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41) The 24 hour war
Publisher
Chassy Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the personalities and events surrounding the rivalry between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari, that began in 1963 and continued throughout the 1960s, most notably on the stage of the 24-hour race at Le Mans.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
The fascinating story of two American giants--Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American...
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 216 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. In 1916 Henry Ford proclaimed that "history is more or less bunk"-at least its focus on politicians and military heroes was bunk. Thirteen years later, he sought to correct this error by opening the Greenfield Village museum, which celebrated the history of farmers and inventors. The village eventually included a replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, the Wright brothers'...
47) Henry Ford
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century. Ford's Model T automobile and his five-dollar-a-day wage ushered in the modern world, earning Ford reverence from millions of Americans. Yet many of the changes he wrought deeply troubled the car maker. In frustration, he battled his workers and bullied those who looked up to him, including his only son.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T offers insight into his mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.
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