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…

[@brianhostak3961]

Adam, thank you so much for taking us on this tour. It was very much enjoyed !!

[@jameshodgins1937]

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.

[@swedishpsychopath8795]

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.

[@davidcockerman266]

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.

[@williamshorter559]

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.

[@transmaster]

Henry Ford was big on collecting and the preservation of this industrial equipment. I absolutely love the finish on these machines.

[@tmackinator]

Exactly what made this county a world power, setting the standard for manufacturing.

[@veteran011]

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.

[@joshschutte7739]

Just thinking of the pattern makers of those huge cast machines. Amazing men back then making and using these machines.

[@jimdean7335]

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.

[@BattlestarCanada]

Absolutely!!

[@hoodhomesgardens]

I live 10 min away 😊

[@annabean1150]

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.

[@strykerjones8842]

@@annabean1150 What are you talking about?

[@jimdean7335]

@@annabean1150 what is your point

[@ka9dgx]

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.

[@markgrant8771]

the british industrial revolution was already well underway by the time maudsley built his lathes

[@ka9dgx]

@@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.

[@Goman1244]

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.

[@harmlesscreationsofthegree1248]

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.

[@Utahdropout]

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". 😆

[@MattLitkeRacing]

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

[@tommybewick]

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!

[@helicopterjohns]

Excellent video. Many thanks for taking us along on your journey.

[@georgedennison3338]

~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.

[@gdxd7956]

I can't fathom how people were able to make these extraordinary huge machines, 100 years ago. It's incredible.

[@patrickcolahan7499]

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.

[@Carlos-oz5dw]

This museum reflect the intelligence and stoicism of a laborious people living in freedom and guaranteed for "We The People". America the beautiful.

[@clarenceburton9654]

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 !!

[@cgswss]

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

[@richardmorton1310]

Have been there 3 times in my life, as a kid, and a 30-something, and then a 50-something. Always fantastic.

[@BWTIII]

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.

[@ruperthartop7202]

Great video guys, many thanks for sharing

[@bcbloc02]

It really is one of the best museums I have ever been too.

[@werkzeugmann6224]

A sacred homage to America's past, what amazing knowledge and creativity our forefathers had

[@slickit86]

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.

[@dennislarsson1723]

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.

[@windomwoodwork5418]

Well that museum just made the bucket list and a high placing at that. Thanks for bringing us along Adam.

[@bmc5108]

It’s hard to find the words to describe that museum. The elegance of the machinery is striking. Thank you for bringing us along!

[@williegillie5712]

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.

[@tonyn3123]

Excellent video of the highlights. Thanks.

[@peterouellette3874]

Thank you for the tour. That was awesome

[@rik4010]

Thank you for the tour, incredible machinery...👍

[@dominicwroblewski5832]

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.

[@louisspataro278]

It's pronounced Skin-neck-teddy. Accent on the middle syllable. Greetings from a former upstate New Yorker! Keep up the great videos.

[@truckdrivinmilanr]

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.

[@jamesburns0657]

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!

[@98grand5point9]

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.

[@russelljohnson6243]

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.

[@pauliossi2674]

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.

[@kentuckytrapper780]

Great video Adam, back when made in America meant something,

[@shadetreemechanicracing22]

Abby looks like she was skipping around the displays. Best wife ever.

[@kentking8759]

Really glad you got a chance to see this place I went last year and had a blast

[@robertconklin3322]

Was TDY in Detroit last September and visited the HFM for the first time. I so agree that it is a totally fantastic place!

[@tfamecanique3949]

Very good museum and very nice thank you for your help

[@campbellmorrison8540]

Wow that is some museum. I have never been to the US but one day,,,, there are so many places I would love to see and this is one of them. Thank you for taking the time to video your visit.

[@ronnieferguson5706]

Thanks for the tour of the museum it was wonderful because of you got to see something I would never have got to see

[@andrewham5312]

That was jaw dropping of all that museum contained, fantastic. Pity the UK hasn't anything like this.👍

[@markbrown-us4xe]

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.

[@mikemcdonnell1395]

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!

[@tonyb3307]

I just marked this up on places to visit!! Very cool.

[@hoodhomesgardens]

It would take days to see the entire place.

[@alannicholls5008]

I absolutely love this place. I grew up coming here, and matter how many times I went, you always find something new. Now that I live in Florida, seeing this brought back some memories! Greenfield Village around Christmas time is the best. You can even go on rides in a model T

[@jamesburba1995]

A fantastic trip through a fantastic place. Thank you Adam and Abbey !

[@steamfan7147]

Thank you so much Adam and Abby, that place is definitely on my bucket list now!

[@mrijohn251]

Historic Milford Pennsylvania is the home of the Lincoln Flag. This is the flag that his head rested on after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford's Theater in Washington DC on April 14, 1865. Thank you for sharing the Lincoln share with us.

[@stevepeuster2857]

Absolutely fascinating! I'm jealous of you, for getting to experience that museum!

