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Lifelong Friends and Collaborators: Ford and Edison

Lifelong Friends and Collaborators: Ford and Edison

In 1893, Henry Ford was made chief engineer at Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant in Detroit. Charged with keeping the city’s electricity flowing, Ford was on call 24 hours a day, with no regular working hours. When he wasn’t working, he could tinker away at his real goal of building a gasoline-powered vehicle. He completed(…)