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2 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 MAGAZINE JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 Contents DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Our Mission 4 Behind the Scenes 5 18 Letter from the President 6 GIMME SHELTER 90th Anniversary 8 The man who coined the Off the Shelf 10 term “Spaceship Earth” A Look Back 80 and his influence on utopian outposts of the radical ’60s and ’70s INNOVATION 28 GENERATION 13 SUITS FOR THE STARS The homespun origin INSIDE story of an astronaut’s THE modern marvel of a HENRY moon uniform FORD 38 Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation 50 SET IN CYBERSPACE Greenfield Village 52 A media artist and a Ford Rouge Factory Tour 54 punk rocker harness Acquisitions + Collections 56 the early internet Membership Spotlight 58 to experiment with 2019 Events 60 newfound freedoms in Connect 3 64 terms of identity, gender, poetry and prose STAY, EXPLORE + SAVOR 65

ON THE COVER The human body and its many limitations were studied exhaustively as NASA developed one of its most iconic design systems to date — the spacesuit. NASA IMAGE 63-APOLLO-106, RECORD GROUP 255-GC, STILL PHOTO COLLECTION, COURTESY OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES AT COLLEGE PARK, COLLEGE PARK, MD.

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TO MAKE A DONATION OR A LEGACY GIFT J. Spencer Medford Gain perspective. Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer 313.982.6016 [email protected] Get inspired. Jeff Dunlap Senior Director of Chairman of Principal Gifts the Board 313.982.6167 Make history. S. Evan Weiner [email protected] Vice Chairman Sherri Howes THE HENRY FORD: A NATIONAL TREASURE AND CULTURAL RESOURCE Gerard M. Anderson Senior Director of Institutional Advancement Vice Chairman The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, is an internationally recognized cultural 313.982.6028 Sheila Ford Hamp destination that brings the past forward by immersing more than 1.8 million [email protected] President and visitors a year in the stories of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation that SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION Secretary helped shape America. Patricia E. Mooradian Anna Cronin Senior Manager of A force for sparking curiosity and inspiring tomorrow’s innovators, Treasurer Institutional Advancement inventors and entrepreneurs, The Henry Ford fosters learning from Lisa A. Payne 313.982.6119 hands-on encounters with authentic artifacts. Through its 26 million Board of Trustees [email protected] artifacts, unique venues and resources — Henry Ford Museum of Lynn Ford Alandt MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION American Innovation™, Greenfield Village®, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, Paul R. Dimond The Henry Ford Benson Ford Research Center® and Henry Ford Academy®, as well as Edsel B. Ford II Contact Center online at thf.org and through the TV programs The Henry Ford’s Innovation Henry Ford III 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily William Clay Ford, Jr. 313.982.6001 Nation and Did I Mention Invention? — The Henry Ford helps all individuals William Clay Ford III to unlock their potential and help shape a better future. George F. Francis III GENERAL INQUIRIES AND The Henry Ford leads the Invention Convention Worldwide community Ralph J. Gerson GROUP RESERVATIONS and works to make STEM + Invention + Entrepreneurship (STEMIE) learning Eliza Kontulis Getz The Henry Ford accessible to educators and students worldwide. As part of our leadership Christopher F. Hamp Contact Center Steven K. Hamp 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily in invention education, The Henry Ford powers events like the Invention John W. Ingle III 313.982.6001 Convention U.S. Nationals, curriculum and professional development. Elizabeth Ford Kontulis RESEARCH INQUIRIES For more information, please visit thf.org. Richard A. Manoogian Hendrik Meijer 313.982.6020 Bruce Meyer research.center@thehenry Mark L. Reuss ford.org Hau Thai-Tang SUBSCRIPTION Alessandro F. Uzielli INFORMATION Inside every person is the Amb. Ronald N. Weiser The Henry Ford Contact Center potential to change the world. The Henry Ford Magazine 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily The Henry Ford is building a platform using its Archive of American is published twice a year 313.982.6001 or visit by The Henry Ford, 20900 thf.org/contactus Innovation to unlock the most powerful resource on earth: the next Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, generation. Help us grow the talent pipeline of tomorrow’s innovators, MI 48124. Copyright 2019. Subscription to this inventors and entrepreneurs at thf.org/support. All rights reserved. magazine is just one of Reproduction in whole the many benefits of being The Henry Ford is an independent nonprofit organization. We depend on ticket or in part without written a member. Magazine-only purchases, income from our stores and restaurants, and tax-deductible contributions permission is prohibited. subscriptions not available. and memberships for support. To learn how your generosity can help take it forward, visit thf.org/support. DESIGN, PRODUCTION AND EDITORIAL SERVICES

313.974.6501 [email protected] Bill Bowen, Creative Director MISSION STATEMENT Julie Friedman, Art Director The Henry Ford provides unique educational experiences based Jennifer LaForce, Editor on authentic objects, stories and lives from America’s traditions of Kathy O’Gorman, Copy Editor ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation. Our purpose is to inspire people to learn from these traditions to help shape a better future.

4 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 thf.org PB Notable Colleagues and Correspondents BEHIND THE SCENES

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU TO PUSH YOUR PERSONAL BOUNDARIES? Our contributors tell us.

ALASTAIR GORDON CLAIRE L. EVANS FEDOR KOSSAKOVSKI JUDE BUFFUM MELISSA MCFEETERS Fear of mediocrity, Being a writer. It’s The thrill of the unknown. So far, the most crucial, My natural curiosity and fear of boredom, fear the ultimate life hack. What does a dried pivotal moments in my active imagination. Both of obsolescence — along In the process of grasshopper taste like? life have happened when make it hard for me to with an overwhelming researching a story, It tastes like sweet, dried I’ve stepped outside “settle.” There is always a lust for discovery, I often find myself bean paste. Well, the of my comfort zone. concept to be discovered, originality and creativity face to face with new thrill isn’t always fun … That’s where new another detail to explore. in its rawest forms. realities and new experiences live and Fedor Kossakovski is a Melissa McFeeters is When I wrote Spaced personalities that force old patterns die. freelance science writer a full-time freelance Out, colleagues, fellow me to re-examine every- and a producer at Miles Jude Buffum is an illustrator and graphic writers, literary agents, thing I take for granted. O’Brien Productions, illustrator and designer designer. She is editors and publishers Claire L. Evans is a writer which makes science from Philadelphia, constantly diving warned me not to go and musician. She is the TV content for the whose clients have headfirst into new there. This only sparked singer and co-author of likes of PBS NewsHour included Sony, BMW, projects in multiple curiosity and made me the pop group YACHT, and PBS’ NOVA. He is Kellogg’s, ESPN and fields and industries, persist in my research the founding editor especially interested in HBO. His work has including magazine and with a deepening passion. of Terraform, VICE the connections between received awards from book publishing design, Alastair Gordon is an magazine’s science- science and art. Graphis, Communication editorial and brand fiction vertical, and the Arts, 3x3 and Print illustration, interactive award-winning critic, Suits for the Stars, curator, cultural historian author of Broad Band: Page 28 magazines, American design and more. She and author. He has The Untold Story of Illustration, AIGA and the lives in Philadelphia with written on architecture the Women Who Made Society of Illustrators. her partner and their dog. the Internet. She is the and environment for Set in Cyberspace, Gimme Shelter, The New York Times for former futures editor Page 38 Page 18 more than 20 years and of Motherboard and has published more than a contributor to the 28 books on the human publications Rhizome, environment, including The Guardian, Quartz, Weekend Utopia, Naked Wired and Aeon. She Airport, Spaced Out, is an adviser to design Unfolded and Wendell students at Art Center Castle: Wandering Forms. College of Design In 2016, he launched and a member of the Poetics of Place, a critical cyberfeminist collective writing program at Deep Lab. She lives in Harvard University’s Los Angeles. Graduate School of Design. Set in Cyberspace, Gimme Shelter, Page 38 Page 18

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For decades, The Henry Ford has been committed to pushing boundaries with its collections, visitor experiences and ground- breaking educational resources.

Today, we are pushing even harder, not only programming around agriculture and social reimagining what a museum can and should transformation. As an urban farmer and social be but working diligently to extend our global justice and equality activist, Parson founded reach with relevant innovation, invention and WTPGA to empower people to contribute to their entrepreneurial learning opportunities. communities through education and positive In 2019, we are celebrating The Henry Ford’s social networks, using gardening and farming 90th anniversary and its unprecedented legacy as vehicles for change. You can learn more of collecting objects and stories based on about Melvin and others who push boundaries significant moments in the history of American and challenge the rules to make our world a innovation. This year, we have also been laser better place on Page 14. Our second resident focused on aggressively and intentionally entrepreneur, who joins us later this summer, leveraging our world-renowned collections will focus on the themes of design and making and stories of innovation to inspire and launch and information and communication. the workforce of tomorrow. This past fall, we Inspiring future innovators, inventors and launched The Innovation Project, a $150 million entrepreneurs is at the very core of our mission comprehensive fundraising campaign, which here at The Henry Ford. Whether it’s through our has already raised more than $95 million. collections, stories, two television shows (The The Innovation Project will enable us to build Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation and Did I Mention digital and experiential learning tools and create Invention?), special exhibitions such as Star Trek: programs and initiatives to advance innovation, Exploring New Worlds or annual programs like invention and entrepreneurship. The goal of the Invention Convention U.S. Nationals and Maker ® campaign is to achieve greater accessibility, Faire Detroit — which is celebrating its 10th year inclusivity and exposure to give every child the in 2019 — all of these contribute to our larger purpose. We want to unlock the most powerful opportunity to reach their greatest potential. resource on earth: the next generation. One example of programmatic efforts within the campaign is the William Davidson Foundation Initiative for Entrepreneurship that launched this spring. This initiative will allow us to develop programming that will provide the next generation of entrepreneurs with hands-on learning opportunities, mentorship and guidance from seasoned entrepreneurs in a variety of fields. Through this initiative, we launched our all-new Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program this year. Melvin Parson, founder of We the People Growers Association (WTPGA) in Ypsilanti, is our first resident entrepreneur and will be on-site regularly at The Henry Ford through mid-July, PATRICIA E. MOORADIAN, conducting workshops and developing new PRESIDENT AND CEO

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6 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 Campaign in Action

The Innovation Project, a $150 million We’ve raised $95 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, to date to help The Henry Ford represents The Henry Ford’s commitment to advance innovation, invention create a pipeline for a diverse workforce in the and entrepreneurial learning new economy and extend inspiration to include for people of all ages and all audiences. Within the scope of the campaign, backgrounds. we are pursuing four key funding priorities: PHOTO BY KMS PHOTOGRAPHY 1. Innovation, invention and entrepreneurial We’ve hosted pioneering learning entrepreneurs in innovative 2. Experiential learning in six connected areas ways. Through the William We’ve made physical of innovation Davidson Foundation Initiative for improvements to our facilities, Entrepreneurship, we welcomed our such as new digital columns in 3. Digital learning tools for today’s and first speaker in our Entrepreneur Henry Ford Museum of American tomorrow’s connected learners Speakers Series, Lauren Bush Innovation (see Page 50). 4. Creating change through the lens of Lauren, a woman dedicated to ending accessible and inclusive learning world hunger, as well as our first We’ve acquired new artifacts Entrepreneur in Residence, Melvin We’ve made so much progress already. to inspire, including one of General Parson, founder of We the People Motors’ first self-driving test Growers Association. Lauren spoke vehicles to operate on public roads dFrom left: Pathways to Success High School students to an impressive crowd in the museum autonomously. The Cruise Automation Ronnie Gary, Theidotis Jones and Anthony Terrell, as well as during a roundtable with 01 (above), donated to The Henry along with Melvin Parson, Lauren Bush Lauren, students earlier this year. Parson will Ford by its Partner in Innovation, student D’K’Len Brann and Pathway High School’s be on-site regularly at The Henry Ford principal Shaenu Micou at the Lauren Bush Lauren GM, represents a milestone for the Youth Roundtable. through mid-July, working with our educational institution since it is the curatorial teams and doing workshops first autonomous car to be added PHOTO BY DOUG COOMBE around the themes of agriculture and to The Henry Ford’s collection. It is social justice. currently on display in the Driving America exhibition in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. For details on specific programs and initiatives comprising The Innovation Project, visit theinnovationproject.org.

