I've been there many, many years ago but I'd like to go again.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/5/2014 9:59 PM, Rand E wrote:
> It's the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
> It's a fantastic place to visit.
> I grew up in the area and many of us took our dates there during and
> even after our high school days.
> The museum warrants a couple of days to give it it's due, the village
> another day by itself.
> Rand E
> ( I would suppose that there could also be an Edison museum in the
> area, but I have not heard of it)
>
>
> On 4/5/2014 9:21 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>> Thanks, Chuck and Joel. I highly recommend the place (And I'm told that
>> the Edison museum that Ford set up in Michigan is even better). I felt
>> like a kid in a candy store. All that late 19th-century stuff that so
>> transformed the world.
>>
>> --Peter
>>
>> > Thanks for the tour. I enjoyed it. We were there about 20 years ago
>> and had planned to go again with friends last month but one of the
>> friends took ill and the trip never came off. Maybe next year.
>> >
>> > Chuck Norcutt
>> >
>> >
>> > On 4/4/2014 1:11 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
>> > One of the highlights of my recent vacation was a visit to Thomas
>> > Edison's winter home and museum in Ft. Meyers, FL. Most of what I took
>> > there was "record shots"--pun intended, as there were a lot of old
>> > phonographs in evidence :-) No artistic pretention and minimum
>> > post-processing, but some fun stuff. If you'd like to see them, they are
>> > here:
>> >
>> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/EdisonFtMeyers/>
>> >
>> > In addition to phonographs, there's shots of the house, the grounds, and
>> > in the museum, all sorts of fun old stuff like an X-ray machine and
>> > tubes, DC generators from the late 19th century, motion picture
>> > equipment, and the lab where he and his associates attempted to find a
>> > domestic plant source of latex from which to make rubber.
>> >
>> > --Peter
>>
>>
>
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