[@joshmiville6932]

That is a awesome museum so many new machines you only hear about. Thanks for the great video

[@RyanKirk99]

That was really great. I want to make the trip to that museum after seeing your video. Thanks!

[@daleclark6263]

Awesome tour Adam! Every time I see one of these I'm reminded how much in love I am with Abby. 🙂You are a lucky man indeed to have her by your side - seeing her excited by this stuff as well makes me smile!

[@danddietz]

Dang, I need to visit that museum!

[@cyclebuster]

I went to there twice when i was real young. That huge engine had a walkway through it, and everything was pristine. I went again in the late 80s and every gauge and glass was busted out of it. And the last time i went there you couldn't get near it. FWIW, My Walcott 16x64 was sold new to Henry Ford. He soon after bought Walcott.

[@jobos98]

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...

[@rlhanks]

Glad to see you could make it out. Grew up in that neighborhood. My middle school and high school (Edsel Ford High School) is right down the street from there, while my parents still live in the connecting neighborhood. Completely amazing at how much nostalgia that one place has. Christmas activities that they have in the outside village is a great time to partake in. Enjoy the memories of the place.

[@eamonmcdonnell8275]

Great movie, many many thanks for making/sharing. Best wishes!

[@lakemi4665]

Henry built the museum in 1927 my school field trips in the 60s were the best

[@justinbevier8231]

I graduated from cedar springs in 05, I remember my 5th grade field trip there. I need to go back.

[@russnixon6020]

Adam, the gun barrel rifling machine pulls a broach through the drilled barrel. The broach is rotated as it is pulled through by a cam and follower in the frame on the barrel’s axis. Instead of a broach, some rifling machines used a single cutter, like a shaper tool, drawn through in a spiral and then indexed to cut the next groove. There used to be a gun shop with a small museum in the Mount Dora / Eustis area north of Lake Apopka. The museum had an early, hand powered rifling bench. I was last there over twenty-five years ago so I can’t say if it still exists. The gunsmith’s shop at Colonial Williamsburg forges barrels on a mandrel to make hex or octagonal rifling.

[@ta420nk5]

awesome place.. as well as greenfield village.. hope you two enjoyed it here.. in michigan

[@annabean1150]

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.

[@jamesrobinson1022]

I haven't been there since I was in 5th grade or 25 years ago and it's definitely the grand daddy of museums especially for American history.

[@capriracer351]

We went to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village on vacation when I was still a kid, about 1981/1982. We spent 2 days there and still didn't get through it all. Would like to go back again some time in the future.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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.

[@ciceroskip1]

Wow that is a lot of machinery. I don't remember see that the last time I was there about 5 yrs ago. I am also glad that they fixed the glass on the "Kennedy Lincoln", The glass was all clouded over and they were not sure if they were going to change the glass because they wanted to keep it original. I agree that you need 2 days to see the Museum alone. Great video.

[@j1952d]

I love looking at these old machines. It's worth emphasising the importance of the gauge blocks. Without them, for checking other inspection equipment, it wouldn't have been possible to make guns, sewing machines ... and automobiles with interchangeable parts, and so the production line method of assembly wouldn't have been possible (or would've been much more difficult to implement).

[@donaldnaymon3270]

Awesome video. Amazing museum. Great part of American history. Thank you for sharing.

[@lucascady4992]

Truly a amazing place! It takes machine's to make better and better machine's!

[@chrismadaj8751]

I was there 40 years ago when I was 18 and have pictures of a lot of the stuff you're showing us the one thing that stuck in my head was the locomotives 🚂 at the end of your videos just incredibly awesome mind-blowing stuff the shear massive size and engineering of them what people don't understand that all the machinery in this building build our country and gave us freedom to win world Wars GODSPEED

[@victorsavich1872]

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[@raymondwilson6696]

Every time I am in Detroit I make it a point to go back. Many trips I extend my stay just to have more time there. Much like Henry I have a life long love affair with all things mechanical. The Henry Ford is a showcase of that love affair. Thank you for sharing it with your viewers. Many great memories there. I’m certain you walked away wishing for more time. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@kenbarnes8958]

FINALLY - took my family from Atlanta up to see the museum 50 years ago and had worse luck than you had - IT WAS CLOSED TOO - but Greenfield was open - not the same thing

[@jl3415]

That milling machine looks like your cnc flex machine

[@uberintj]

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!.

[@DolezalPetr]

This is so lovely, I wish I was born in that era

[@perpetualmotion1]

I live about 2 1/2 hours from the Henry Ford, we have a yearly membership. It's's just a bummer you couldn't come in the summer when the village is open, they have an awesome round house service shop for the engines, the Armington & Sims line shaft machine shop, and Edison's machine shop among other things. I absolutely love the entire place 😁

[@perpetualmotion1]

Something that amazes me is that Ford set this all up in 1929, we think old machinery is cool and worth preserving now, but in 1929 this was just obsolete machinery as far as most people were concerned, he was an amazing visionary.