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On October 21, 1929, luminaries from 5 around the world gathered at Light’s Golden Jubilee to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the incandescent electric lamp and the dedication of the Edison Institute of Technology. This was the official beginning of The Henry Ford — though Henry Ford had begun gathering its collections 8 4 more than a decade earlier. As we celebrate The Henry Ford’s 90th anniversary in 2019, we’re looking back on a century of collecting. These artifacts are among the most popular in our Digital Collections — your favorites, each of which joined our collection in a different decade. 9 — ELLICE ENGDAHL, MANAGER OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND CONTENT, THE HENRY FORD

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8 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 1 1910s 4 1940s 7 1970s 10 2000s MONKEY BAR FOLDING PORTABLE 1961 LINCOLN ROSA PARKS BUS DIORAMA SPINNING WHEEL CONTINENTAL The Henry Ford While a prisoner USED BY MAHATMA PRESIDENTIAL competed into the at Massachusetts M.K. GANDHI LIMOUSINE USED BY wee hours with other State Prison, Patrick In response to a letter JOHN F. KENNEDY online auction bidders J. Culhane created from Henry Ford, This vehicle was for the Rosa Parks this diorama, using Mahatma Gandhi sent used by Presidents Bus. Our winning bid monkeys to depict this signed spinning Lyndon Johnson, was followed by an the pitfalls that had wheel as a gift in 1941. Richard Nixon, extensive restoration put him and fellow The Indian leader Gerald Ford and of the bus, which is inmates on the path used the spinning Jimmy Carter, but now the pinnacle to incarceration. He wheel as a symbol most famously by artifact in the With sent his work to Henry in the struggle for John F. Kennedy, who Liberty and Justice Ford, known to hire India’s independence was assassinated for All exhibition in ex-convicts. In 1916, and economic self- while riding in it. Henry Ford Museum of out of prison, Culhane sufficiency. Donated to The Henry American Innovation. was hired to work at a Ford by Ford Motor Boston-area Ford plant. Company in 1978. 5 1950s 11 2010s 2 1931 BUGATTI 8 COGNITIVE DRESS, 1920s TYPE 41 ROYALE 1980s DESIGNED BY IBM MENLO PARK CONVERTIBLE FIRESTONE AND MARCHESA, LABORATORY As Curator of FARMHOUSE 2016 In the late 1920s, Transportation Matt Henry Ford would Lights on the Thomas Edison’s Menlo Anderson said, the likely approve of Cognitive Dress, a Park Lab complex was Bugatti Royale “has the inclusion of collaboration between re-created in Greenfield everything going for Firestone Farmhouse IBM and fashion brand Village, incorporating it: beautiful styling, in Greenfield Village Marchesa, use IBM’s original buildings and superb engineering for its connections Watson technology to salvaged materials. and a princely price to rural life and friend respond to emotional tag — not to mention, Harvey Firestone. The content of social as one of only six in house passed from the media. Worn by 3 1930s the world, exceptional Firestone family and supermodel Karolina FIRST TRICOLOR, exclusivity.” Given Firestone Foundation Kurkova at the 2016 FOUR-DIRECTIONAL to The Henry Ford to The Henry Ford in Met Gala, the dress TRAFFIC SIGNAL, by Buick engineer the 1980s, where it is was donated by IBM 1920 Charles Chayne and now the centerpiece the following year, First to incorporate his wife, Esther. of Firestone Farm. representing our an amber “caution” strong collections in light, this signal, 6 9 both tech and design. designed by Detroit 1960s 1990s traffic officer William FIRST FORD MODEL T HENRY FORD’S Potts, was installed PRODUCTION CARD, PRIVATE RAILROAD at Woodward Avenue SEPTEMBER 27, 1908 CAR, FAIR LANE, and Fort Street in In 1964, The Henry Ford 1921 Detroit. Donated in received the historic The personal railcar SHOP Telling America’s Story, A History of 1938 by the Detroit business records of of Henry and Clara The Henry Ford. This new book edition Police Department, Ford Motor Company, Ford was used by the has updated content, including an all-new St. Louis Southwestern chapter that brings The Henry Ford’s history it still blinks away the institution’s forward to the present day. Learn how above the safety single largest archival Railway as a business The Henry Ford continues to evolve, face section of the Driving accession. This card car and by the Chero- new challenges and embrace opportunities. is a record of the first kee Nation as a tourist Available for purchase in late summer in America exhibition in The Henry Ford gifts shops and online at Henry Ford Museum of Ford Model T built. office before ending up thf.org/shopc American Innovation. with Richard and Linda Kughn, who donated it to The Henry Ford. READ A Look Back on Page 80 to discover the first artifact collected by Henry Ford that remains in our collection todayc

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thf.org 9 OFF THE SHELF Recommended Films, Fine Reads and Dot-coms

WHAT ARE California Crazy. American Pop WE READING + Architecture Kristen Gallerneaux, The Henry Ford’s curator of communications and information WATCHING? technology, looks back at her first glance at Jim Heimann’s ode to architectural oddities.

I first encountered California Crazy in a library a decade ago. My eyes locked onto the spine of Jim Heimann’s book, and there was no turning back. On the cover, there was a hamburger stand shaped like a giant grimacing bulldog. Depictions of 1920s Los Angeles reveled in images like The Brown Derby restaurant with its glowing neon sign: “EAT IN THE HAT.” As if passers-by wouldn’t be intrigued enough by a building-sized bowler hat. First published in 1980, California Crazy is canon among vernacular architecture publications. Now it has been republished in a new hardcover edition with lush image reproductions and definitive essays about roadside architecture. We find bold approaches to advertising, experimental use of materials and fantasies created on Hollywood back lots spilling out into the world. The “newness” of California cities is hinted at through images of sparsely populated streets, the desert creeping in from the corners of the frame and ever-present automobiles — the driving force that made these kinds of structures necessary. When I first encountered California Crazy, DID YOU KNOW? / I had yet to visit California; a year later, I was living Novelty architecture there. One day during a refueling stop, I found is often shaped like myself giddily climbing the stairs into the belly the thing it sells: giant oranges selling juice, of the dinosaur in Cabazon that I first saw in this barrel-shaped bars, book. Today, I wish more of these rowdy buildings pig-shaped BBQ pits. survived. If only we could visit Hoot Hoot I Scream (an ice cream stand complete with rotating owl head) or maybe drop into the zeppelin-shaped Zep Diner for a nice cup of afternoon coffee.

CABAZON DINOSAURS, CA. 1993. DESIGN: CLAUDE BELL © JIM HEIMANN COLLECTION / COURTESY OF TASCHEN; CALIFORNIA CRAZY COVER COURTESY OF TASCHEN; SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT COURTESY OF SIMON & SCHUSTER

10 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 GAME CHANGERS The Benson Ford Research Center at The Henry Ford can help you discover Jim Johnson unexpected stories Director, of innovation behind Matt Anderson Greenfield Village, the game changers Curator of who helped shape Curator of Historic America, from Transportation, Structures & those instrumental The Henry Ford Landscapes, in the space race The Henry Ford to those on the Space Shuttle: racetrack. For help with access, write The History of the The Golden Tresses to research.center@ National Space of the Dead thehenryford.org. Transportation System by Alan Bradley by Dennis R. Jenkins SPACE The 10th book in Man in Space by For those born post- the Flavia de Luce David Anderton Apollo and pre-SpaceX, mystery series does Women in Space: the space shuttle Reaching the not disappoint, with Last Frontier embodies the final the unlikely 11-year- by Carole Briggs frontier. This thorough old detective genius/ How to Make a history chronicles the scientific savant Spaceship: A Band of shuttle’s conception, continuing to amaze Renegades, an Epic development and Sarah Andrus with her skills of Race, and the Birth of Technical Services Private Spaceflight first 100 missions. deduction to solve Specialist, by Julian Guthrie Support facilities at complex murder The Henry Ford Hidden Figures: The Cape Canaveral and mysteries. The stories’ American Dream and Edwards Air Force setting is the English the Untold Story of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat the Black Women Base are explored, village of Bishop by Samin Nosrat Mathematicians Who and the Challenger Lacey during the Helped Win the Space disaster is examined. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat early 1950s. The de Race by Margot Lee Last published in 2001, turns the practice of Luce ancestral home, Shetterly the book begs for an food writing on its Buckshaw, hosts WOMEN IN FLIGHT update through the head. Samin Nosrat amazing amenities, AND RACING shuttle’s retirement spends most of her including a Victorian- The Fun of It: in 2011. Random Records of cookbook turned era laboratory and My Own Flying and Netflix series teaching scientific library — of Women in Aviation the basic principles a personal favorite by Amelia Earhart of food but, in a twist, that makes me think Lyn St. James: Driven ignoring recipes as of Edison’s Menlo to Be First by Robert Ross Olney much as the industry Park. Without detailing would allow. Nosrat the book’s plot, Flavia ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN focuses on flavor does it again, with Building the Modern combinations with a little help. World: Albert Kahn colorful illustrations This series is in Detroit by Michael and proper practices a delightful read, Hodges of these titular four and I would highly ARCHIVAL major components of recommend beginning COLLECTIONS cooking. Furthermore, with its first book, • Accession 32.351 – Jenny her work pushes the The Sweetness at Young Chandler food world forward by the Bottom of the Photographs imparting her readers Pie, and then working Collection with knowledge your way through the A rare female and skills, not just other titles, which photojournalist working in the a grocery list and a are all literary quotes early 20th century, handful of must-follow skillfully woven into Chandler used her instructions. the story line. sensitivity and insight to capture life in Brooklyn and its vicinity.

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ENTREPRENEUR-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

SIX YEARS AGO, when Melvin active, present role model to those Parson inherited a neighbor’s who might have a background small vegetable bed, he had never similar to his own affords him the BE farmed. Tending it, something opportunity to offer up more positive happened. “I could feel Verna’s life choices. spirit come over me,” said Parson To Parson, investing in students THE of his neighbor. “I looked up into the might further help them sidestep heavens, and I said, ‘Look, Verna, the mistakes he has made. No deal you know I don’t know what I’m breaker there: It perfectly aligned SPARK doing here, but I’m going to do the with The Henry Ford’s goal to provide best I can in honor of you.’” barrier-free access to its collections Lighting the way to big ideas That bed grew into We the People and inspire the next generation of Growers Association (WTPGA), now a innovators and entrepreneurs. Earlier this year, The Henry Ford launched the tract at the back of Ypsilanti’s Grace “Melvin’s mission of improving William Davidson Foundation Initiative for Fellowship Church. This year, Parson the soil in people’s lives spoke Entrepreneurship. Poised to be an industry plans to supply organic vegetables clearly to our mission and purpose game changer, this endeavor gives The Henry consistently to 11 restaurants in Ann to inspire people to learn from Ford the opportunity to explore multiple Arbor and Ypsilanti as well as to St. American’s traditions of ingenuity, learning platforms and leverage its assets to Joe’s Farm Share. As its overarching resourcefulness and innovation to mission, WTPGA reconnects people engage emerging and seasoned innovators help shape a better future,” said to the soil by demonstrating the and entrepreneurs to collaborate, learn and Howell. “It has been wonderful to benefits of its cultivation and sharing grow (see Letter from the President on Page 6). see the ways in which he can enrich how it can enrich the body and mind The Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program is a our soil and how we can help enrich as well as help sustain communities. his and that of those he works for.” signature element of this initiative, which invites WTPGA also provides workforce Debra Reid, curator of agriculture an entrepreneur to devote time on-site at The opportunities for those re-entering and the environment at The Henry Henry Ford to work with staff, identify early-stage society after incarceration. Ford, agrees. “Melvin cares about growth opportunities throughout the museum, Parson knows those particular people and puts his care into nurture product development and optimize The difficulties personally; for a time, action by growing things to eat. Henry Ford visitor experience. The residency is a that was him. He credits his late His perspective on artifacts and collaborative opportunity that has the potential grandmother and others for the authentic stories documenting to attract entrepreneurs of all backgrounds and strides he has made. “People who farming and food history can help disciplines to build a healthier entrepreneurial didn’t give up on me or people who us see our collections in a new light.” ecosystem in southeast Michigan and beyond. treated me as though I was relevant,” With his six-month residency, a “Our Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program said Parson, “even in those times generous stipend and the resources is the first of its kind and will be reflective where I didn’t feel that way.” and connections of The Henry Ford, of diversity in not only demographics and Alongside the farm work, Parson Parson’s sights remain trained background but disciplines as well,” said graduated from Eastern Michigan on a nearly 10-acre parcel where Carol Kendra, The Henry Ford’s vice president University with a degree in social work. Though public speaking can Ypsilanti’s Kettering Elementary once of business development, strategic growth stood. He wants to farm the land and engagement. “We want this program to induce panic for him, when urged to talk by a We the People client at and build a nonprofit We the People attract individuals that will help us redefine a fundraiser, Parson gave in. Opportunity Center that focuses on what an educational institution such as The Coincidentally, Lucie Howell, chief providing skills development and Henry Ford can be.” learning officer at The Henry Ford, work for troubled youth and those In 2019, The Henry Ford is offering two was in the crowd. Howell was struck once incarcerated like Parson. residencies. The first Entrepreneur in by what she heard. So much so, she The center could one day house a Residence, Melvin Parson, will be on campus put forward Parson’s name for The world-class culinary arts program through mid-July, focusing on two designated Henry Ford’s inaugural Entrepreneur- and community center. Cultivating areas of innovation — agriculture and social in-Residence Program. With the others brings Parson something transformation. The second Entrepreneur nomination, Parson immediately that had once seemed elusive. in Residence will be on-site starting in inquired about the possibility of “I think a purpose-driven life is — midsummer and will focus on areas of bringing students he works with to if you follow in that purpose … it’s innovation related to design and making as events and workshops held during fulfilling, it’s rewarding, it’s nurturing, well as information and communication. the residency. For him, being an it’s soul resurrecting,” he said.

ONLINE To learn more about the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program and the William Davidson Foundation Initiative for Entrepreneurship, visit theinnovationproject.orgc

ONLINE To learn more about We the People Growers Association, visit wethepeoplegrowersassociation.comc 14 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 Agri-pioneer Melvin Parson is The Henry Ford’s first Entrepreneur in Residence. His residency term runs through July 22, 2019.

NAME: Melvin Parson ORGANIZATION: We the People Growers Association

DID YOU KNOW? / As The Henry Ford’s first Entrepreneur in Residence, farmer Melvin Parson will be on the campus of The Henry Ford weekly throughout his residency. In addition to working with The Henry Ford’s historical resources team, including the curators of the agriculture and environment collections, Parson will be collaborating with The Henry Ford’s food service department and Greenfield Village farming program.

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COLLINS AEROSPACE PRATT & WHITNEY CARRIER OTIS GIMME SHELTER The man who coined the term “Spaceship Earth” and his influence on utopian outposts of the radical ’60s and ’70s

By Alastair Gordon

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“It’s not a commune,” said Jay World Game. They read his rambling, Baldwin, who greeted me in 2013 cryptic texts, including Nine Chains among tiers of chicken coops to the Moon and Operating Manual restored by old hippies and student for Spaceship Earth, and they quoted squatters. Baldwin had been his pithy aphorisms: “I seem to be a living here since 1963, writing and verb …,” or “We are all passengers on experimenting with bizarre new Spaceship Earth …” offshoots of visionary architect and Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth inventor R. Buckminster (“Bucky”) Catalog — official supply source Fuller’s dwelling prototypes. for alternative communities in the “Everything Bucky did was to late ‘60s, early ‘70s — was inspired help us succeed as a planet,” said by and dedicated to the master. drove north through Baldwin, as he led us through his They followed Fuller’s philosophy of Airstream-trailer studio parked at “ephemeralization,” doing more with California’s Marin the back of the property. less, an outlook that would seem to Baldwin first met Fuller in have more relevance today than ever. County, past Petaluma, Ann Arbor, Michigan, circa 1965, It was Fuller’s geodesic dome, and turned onto after one of Fuller’s rambling however, that offered the greatest lectures. They met up again in promise for liberation and personal Old Redwood High- 1969 when Fuller came to visit transformation. The dome’s simple Pacific High, a free-form school yet complex geometry suggested way. There were in the Santa Cruz Mountains a multifaceted crystal, the eye of where Baldwin was teaching God, a circle of fellowship and the small farm lots, old students how to build variations mysterious oneness that so many of Fuller’s now-famous geodesic had experienced on popular drugs barns, prickle hedges prototype. They built more than 17 of the times such as LSD and domes, each one slightly different, psilocybin. “You merge with the and honeysuckle. including one that Baldwin called dome, its skin becomes your skin,” the Pillowdome, which was made wrote one ecstatic dome builder from vinyl pillows inflated with of the period. nontoxic, nonflammable argon gas. It seemed as if the children of the “The Pillowdome represents counterculture of the ‘60s adopted a new marriage between high- Fuller’s dome as a symbol of both technology and biology,” wrote resistance and solidarity as they Baldwin in Bucky Works, his 1996 were reaching against the plastic homage to Fuller’s genius. “It is consumer society of the post- probably the strongest, lightest, war era: the soulless suburban DID YOU KNOW? / permanent transparent building subdivision, TV dinners, polyester When R. Buckminster yet devised.” clothing, as well as darker, deeper Fuller first saw Jay issues such as social uniformity, Baldwin’s Pillowdome, MORE WITH LESS puritanical mores, political he declared it to be the “next iteration of the Even though Fuller was well into corruption and inequalities of race geodesic dome” and then his 70s and could have been and gender. Indeed, the dome promptly laid down on their grandfather, he became this could be seen as the seed for a the water bed and took generation’s prophet and master whole new civilization, one that an hour-long nap inside the 20-foot-diameter guide for building the proverbial was communal, self-supporting structure. When he awoke, COURTESY OF THE ESTATE OF “City on the Hill.” and nonhierarchical. Square was he asked Baldwin to build R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Sixties radicals lionized him. They bad, round was good. “Corners one on his family island were his natural offspring. They constrict the mind,” wrote one in coastal Maine. Baldwin agreed, if Fuller would pay attended his epic lectures. They hippie builder. “Domes break into all the material expenses. played his societal problem-solving new dimensions.”c

20 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 cGeodesic pioneer Jay Baldwin (bottom left) and friend Kathleen Whitacre lounge inside the first Pillowdome prototype in Pacific High, California, in 1969. Baldwin called the Pillowdome, which was made from vinyl pillows inflated with nontoxic, nonflammable argon gas, “the strongest, lightest, permanent transparent building yet devised.” PHOTO BY JACK FULTON

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22 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 Drop City, an early commune into the Sonoran desert like an Old in southern Colorado, featured Testament prophet and actually more than a dozen such domes, built a poured-concrete prototype including one of the earliest solar- for a whole new kind of organic, c heated shelters in America. Fuller high-density city without cars and Opposite page: In the ’60s, back-to-earth builder Jay Baldwin and his students constructed a number was so impressed by the ingenuity surrounded by wilderness. of variations on R. Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome, of Drop City’s founders that he “We must redefine the American neatly tucking them in the woods in Pacific High, presented them with the first (and dream before we rebuild the infra- California. Just hours away in Arcosanti, Arizona, in the only) Dymaxion Award, along with structure on which it is based,” ’70s, Paolo Soleri was building his own experimental community and earthen apses (below) in the desert. a check for $500 to help them said Soleri, always thinking on DOME PHOTO BY JACK FULTON; construct more. a macro scale. ARCOSANTI PHOTO BY ALASTAIR GORDON “Houses in our society are Deep in Colorado’s Huerfano walls, blocking man from man, Valley, I searched out Libre, one of man from the universe, man the longest-lasting communes of from himself,” wrote Bill Voyd, the counterculture era, and talked a founding member of Drop City. to co-founders Dean and Linda “We want our homes to spring Fleming. Libre recently celebrated from the soil like trees,” explained its 50th anniversary and is still another long-haired builder. going strong today, with eight or Here, conventional ideas of cities, more domes, zomes and variations community, family and housing thereof discreetly placed about the were rejected, seen as a part of the hillsides. According to the Flemings, same mindset that had brought secrets to the commune’s success carpet-bombing to Vietnam. include being located high in the mountains, almost impossible to OUTLAW BUILDERS find by runaways and “crazies”; Baldwin, who passed away abiding by a few basic guidelines recently, was just one of the many set down by the tribal council; and back-to-the-earth outlaw builders I offering ample space on the 360- interviewed as part of my research acre site to embrace solitude and when writing Spaced Out: Radical keep to oneself. Environments of the Psychedelic Then there was Charles Harker, Sixties. Visiting sites of former communes and radical outposts who’d built the undulating folds of across the country, I sought out his Earth House outside of Austin, the womb rooms, geodesic domes, Texas, using polyurethane foam infinity chambers, biomorphic sprayed over PVC armatures. shelters, tensile cocoons, yurts, “All design was spontaneous,” inflatable environments, tree said Harker, who compared his houses and contemplation pods of design-build process to the this lost but ecstatic generation. metamorphosis of a butterfly. By the time I arrived at the Polyurethane was soon thereafter forgotten outposts of New Buffalo, deemed toxic, and Harker’s house Hog Farm, Red Rock and other was abandoned. tribal collectives, most if not all of Not every destination was the evidence was gone. Communal easy to find, with many of the buildings at Morning Star and outlaw enclaves built illegally Wheeler’s Ranch in California’s and far off the radar — hidden on Sonoma County, for example, public land, deep in a forest, out had been bulldozed into oblivion, in a desert or high in a mountain while others had burned to the valley. While I never found Furthur, DID YOU KNOW? / the old school bus that Ken A copy of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog — ground. The search, however, a popular Fuller-inspired resource for those building turned out to be more about the Kesey and his Merry Pranksters alternative communities in the late ’60s — can be seeking than the finding. had transformed into a rolling found in Your Place in Time in Henry Ford Museum of Those I did find included the commune, painted with cryptic American Innovation. Look for it along the generational sustainable “arcology” and words and psychedelic swirls, wall on the exhibit’s left side. experimental Arizona town of I did rediscover Kesey’s legendary Arcosanti, built in the 1970s cabin in San Mateo County, about ONLINE To learn more about guided tours of by Paolo Soleri, a charismatic a mile past a biker bar called Apple the studio of experimental builder and architect Paolo Soleri and see his visionary who had been preaching Jack’s. The cabin was still largely designs and hand-crafted structures, a combination of architecture and intact, under new ownership, visit arcosanti.orgc ecology since the 1950s. Instead of perched on the banks of a creek, just theorizing, he’d wandered out beneath a towering redwood.c

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Some utopian outposts could building panels. Other free-form never be found and had only ever builders learned to work with “CORNERS existed in the imagination to start bottles, mounds of earth, mud with, like USCO’s Solux, a “spiritual bricks, old tires and bales of hay. CONSTRICT THE dude ranch” that was supposed Hippie surfers in Big Sur fabricated to be built on a mountainside near driftwood houses, but the U.S. Coast Taos, New Mexico. Or some were in Guard soon bulldozed the funky MIND,” WROTE existence for only a flash of time, structures into the sea. Bob de like Whiz Bang City East, a pop-up Buck built a house that resembled ONE HIPPIE commune built near Woodstock, a giant anthill in the desert near New York, in the summer of 1972. Truchas, New Mexico, using scrap BUILDER. Environmental artist Aleksandra wood scavenged from building sites Kasuba had created a cocoon around Albuquerque. ”Tools not to “DOMES BREAK dwelling there by pulling stretch have: straightedge, square, level, fabric between the branches and plumb,” advised de Buck. INTO NEW trunks of different trees. ON THE HORIZON DIMENSIONS.” IT’S PERSONAL A few months after meeting In this funky, self-build revolution, Baldwin, I did make it out to Bear making shelter was seen as an act Island, Fuller’s windswept island of personal transformation and DID YOU KNOW? / in Penobscot Bay, Maine, and Buckminster Fuller coined revelation. “Building is like yoga,” the spiritual birthplace of some the phrase “Spaceship said an anarchist builder named of his most innovative creations. Earth” to describe planet Douglas. “You can’t do it any other Earth. He felt that all There, near the very center of the way than one nail at a time … As human beings were island, I stumbled across the ruins within, so without.” passengers on Spaceship of Baldwin’s 1970 Pillowdome. Earth and, like the crew “All you have to do is start,” said a The original vinyl “pillows” had of a large ship, people homesteader named Feather, who had to work together in disintegrated a long time ago, moved into the forest of northern order to keep the planet but the main structure — the California determined to live on functioning properly. galvanized geodesic skeleton, the land as lightly as her adopted struts, connectors and bolts — name suggested. A free-land hippie named Teddy made a cocoon- were in remarkably good shape, shaped dwelling from rubberized considering it was 46 years old and macramé that he hung 50 feet up had endured the salt air and brutal a redwood in northern California. winters of coastal Maine. When this proved to be impractical Looking out from within the (and dangerous), he settled for a dome, there was no sense of a roof mushroom-shaped house closer to pressing down or of walls closing the ground, a fitting statement for in. It was more of a floating, bubble- someone who had found his inner like sensation. The tetrahedral calling on magic mushrooms. poetics of the hemisphere, now There was much scrounging black and naked, stripped clean and recycling of old materials, of its original translucent shell, living off the spoils of straight manifested itself as an alternate society. “Trapped inside a waste sky — if that makes any sense — economy, man finds an identity and looking through the prism-like as a consumer,” wrote Drop City’s veil created a peculiar inversion Voyd. “Once outside the trap, he of scale. The horizon appeared finds enormous resources at his oblique, distant and displaced. disposal — free.” It felt like a future that hadn’t Voyd and other self-build pioneers happened yet, a future of infinite chopped the metal tops out of possibilities that hadn’t been fully junked cars and shaped them into digested or understood. l

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24 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 MAKING A STATEMENT For many of the radical builders of the ’60s and ’70s, constructing shelter was viewed as an act of personal transformation and revelation, from (clockwise from bottom right) the Spectral Passage stretched-cloth environment designed by artist Aleksandra Kasuba and Bill Voyd’s early commune Drop City (bottom left and top right) to Charles Harker’s Earth House in Westlake, Texas, and 1970 adobe structures in New Mexico. SPECTRAL PASSAGE COURTESY OF ALEKSANDRA KASUBA; DROP CITY PHOTOS BY CLARK RICHERT; EARTH HOUSE COURTESY OF CHARLES HARKER; ADOBE FIREPLACE COURTESY OF WAYNE MCCALL

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aTHE WOMB-LIKE ZED ROOMS IN LONDON, CREATED BY DESIGN- LED APARTMENT AGENCY CUCKOOZ IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SIMBA PHOTO BY BILLY BOLTON

GEODESIC DOME BIOMORPHIC This thin-shell structure SHELTERS with a patented design Undulating, blob- by R. Buckminster Fuller like buildings made was the seed for a whole with mud or concrete. new way of living: “A new See James Hubbell’s Ilan-Lael compound in WOMB ROOM kind of space in which Santa Ysabel, California Just as it sounds: to create new selves,” as (1968-70), or Earth House a softly enfolding the Red Rock collective (1970) in West Lake Hills, space for meditation, put it. Check out the Texas, by Charles Harker soul searching and work of domeheads of Tao Design. lovemaking. Classic like Jay Baldwin, example: Wendell Steve Baer and Lloyd Castle’s biomorphic Kahn and intentional INFINITY CHAMBER Environment for communes like Drop Mirrored rooms created Contemplation (1970) City, Red Rock and the illusion of infinite with its Hobbit hatchway Libre. Plus, attractions space, sometimes using and darkly padded like Spaceship Earth in strobe lights to re-create interior. Also search Disney’s Epcot Center in the hallucinatory sense HOME Orlando or Vancouver’s of oneness certain illegal online for London boutique hotels that are Science World. substances provided. putting their own unique Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity SWEET spin on this concept. Mirror Room of 1965 and Stanley Landsman’s ZOME Walk-In Infinity Chamber of 1968 used hundreds A laterally expanded of mirrors and light bulbs. HOME and easier-to-build version of the geodesic dome. Outlaw builder Steve Baer is a zome DID YOU KNOW? / Defining what’s outside the mainstream when it specialist, building a Container City in London, comes to where we dwell is a bit relative. Most today bunch in ‘60s communes TENSILE COCOON built in 2001, turned 20 would consider single-family homes in cookie-cutter like Drop City and Libre A curvaceous chrysalis shipping containers into subdivisions, apartments, town houses and condos in Colorado and Manera 15 eco-friendly live-and- made with cables the norm, while the latest crazes in tiny and tree Nueva in New Mexico. work spaces. houses and shipping container living complexes and stretchy fabric to gain traction as alternatives. What happens when envelop the inhabitant YURT we push back against the conventional four walls in a mutable but A circular tent made and imagine ways to live more with less? protective, comforting from cloth or animal way. Environmental skins stretched around artist Aleksandra a collapsible framework. Kasuba created a cool Based upon nomadic one with her Cocoon shelters of Mongolia. Dwelling at Whiz Bang City East, 1972. COCOON DWELLING BY ALEKSANDRA KASUBA, WHIZ BANG CITY, WOODSTOCK NY, 1972 COURTESY OF ALEKSANDRA KASUBA

RESEARCH World Game, Buckminster Fuller’s proposed “great logistics game” and “world peace game” that was intended to be a tool to facilitate a comprehensive, anticipatory, design science approach to the problems of the worldc

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26 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 DID YOU KNOW? / DID YOU KNOW? / Dymaxion House Jay Baldwin, Bucky was named for its Fuller disciple and properties: dynamic, geodesic dome specialist, maximum and tension. spent the summer of 1992 directing the dismantling of the Wichita (Dymaxion) House that now sits in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Sole The aluminum-and- steel structure was factory built, originally Survivor assembled on William R. Buckminster Fuller saw things a bit differently. Graham’s lakeside property in Andover, He saw lightweight domes and triangular struts a suburb of Wichita, where others saw square buildings with peaked roofs Kansas. Baldwin and and load-bearing walls. His drive to conserve the a crew of workers took world’s resources by “doing more with less” led him more than 23 days to to create landmark architectural structures, like his rescue as many of the Dymaxion House. Fuller envisioned the 1,000-square- house’s 3,600 parts as foot aluminum dome as the house of the future, possible. In the process, they dealt with corrosion challenging all preconceived notions of “home.” DID YOU KNOW? / and an army of unruly Designed to be mass-produced — and to sell for While touring Henry Ford Museum of American raccoon inhabitants. about the price of a Cadillac — Dymaxion House was Innovation in 2008, the now former director of The salvaged parts were prototyped but never made it onto the market. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Charles Elachi, shipped to Dearborn, The sole surviving Dymaxion House is on display looked at Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House where they were in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, and said, “You know, this might be the way we painstakingly cleaned, where visitors can walk through the front door, could construct buildings on Mars.” restored and reassembled in the museum. Dymaxion tour its rooms and experience Fuller’s vision for WATCH Charles Elachi’s Visionaries on Innovation House opened in 2001. his domed dwelling from the inside out. interview conducted with The Henry Ford thf.org/explore/charles-elachic

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The homespun origin story of an astronaut’s modern marvel of a moon uniform

By Fedor Kossakovski

ILLUSTRATION BY ISABEL ESPANOL / FLIGHT PLAN COURTESY OF NASA

28 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 thf.org 29 The photo sticks in the imagination more than any image of sleek rockets on the launchpad or metallic modules landing on an inhospitable It’s world. Perhaps it’s the casual, individual bravado oozing off of Aldrin’s puffed-up frame that truly captures the essence of humans pushing past the ultimate boundary: space. And yet the spacesuit is rarely the star of the human spaceflight epic. Which is a shame, possibly the most since this was the most intimate component of the engineering endeavor that landed man on recognizable the moon 50 years ago — intimate also because the surprising winner of NASA’s spacesuit image in all of contract was a spinoff of Playtex, the underwear manufacturer which still makes items from bras human history: to feminine products to this day. “The suits that other companies provided were stiff, they were bulky, they couldn’t fit Buzz Aldrin on the narrow confines of the mission parameters,” said Nicholas de Monchaux, professor of archi- the surface of tecture at University of California-Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and writer the moon, his left of a deeply researched book called Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo. arm drifting up At the core is the idea of the “human factor,” often overlooked by engineers in their quest to reach the lunar surface. The Saturn V rocket and as if checking the lunar module were exquisitely engineered, with sharp, clean lines governed by the unchanging the time during forces of physics: thrust, gravity, air resistance. But the same equations are blurred when dealing a stroll through with the human form. “The human body doesn’t operate from first principles,” said de Monchaux. the park. In the race to win the initial suit contract, companies such as David Clark Company, which made the Mercury mission suits, and Hamilton Standard, a division of conglomerate United Aircraft, produced concepts informed by their decades-long experience with high-altitude pressure suits. These options proved much more difficult to maneuver than the suit produced by ILC Dover, the Playtex spinoff whose patented “convolutes” included rubber identical to what was filling Playtex’s girdle molds as well as nylon tricot and webbing taken from the supplies feed- ing its brassiere assembly lines.c

30 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 aCocooned within 21 layers of synthetics, neoprene rubber and metalized polyester films, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin was well protected from the airless moon’s extremes of heat and cold, deadly solar ultraviolet radiation and even the off chance of a hurtling micrometeorite.

PHOTO BY NEIL ARMSTRONG/NASA

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In 1966, events came to a head when a new ILC suit had to compete once more against prototypes from Hamilton Standard and David Clark. Test subjects using the competing suits had trouble moving around, operating switches and fitting in and out of the mock landing module. Imagine if Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had touched down successfully on the moon only to not fit through the hatch and step on the surface! Though each competing suit was custom fitted, only the 21-layer ILC Dover soft suit was sewn by hand by a hotshot crew of the best seamstresses taken from Playtex’s sewing floor — eschewing paint-by-numbers engineering in favor of highly personalized, artisanal craftsmanship. Their knowledge, gained by fashioning bras DID YOU KNOW? / ILC Dover seamstresses and girdles for women’s activewear, proved had to piece together indispensable to creating a superior product. 21 gossamer-thin layers The material itself was co-opted: “The rubber of highly technical that made the suit was literally from the same fabrics for the spacesuit — including a Teflon- tank that was, originally at least, supplying the coated silica-fiber cloth girdle-making that had made Playtex’s fortune,” and a woven form of said de Monchaux. stainless steel. And they The ILC Dover suit bested the others in official used just regular Singer NASA tests, but the systems-engineering sewing machines to do it. bureaucracy of the Apollo program was still skeptical of an untested spinoff holding such a critical contract. When again faced with competition for the last phase of Apollo’s missions (numbers 14-17), the ILC Dover team even resorted to filming a test subject playing football in a pressurized suit for several hours. “And, as became clear on watching the films, the suited subject’s attempts were at the very least equivalent to those of an engineer in shirtsleeves and slacks who joined him on the field,” wrote de Monchaux. “ILC Dover, née Playtex, had won the Apollo game.”c

UNLIKELY ENGINEERS Clockwise from top: Many ILC Dover seamstresses and employees making everyday women’s girdles like those shown in this ad took the unlikely jump to producing clothing for the moon in the 1960s, including Velma Breeding, seen here installing a bladder into a boot, and Arlene Thalene, inspecting the suit’s mylar insulation layers. PLAYTEX PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS; MIDDLE AND BOTTOM PHOTOS COURTESY OF ILC DOVER, LP

32 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 cAn Apollo mission prototype spacesuit is shown without its outer cover (left), known as a Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment (TMG). Once securely attached to the spacesuit’s inner pressure garment, the multilayered TMG (right) protected astronauts against micro- meteoroid impacts, solar and galactic radiation, thermal conduction and abrasion as well as provided fire protection. PHOTOS BY MARK AVINO, SMITHSONIAN IMAGE 2003- 27279 AND 2003-27277, COURTESY OF SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

aA composite of the final drawings from ILC Dover depicts (from right to left) an Apollo 11 spacesuit’s pressure garment assembly, a suit with its Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment (TMG) attached and an astronaut wearing a suit with TMG outer cover, gloves and helmet. SUIT DRAWINGS COURTESY OF ILC DOVER, LP

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bAstronaut Neil Armstrong — shown here aboard the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, the first crewed vehicle to land on the moon — later quipped that his spacesuit was one of the most widely photographed spacecrafts in history.

PHOTO BY NASA / EDWIN E. ALDRIN JR.

dHealth giant Essity is currently working with NASA to create a compression suit that astronauts will wear upon re-entry to Earth. The garments, shown separately here for illustrative purposes, will prevent or avoid the sudden redistribution of fluids to the Neil Armstrong wrote a note to the team that lower extremities upon return to Earth’s gravity. designed the spacesuit, sending it 25 years PHOTO COURTESY OF ESSITY after he stepped onto the moon. In the letter, he complimented the team and the spacesuit, calling it “tough, reliable and almost cuddly.”

34 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 DRESSED FOR HEALTH consideration is that the astronauts will have to More than 50 years after the Apollo 11 astronauts wear these for hours in a seated, upside-down Saved by donned their spacesuits on the moon, I’m sitting position, and tests of earlier designs irritated the Suit in an office at hygiene and health giant Essity’s subjects’ bent knees. The newest version of the HUMAN facility in North Carolina trying to pull on what looks compression suit comes slightly pre-bent at CHALLENGES like your average thick knee-high black socks. the joint, making it more comfortable. OF SPACEFLIGHT Kevin Tucker, the global technical innovations THE HUMAN FACTOR ABSORBED IN manager for a division of Essity, chuckles as UNIFORM I struggle with the fabric as it tightens like a The human body was not meant for space travel, vice. Tucker is in charge of the company’s work and the soft problems it presents require innova- with NASA to develop a compression suit for tive solutions with intimate knowledge of the astronauts returning from space. He points out human body (see sidebar at right). Unfortunately, as he puts the socks away that future NASA it’s not always something the engineering culture astronauts will wear something with twice the of rocket scientists takes into account. compression power. “We’re still thinking about the engineering and THE VACUUM Exposed to the vacuum Essity’s bread and butter is making compression the propulsion systems and the vehicle, but we’re of space, a body’s fluids garments for people with venous and lymphatic not thinking enough about the pink, squishy things that are in the middle of that vehicle,” said Diana would start boiling away diseases. That’s when the body has issues with Dayal, who did a year-long apprenticeship at the as the body puffs up. pumping fluids against the pull of gravity, causing National Space Biomedical Research Institute A spacesuit protects symptoms from lack of feeling in extremities to you — but, be warned, (NSBRI). Funded by NASA’s Human Research loss of consciousness. it will puff up, too. Program, NSBRI, which closed in 2017, was NASA’s It’s something we have all experienced to some lead partner in space biomedical research and degree, said Tucker: “If you’re sick in bed with the provided hands-on lab opportunities for young flu and you’re lying down for a long period of time scientists, engineers and physicians such as and you have to go run to the bathroom, the first Dayal to access careers in human spaceflight. step you usually take you end up on your nose.” On future, longer space missions, the human Astronauts also have trouble with fluid control. factor will be amplified. New challenges will THE TEMPERATURE First, when they get up into space and gravity is arise from the long stint in low gravity. “The Outside the International no longer a factor, fluids get pumped more into deconditioning of your bones and muscles is Space Station, the their torso and head. That’s why new arrivals to going to be an unavoidable problem on a three- temperature swings the International Space Station have puffy faces. year Mars mission,” said Dayal. “How are you wildly from 250F to After awhile, the body adjusts and pumps less supposed to send people to Mars and expect -250F. But, with no to accommodate the lack of gravity. But the them to set up a habitat?” atmosphere to transfer heat or cold, a well- problem rears its head again upon re-entry and One of the solutions being explored is the rapid reintroduction to gravity. Now the body’s insulated spacesuit enhancing the spacesuit with an exoskeleton — keeps you comfy. fluid pumping is weakened, and astronauts often essentially empowering the humans by linking have to be carried out of the capsule. them to a stronger robotic carapace. A good idea, “This sudden rush of fluid away from the head but the prototype Dayal saw at NASA’s Johnson and heart down into the legs can affect your Space Center was so large and cumbersome, consciousness,” said Tucker. That’s something it was hard to imagine it on an average person. his team is trying to change. “It’s so cool that you basically have all this To help NASA, Essity is applying its expertise in circuitry that simulates nerves, but at the same THE RADIATION designing compressive socks, sleeves and girdles time, who did you build this for? Who’s going Above the protection of to create a compression suit future astronauts to wear it?” They were questions posed by the Earth’s atmosphere would wear on re-entry to prevent or avoid the Dayal’s group, she said, pointing out that current and magnetic field, sudden redistribution of fluids to the lower designs lack sufficient modularity to adjust to cosmic radiation is the extremities upon return to Earth’s gravity. When different body types. most consistent health concern. A spacesuit Tucker lays out the current design on a table, While the lessons learned in developing the provides very limited it’s a crisscross of tight black fabric and a few soft Apollo suit decades earlier may have to be protection — as does the zippers, woven in a way reminiscent of those revisited as we look to longer missions, it’s also space station. fancy yoga pants that have sheer patterns. an opportunity to push the boundaries of design. It’s slated to be the first layer of gear NASA “All of your constraints are out the window; astronauts will put on as they prepare to splash everything is a variable,” said Dayal. “If anything, down — so getting stuck as you pull on the designing for space should help us better design suit is simply not an option. Another “soft” for Earth.” l

THE LACK OF GRAVITY Makes muscles atrophy, bones lose density and fluids redistribute. NASA is, um, working on it.

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21 LAYERS: The spacesuit designed WHAT by ILC Dover and worn on the moon had 21 layers — 20 of which WAS THE were created with synthetics made by chemical giant DuPont. APOLLO Familiar household names like nylon, Lycra SPACESUIT and Teflon were found in various layers, a fact DuPont proudly MADE OF? advertised at the time.

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A media artist and a punk rocker harness the early internet to experiment with newfound freedoms in terms of identity, gender, poetry and prose

By Claire L. Evans

ILLUSTRATION BY JUDE BUFFUM

38 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 thf.org 39 SET IN CYBERSPACE

t began as productions of Waiting for Godot always begin. Two tramps stood alone in a desolate landscape. The one calling himself Vladimir cleared his throat. “Nothing to be done,” he announced. His companion, Estragon — whom Vladimir calls Gogo in moments of tenderness — responded: “I’m beginning to come round to that opinion.” As in every production, the pair waited for someone who might never come. As one critic famously put it, Waiting for Godot is a play in which “nothing happens, twice.”

Except this time, something did. as we know it today, the internet’s To be fair, this particular Godot earliest common spaces were production wasn’t traditional. populated by aliases, avatars and Instead of a spare black-box theater, characters, as users worldwide the play took place in a chat room, experimented with new identities — a postcard-sized window on an and even genders — in the undefined online service called The Palace, new world of computer-mediated popular in the mid-1990s with early communication. In this nebulous netizens worldwide. In this staging, free-for-all, many early adopters the main characters are played by envisioned themselves part of a a pair of bobble-headed smileys, new, egalitarian society, a “civiliza- generic twin avatars standing in for tion of the mind” where individuals playwright Samuel Beckett’s harried could finally communicate freely, everymen. When lines are spoken, unbound from the presuppositions they appear in cartoon speech associated with class, ability, race, bubbles, pop-ups of text hovering age or gender. over each avatar. The audience, It also made this Godot possible. as the performers, was remote, Beckett so strongly opposed the represented by avatars — of the casting of women in Waiting for industrial singer Trent Reznor, Godot that he tried to block all- of a bleeding head and of the female productions throughout toylike customized “dollz” that his life; in cyberspace, however, later became popular all over the Vladimir and Estragon could freely growing World Wide Web. That the be played by anyone. In this case, audience and performers were two women: Adriene Jenik (Didi), jumbled up together in one corner of a media artist who’d cut her teeth cyberspace lent this production of making interactive CD-ROMs, Beckett’s tragicomedy its greatest and Lisa Brenneis (Gogo), a difference from all others; it’s why punk bassist turned Hollywood Godot was finally able to show up. production genie. The two were Call it guerrilla digital theater, co-teaching a graduate seminar call it post-post-modernist clap- at the University of California in trap or call it what its practitioners Los Angeles and dabbling with eventually would: cyberformance. multiplayer role-playing games like Ultima Online until they found their A CARTOON COMMONS real medium in The Palace, a free Cyberspace seems to have invited platform with a negligible learning this kind of digital theater from the curve and unprecedented levels outset. Long before social media of customization.

40 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 It was “an easy place to have an movie deals, Twitter jokesters write alternate persona, or 10,” Brenneis books and viral meme makers end explained. “You could just draw up on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. what you wanted, and you could These performances are the social change your body whenever you currency of our age. But when wanted … there was a lot of latitude, Desktop Theater was experimenting if you didn’t mind that it looked, in in The Palace, Facebook was not yet general, kind of cartoony.” a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg’s eye, With their Godot, the pair entered and the places where people met into a slim lineage of dramatic online were pseudo-anonymous pioneers, beginning with a British and free, dominated by avatars in troupe called the Hamnet Players, fantasy landscapes and rich with who performed clipped, acronym- the possibility of new forms of riddled Shakespeare on Internet interaction. Relay Chat, or IRC, as early as 1993, and the Plaintext Players, led by FREEDOM OF CHAT the artist Antoinette LaFarge, Brenneis and Jenik never did find out who claimed the nebulous space who their Godot was, but he became of Multi-User Domains, or MUDs, a kind of mascot for the troupe. His for productions that merged action was precisely what they found traditional theater with live coding so thrilling about this kind of theater: performance. Brenneis and Jenik’s at the fulcrum between performance and conversation, any stray word troupe, which they eventually could tilt the balance. dubbed Desktop Theater, was the “Those of us committed to first to bring such experiments out breaking down the barrier between from the realm of pure text and into actor and spectator find immediate a graphical interface; to perform interest in the arrangement of Godot in the “cartoony” The Palace, participants sharing the same arena, they chose a public room called The already masked and performing Moor, a grim, pixelated landscape versions of themselves,” Jenik wrote dotted with leafless trees, because in a paper for The Drama Review of its resemblance to Beckett’s summing up Desktop Theater’s famously austere stage direction: experiments. A country road. A tree. Evening. It goes without saying that The Despite being the “crudest Palace was not actually designed possible representation” of for theater. It was conceived during theatrical space, Jenik explained, an era when the going presumption “completely 2D, totally virtual, for entrepreneurial success in online all of that — if somebody moved social platforms was a subscription their avatar next to my avatar, I felt model: Many early chat systems, that.” The surprising bodily thrill of bulletin boards and commercial the virtual stage drove the pair to online services charged by the hour push their avatar characters into and designed their communities to all manner of performances across maximize the kind of engagement The Palace. At its best, Brenneis that kept people logged in as long described it as an “immersive state,” as possible. The Palace, however, just like acting on an IRL stage. was unusual; built as a decentralized “It never made sense to watch network, it allowed users to host Desktop Theater,” she said. “It only their own Palace servers for free, made sense to do Desktop Theater.” charging only for optional upgrades In a sense, we all do the same. to the client, and this low barrier to Desktop Theater perceived, earlier entry encouraged long-tail diversity. than most, that we all perform There were countless Palace club- online. Today, even though our houses, dungeons and hangouts, words and actions are linked to and even commercial iterations; our real names and faces, social the band Korn, for example, had media remains a big show. We its own promotional Palace, as did crop our selfies. Celebrities stage the 1996 film Independence Day dramas in the windows of their and that year’s Super Bowl. Instagram Stories. A good online That The Palace became a site performance can translate to for experimental performance is a real-world celebrity; YouTubers land consequence of this opennessc

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and of the affordances of its user When Godot first crashed Desktop experience: the remarkable custom- Theater’s production of Waiting izability of rooms and avatars, and for Godot, it clearly signaled the the largely unmoderated freedoms interactive possibilities of theater of the chat space itself. in cyberspace. It was an outcome “The whole decentralized model made possible by the medium and of The Palace was amazing,” said facilitated by the artists driven to Jenik. “I mean, it was just an explo- discover its boundaries. It’s difficult sion of creativity and subculture to say who, or what, our modern- and things that could happen, as day Godot might be. Few social cAdriene Jenik and Lisa Brenneis’ opposed to a top-down overlord platforms on the web today allow Desktop Theater troupe staged that plans out everything.” for the kind of creative adaptation 60-odd online productions in The Palace made possible in the The Palace’s cartoony platforms from the late ’90s through early NOTHING TO BE DONE mid-1990s; our online interactions Artists have always been the 2000s, including Samuel Beckett’s today are endlessly proscribed, tragicomedy Waiting for Godot greatest beta testers. No other hemmed in by inflexible aesthetic and the duo’s original play called class of person is so driven to boundaries and indefatigably Santaman’s Harvest. deliberately misuse tools, technolo- catalogued, surveilled and gies and platforms, bending them all monetized by hugely powerful to idiosyncratic and evolving needs corporations with very little unanticipated by their designers. incentive to nurture or protect the In the early days of the World stirrings of creative adaptation. Wide Web, this tendency dovetailed neatly with the nebulous nature of Unanticipated disruptions on cyberspace as both an emerging places like Facebook, Twitter and technology and unformed social Instagram are vanishingly rare commons, producing new art and most often have negative forms with as much variety and connotations: With unfettered viability as any of the era’s starry- access to personal information, eyed startup web businesses. After trolls are more likely to weaponize all, when the technology is social, identity than be playful with it. creative social innovations are as We may be more connected important as any bug fix or feature than ever, but when it comes update; they are coeval with the to the freedom required to take platform itself, and their instigators, authentically innovative actions, like Desktop Theater or the count- to delight and surprise one another less uncompensated sources of with creative engagement beyond dPALACE SCREEN meme and mirth on the social web likes, shares and targeted ad buys, COURTESY OF JIM BUMGARDNER today, are life forces of innovation it may be there is — as Vladimir without which networked computing tells Estragon in the opening act technology would not only be limited of Waiting for Godot — simply but essentially lifeless. “nothing to be done.” l

“THE WHOLE DECENTRALIZED MODEL OF THE PALACE WAS AMAZING. I MEAN, IT WAS JUST AN EXPLOSION OF CREATIVITY AND SUBCULTURE AND THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN, AS OPPOSED TO A TOP-DOWN OVERLORD THAT PLANS OUT EVERYTHING.” — Adriene Jenik

42 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 aPALACE SCREEN COURTESY OF bSANTAMAN’S HARVEST, ARTWORK JIM BUMGARDNER BY ADRIENE JENIK ADAPTED FROM PAUL LAFFOLEY DRAWING

bWAITINGFORGODOT.COM ARTWORK BY THE PALACE, COURTESY OF ADRIENE JENIK

dSANTAMAN’S HARVEST, ARTWORK BY ADRIENE JENIK ADAPTED FROM MARTIN RAMIREZ DRAWING

dSANTAMAN’S HARVEST, ARTWORK BY ADRIENE JENIK

aWAITINGFORGODOT.COM ARTWORK BY THE PALACE, COURTESY OF ADRIENE JENIK

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HOMEGROWN COMMUNITY THE Adriene Jenik and Lisa Brenneis’ Desktop Theater INTERNET troupe expanded into a cadre of global performers, eventually staging 60-odd online productions MADE ME of varying complexity in The Palace’s cartoony FAMOUS platforms from the late ‘90s through early 2000s, Present-day cyber many of which were screened simultaneously in celebrities and internet brick-and-mortar theaters all over the planet. personalities They did French philosopher Guy Debord; they staged a Yoko Ono text, Grapefruit in the World of RYAN Park. They did improvs, workshops and open mics. TOYSREVIEW Their most ambitious production, an original play Since he was 3 years old, called Santaman’s Harvest, played out in three acts Ryan and his parents over interlinked rooms in a virtual theater custom- have been recording and built by the troupe. After performances, the Desktop posting on YouTube his Theater players would move from public stage reactions to unboxing rooms to a private “green room,” where their avatars, and playing with toys. wearing digital props like cigarettes, party hats READ Broad Band by Some four years later, and martinis, would indulge in that most vaunted Claire L. Evansc Ryan is a major influencer of theatrical traditions: the cast party. in the toy industry. Most The Palace’s designer, Jim Bumgardner, then an recently, he landed his employee of Time Warner who specialized in the own line of toys, to be creation of interactive entertainment CD-ROMS, sold at major retailers understood that his design would maximize such like Walmart and Target. organic growth and instill a sense of homegrown community in its users — and that its cartoony flatness ZACH KING MAGIC would only augment his creation’s dreamlike quality. American Vine star “The universe of ideas is not a 3D space,” he Zach King mowed explained. “It’s a space of ideas rather than a space hundreds of lawns so of real estate. Just as abstract paintings are not about he could get his first 2D space. They’re about form and color and ideas.” camera and MacBook Desktop Theater staged performances in this Pro to create and post “space of ideas” until the platform became unusable cool digital sleights of as a consequence of dot-com-boom-fueled hand online. Now he is purchases and mergers involving several large officially partnered up multinational corporations. Fortunately, a number with Apple to launch the of cyberformance practitioners had moved to new DID YOU KNOW? / tech giant’s first video platforms and techniques by then, and Desktop Generic smiley faces — essentially 3D-modeled lab, called Small Screen Theater’s primary inheritors, an international tennis balls with eyes and a mouth — were the Magic, to teach sessions three-piece performance group called Avatar first avatars available on the online service on how to shoot and Body Collision, had started to use business video The Palace, where many cyberformances were edit video. staged. The Palace’s creator, Jim Bumgardner, conferencing software for their live productions. said the selection of more rudimentary icons KARINA GARCIA By 2002, they were well at work designing a platform was deliberate, fearing that offering avatar explicitly for cyberformance, a free, web-based YOUTUBE customization options would fill up the space CHANNEL program called UpStage that is still in use today. with less-than-desirable artwork. A college dropout wait- ressing to get by, Karina RESEARCH The Palace visual chat service, where Garcia made her first DIY DID YOU KNOW? / online users could interact with one another slime video and posted using graphical avatars on backdropsc Waiting for Godot is playwright Samuel it on YouTube in 2015. Beckett’s tragicomedy. That launched a slime- DID YOU KNOW? / Published in 1952 and first making phenomenon One of the earliest uses of the term “virtual reality” produced in 1953, the play in 2016 that eventually comes from theater; the French playwright Antonin has productions running garnered Garcia a line of Artaud compared theater to alchemy, writing that they all over the world in 2019. at-home craft kits under were both “virtual arts” that “do not carry their end — the Craft City brand sold or their reality — within themselves.” at Target.

44 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 “THOSE OF US COMMITTED TO BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIER BETWEEN ACTOR AND SPECTATOR FIND IMMEDIATE INTEREST IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF PARTICIPANTS SHARING THE SAME ARENA, ALREADY MASKED AND PERFORMING VERSIONS OF THEMSELVES.” — Adriene Jenik

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thf.org 49 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD HENRY FORD MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INNOVATION HIGH-TECH RETROFIT New Wi-Fi went live in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation a couple of years ago, with enough capacity to handle 6,000 guests connected simultaneously. Now it’s time to take The Henry Ford’s digital transformation to the next level, with the pending deployment of hundreds of Bluetooth Low Energy MORE TO (BLE) beacons throughout the museum. The beacons, donated by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, are the backbone OUR STORIES for new digital experiences at The Henry Ford, said Matt New mobile app will enhance museum Elliott, manager of digital experiences, give visitors increased access experience, including the new mobile app. “Expanding our to artifacts, stories of innovation digital foundation is going to further activate museum innovation,” he added. “We are planning to bring forth IMAGINE YOUR SMARTPHONE doubling to tell, and now guests can utilize the mobile the innovators behind the as your own personal tour guide at Henry app to enhance their visit,” Elliott said, artifacts and allow guests Ford Museum of American Innovation. explaining that the app includes a map of to further explore our large That’s the plan as The Henry Ford launches the museum with turn-by-turn directions, digital collection.” THF Connect, its first-ever mobile app 50 featured artifacts and a digital Augmented reality elements are part of the plan to add a this year. With it, visitors to the museum membership card as well as “My Visit,” fun storytelling element to the can dig deeper, gain exclusive access and which allows users to document the things physical experience on the digest content and artifact backstories in they experience at the museum and return museum floor. Visitors can more interesting ways than ever before. to them later. The app also has four audio already experience new digital Think audio tours, wayfinding, augmented tours: Prototypes and Beginning, Only at columns in the museum plaza reality and more. The Henry Ford, Selling an Innovation and (see photo below) and near the Matt Elliott, the museum’s manager Stories of Henry Ford and His Museum. Dymaxion House. Wrapped on of digital experience, along with the “We are taking the opportunity to allow five sides with digital screens, museum’s digital team, first tested — guests to provide us feedback on our the columns engage as a with lots of positive user feedback — and app,” said Elliott, “so we can continuously visitor approaches, revealing launched the app for iOS phones. A sister refine and optimize the experiences we stories of innovation. app for Android directly followed. are providing.” “The Henry Ford has such amazing stories — MARTI BENEDETTI

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ALL THE WRIGHT STUFF Every year during the Wright Day of Celebration, Greenfield Village CELEBRITY challenges visitors to run as fast as the first airplane and explore the rarely seen offices of Orville and Wilbur Wright, where the IN HER first flight was conceived. Many of the family’s stories of flight also include sister Katharine, who played a OWN RIGHT vital role in her famous brothers’ innovations and Katharine Wright tackled the traditional her family’s public persona. while pushing boundaries In the Martha-Mary Chapel, listen as a village master presenter tells Katharine’s story of service IT’S AN OLD STORY. Women keeping the A Latin teacher at Dayton’s Steele High to her family through words home fires burning for their loved ones. School, she walked away from her beloved and pictures. Picnic with the three Wright siblings Katharine Wright handled household profession to help Orville convalesce on the Village Green, and responsibilities for her family, giving her after a plane crash in 1908. A year later, enjoy casual conversation brothers, Wilbur and Orville, the freedom to she would join her two brothers in France and family anecdotes. focus on achieving the first heavier-than-air as they held public demonstrations Make your way to the flight in 1903. Yet, along the way, she pushed of their latest airplane. Unafraid and Wright family home in a few boundaries of her own — experiencing heedless of the February cold, she Greenfield Village’s Main things most women of her era did not. made several flights with Wilbur at the Street District, and be After her mother’s death in 1889, controls, flying longer and farther than any transported to the moment Katharine took over running the home American woman at that time. Witty and in 1903 when the Wright for her father and older brothers at age extroverted, she also delighted foreign brothers shared news of 15. Later, after Wilbur and Orville had reporters with her unaffected Midwestern their first flight with their established their aircraft company, she manner and quickly became a celebrity only sister. For updates on the annual also handled much of their business in her own right — the only woman ever Wright Day of Celebration invited to a dinner at the Aéro-Club de correspondence. (Aug. 18) and related Unlike her quiet mother, Katharine was France during aviation’s early years. activities inside Greenfield spunky, encouraged by her father to seek She later would serve on the board of Village, visit thf.org. education and a profession. She did, Oberlin College, devote time to causes graduating not only from high school — such as women’s suffrage and eventually something most people, men or women, marry for the first time at age 52. With didn’t do at this time — but college as well, domestic responsibilities always tugging, which was even rarer. She was, in fact, the she never stopped pushing boundaries. only Wright child to complete college. — JEANINE HEAD MILLER, CURATOR OF DOMESTIC LIFE

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52 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 cKatharine Wright (left) joins her brother Wilbur for her first flight in France in 1909. At the time, she had flown longer and farther than any American woman.

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ANOTHER STEM SUPERWOMAN In 1955, Suzanne Vanderbilt joined General Motors as a PEOPLE junior designer for Chevrolet interiors. A recent college graduate with an industrial design degree from Pratt Institute, she was part of a PERSON new group of women recruited Dearborn Truck Plant’s new manager sees the to work in automotive design centers to reflect the future of manufacturing in every worker industry’s growing awareness of the female consumer. Like today’s Dearborn Truck Plant Manager WHEN YOU TAKE THE Ford Rouge Factory Manzano is also dedicated to increasing Debbie Manzano, Vanderbilt Tour, look for an athletic woman with blond the number of women in her field. According pioneered her way to a top hair in a reflective yellow safety vest, the one to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2016, spot in an industry that, at the time, lacked a significant with smiley-face tape over her wedding ring women comprised just 29 percent of the to avoid scratching the new Ford F-150s on female workforce. She, in fact, manufacturing workforce, a percentage tenaciously worked her way up the assembly line. That’s Dearborn Truck even lower at many plants. As a co-chair GM’s ranks when most of her Plant Manager Debbie Manzano. If you’re of the Women in Manufacturing resource female design counterparts in the right spot at the right time, she might group at Ford, Manzano and a core team departed, eventually even stop to talk to you during your tour. meet weekly, usually on weekends, to becoming one of GM’s “It gives people a chance to ask tackle tough issues, from how diversity chief designers. questions, see a female in a leadership role, can improve bottom lines to debating The Suzanne Vanderbilt which is significant,” said Manzano, who flexible or transitional work assignments. Papers, 1958-1986, are part of the collections of The assumed the plant’s helm in August 2018 “Getting managers to open their eyes and was an inspiring force for hundreds of Henry Ford. The papers offer to that,” said Manzano of adaptable students taking the factory tour during last a unique perspective on schedules, “can be a good thing. It can October’s Manufacturing Day. “Especially projects Vanderbilt supervised be positive. It can make us better.” with everything that’s going on in the in GM’s design center. Her Manzano regularly speaks with environment, I think it’s necessary.” work was especially evident students about career opportunities in in her three patents for an With a career in manufacturing that manufacturing, the industry that gave her inflatable back support for began nearly 25 years ago, Manzano’s seats, a safety switch for an elevation to the truck plant’s top post immigrant parents a livelihood. “My mom was always saying, ‘Look at your dad. He auto instrument panel and a goes well beyond her 12-hour-a-day work motorcycle helmet design. works long hours on different shifts. It’s a ethic. “My favorite part of the day is when For access to the Vanderbilt I walk the floor and talk to the people,” tough, dirty job,’” laughed Manzano. But papers that are part of The said Manzano. “In manufacturing, it really for someone who was always passionate Henry Ford collections, is about the people. They’re the ones about and excelled at engineering, science contact the Benson Ford doing the work every day and making the and math, nothing could keep her away. Research Center at research. difference, right? I’m here to support them “I have always thought this is cool!” [email protected]. … that’s my key leadership role.” — SUSAN ZWEIG

DID YOU KNOW? / Debbie Manzano earned her bachelor’s degree in math and statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and, while working, got her master’s in industrial engineering at nearby UM-Dearborn. She also recently ONLINE For more information, hours and graduated with a certificate in pricing for the Ford Rouge Factory SAVE THE DATE yoga teacher training. “Yoga Tour, visit thf.org/rougec Manufacturing Day has changed how I think about Ford Rouge Factory Tour things and who I am,” she said. Oct. 4 ONLINE To learn more about the Women in “It has helped me to understand Manufacturing national association, and not react to things, to be visit womeninmanufacturing.orgc much more mindful.”

54 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 cPlant Manager Debbie Manzano is easy to spot on the Dearborn Truck Plant floor. She’s the one wearing tape over her rings to help protect the surface of the newly built Ford F-150s she often inspects. When she’s off the assembly line, Manzano supports local STEM education efforts and works with resource groups like Ford’s Women in Manufacturing on skill set development and creating advocates for women.

PHOTO BY BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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MAN ON THE MOON MEMORIALIZED In May 1961, President Kennedy laid out a bold SYMBOLS vision for America to land a man on the moon “before the decade is out.” When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did set OF THE foot on the moon within the decade — on July 20, 1969 — many people considered it America’s finest hour. SPACE AGE The historic moment was quickly memorialized Kitschy coin collectors convey Americans’ changing views on everything from of man’s ability to go where none had gone before popular magazine covers and commemorative posters that could hang on a household wall or THERE WAS A TIME when outer space The Henry Ford’s collection of space- school hall to the pictorial lunchboxes that just about themed banks, dating from 1949 to 1964, belonged to the realm of fantasy and every elementary-grade science fiction. Through movies, radio, captures the span of these two perceptions student was proud to carry. television, comic strips and comic books, of outer space — as just a fantasy world kids cheered as fantasy space heroes to being a real place into which humans like Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tom ventured. These mechanical banks, Corbett-Space Cadet safeguarded Earth’s produced by Detroit-based companies inhabitants from evil forces. Futuristic Duro Mold & Manufacturing and Astro space toys proliferated, from atomic ray Manufacturing, were offered at individual bank branches as incentives for kids to start guns and wind-up robots to toy spaceships. bank accounts. Having the branch bank’s Then something happened. The United name affixed to the front of one of these States and the Soviet Union began to futuristic coin collectors was a sure sign explore outer space for real. When the that the financial institution was modern, Russians launched Sputnik I in October progressive and in step with the times. 1957, the “space race” took off, leading to — DONNA BRADEN , SENIOR CURATOR & CURATOR a new era of more realistic space toys. OF PUBLIC LIFE

COMMEMORATIVE POSTER, “THAT’S ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND,” 1969. FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION

ONLINE For more resources documenting the American experience of innovation, ingenuity, and resourcefulness, visit thf.org/collections-and-researchc

56 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 c1) Atomic bank (c. 1949), co-opting a popular word of the Cold War era; 2) Rocket bank (c. 1951), resembling comic-book-style rockets; 3) Strato bank (c. 1953), in which the coin was shot through the “stratosphere” to the moon; 4) Guided missile bank (c. 1957), the first type made 1 by Astro; 5) Plan-It bank (c. 1959), a play on words, depicting the 7 sun surrounded by nine orbiting planets; 6) Satellite bank (c. 1961), by this time resembling a real rocket; 7) Unisphere bank (c. 1964), topped by the iconic centerpiece from the New York World’s Fair; 8) Destination moon bank (c. 1962), featuring the moon atop a realistic- looking rocket. 4

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NAME: Mary Aviles NUMBER OF YEARS AS A MEMBER: 10+ MUST-DO EVENT: Maker Faire® Detroit FAVORITE MEMBER PERK: The Henry Ford Magazine. I use it regularly until it’s dog-eared. I worked for TechTown Detroit with entrepreneurs/ small businesses and continue to do so as a consultant with EarlyWorks. For me, The Henry Ford’s Model i framework is also MEMBER an inspiration. TechTown architects use it as an SPOTLIGHT approach to client relation- ship management, and I reference the framework consulting with EarlyWorks. As a qualitative researcher specializing WHAT’S in structuring unstructured data, I am fascinated by how The Henry Ford has synthesized its collection of physical innovator YOUR assets to remain relevant in informing issues such as education, workforce and talent development — SPARK? topics I, along with my clients, are immersed in Member Mary Aviles finds inspiration in a frog, every day. two brothers and makers in the raw

DRAWN TO THE Herschell-Spillman Carousel in Greenfield Village, Mary loves hopping on the whimsical bow-tie-wearing frog. The carousel reminds her of stories shared with her children to spark their curiosity and quests for lifelong learning. She’s equally inspired each time she walks into Orville and Wilbur Wright’s family home in Greenfield Village, knowing that human progress is cumulative and many of our major leaps forward can be traced to specific moments in time. A repeat attendee at The Henry Ford’s annual Maker Faire® Detroit, she can’t wait to come back each year because she sees great beauty in Take It Forward unfinished ideas and the limitless potential of creativity in the rough. as a Member Enjoy benefits like free admission, discounts on events and tours, exclusive member PHOTO OF MARY AND SON previews and more. MATI IN THOMAS EDISON’S MENLO PARK COMPLEX BY WHAT’S YOUR SPARK? Let us know what inspires you from your visit and what takes JAMES SALESKA; CAROUSEL ONLINE thf.org/ you forward from your membership. Email us at [email protected]. BY RUDY RUZICSKA membershipc

58 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 JULY 27-28, 2019 HENRY FORD MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™

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Step into a larger-than-life LEGO® wonderland featuring 20 of the world’s most iconic and astonishing skyscrapers. Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks, a first-of-its-kind, limited-engagement exhibition, is rising up in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Let these masterpieces unleash your inspiration, choose from over 200,000 LEGO® bricks to build your own Tower of Tomorrow and contribute to the growing LEGO® metropolis.

FREE TO MEMBERS OR WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION To learn more, visit thf.org/LEGO.

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bVisitors to Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks can see previously filmed clips about the exhibition’s creation featuring certified LEGO® professional Ryan “The Brick Man” 2019 McNaught. EVENTS

60 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 Other Premier Exhibitions + Events

HENRY FORD MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INNOVATION Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds On view: Through September 2 A celebration of the Star Trek phenomenon, this FREE exhibit showcases the FOR MEMBERS enduring impact the Towers of Tomorrow with original TV series and LEGO® Bricks is free to subsequent movies members or with and spinoffs have had museum admission. on our culture.

ONLINE To learn more, visit thf.org/startrekc HENRY FORD MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INNOVATION Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks Member Preview: October 11 On view: October 12, 2019-January 5, 2020

Step into Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation this fall, and experience a larger-than- THE HENRY FORD life LEGO® wonderland featuring 20 of the world’s most iconic and astonishing skyscrapers. We’re talking Toronto’s CN Tower, New York’s Empire State Building, China’s Shanghai Tower CAMPUS ® and Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, all built at a 1:200 scale with LEGO bricks. ® Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks is a first-of-its-kind, limited-engagement exhibition Maker Faire that’s sure to unleash a bit of inspiration and a new or rekindled love for ubiquitous bricks. Detroit Explore the skyline of eye-popping towers built to scale with stunning architectural detail. Discover the design and precision it takes to build these mini modern marvels by constructing July 27-28 your own Tower of Tomorrow with the exhibit’s 200,000 loose bricks. Listen as one of the world’s The Henry Ford and 14 certified LEGO® professionals, Ryan “The Brick Man” McNaught, tells through film clips his Maker Faire® celebrate story of the challenges and accomplishments in creating the exhibit. 10 years of collabo- ration in 2019. Roll up your sleeves for ONLINE To learn more, visit thf.org/LEGOc hundreds of DIY proj- ects and see profound creations from brilliant hackers, inventors and entrepreneurs.

ONLINE To learn more, visit detroit.makerfaire.com Traveling Exhibition from Toured Internationally by Supporting Sponsor LEGO PHOTOS BY © JASON MCCARTHY, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF c AUSTRALIA; PHASER FROM THE FILM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS BY BRADY HARVEY; MAKER FAIRE® BY NICK HAGEN

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PNC Tinkering for Tots Preschool Program Artist in Residence Second Monday Civil War Robin Cass: June 4-8 of each month, Remembrance Shelley Muzylowski 10 a.m.-noon, May 25-27 Allen: July 9-13 2019 May-Oct. Open Sat. ‘til 9 p.m. Dean Allison: Aug. 13-17 EVENTS When planning a visit to The Henry Ford, give a look-see for what’s happening at GREENFIELD VILLAGE all of our signature venues, color-coded here for easy reference.

World Tournament of Historic Base Ball® Aug. 10-11 Fall Flavor Weekends 69th Annual Sept. 28-29 and Oct. 5-6 Historic Base Ball in Old Car Festival Greenfield Village is made Wright Day of possible through the Celebration Sept. 7-8 Farmers Markets generous support of Aug. 18 Open Sat. ‘til 9 p.m. Sept. 28 and Oct. 5 Cynthia and Edsel B. Ford II.

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Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds Happy Hour June 20, July 18, Aug. 15, PNC Tinkering 5-8:30 p.m. Make Something: for Tots Preschool Saturdays Program Every Saturday, Second Monday Star Trek: Invention Convention, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., of each month, Exploring U.S. Nationals Sept.-May 10 a.m.-noon, New Worlds May 30-31 Nov.-April Through Sept. 2 Presented by United Presented by Macy’s Technologies Corporation

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Mark your calendar for Avengers: double discounts on Member Endgame dining and shopping, Movie Series Showing through plus other exclusive perks just for Select Saturdays, June 9 members. 4 p.m. FREE Apollo 11: admission for members First Steps to all traditional films Summer Camps Member The Henry Ford: Throwback Opening June 10 at The Henry Ford’s June 24-28; Appreciation $5 Day Thursday Nights Giant Screen Experience July 8-12, 15-19, Days Nov. 2 Most Thursdays, (excludes Member Movie Series) 22-26 and 29- Aug. 23-25 7 p.m. In Saturn’s Rings Aug. 2; Aug. 5-9 Nov. 23-25 Made possible by thf.org/tbt Opening early Aug. the Ford Foundation

THE HENRY FORD GIANT SCREEN EXPERIENCE

62 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 Historic Base Ball Games June 8-9, 15-16 and 22-23; July 13-14, 20-21 and 27-28; Aug. 3-4 and 17-18 Salute to America featuring the Motor Muster Detroit Symphony Historic Base Ball in Greenfield Village is made possible through June 15-16 Orchestra the generous support of Open Sat. ‘til 9 p.m. July 3-6 Cynthia and Edsel B. Ford II.

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Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village Dec. 5-8, 12-15, 17-23 and 26-28 Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village Holiday Nights Supper with Santa Oct. 11-13, 17-20 and 24-27 Dec. 5-8, 12-15, 17-23 and 26-28*

Presented by Meijer Dec. 26-28 excluding Santa Hallowe’en Fairy-Tale Feast Holiday Nights Dinner Package at Eagle Tavern Oct. 11-13, 17-20 and 24-27 Dec. 5-8, 12-15, 17-23 and 26-28

Eagle Tavern Harvest Supper Holiday Nights Happy Hour Oct. 11-12, 18-19 and 25-26 Dec. 5-8, 12-15, 17-23 and 26-28

Veterans Day Nov. 11 Free admission for veterans, active-duty military personnel and their families (limit 6)

Towers of Tomorrow Members Annual Maker Faire® with LEGO® Bricks Holiday Lighting National Detroit Member Preview Ceremony Sensory- Aviation Day July 27-28 Oct. 11 Nov. 25 Friendly Aug. 18 Saturdays Open Sat. ‘til 6 p.m. Open to public Admission fee

June 22; waived courtesy Oct. 12, 2019- Visits with Santa Nov. 23 In collaboration of Delta Air Lines Jan. 5, 2020 Nov. 29-Dec. 24 with Maker Media

MOTOR MUSTER BY KMS PHOTOGRAPHY; OLD CAR FESTIVAL BY GARY MALERBA: HALLOWE’EN FREE admission for members BY ROY RITCHIE; HOLIDAY Special evening hours NIGHTS BY EE BERGER; MR. SPOCK TUNIC BY Enhanced dining options BRADY HARVEY; LEGO BY Outdoor Living Additional fee and/or advance © JAMES HORAN FOR Lab Tour Manufacturing Day reservations required SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS; FORD ROUGE FACTORY TOUR Through Sept. 28 Oct. 4 BY TEAM DETROIT All programs and dates are subject to change. For the latest updates and more information on special events and FORD ROUGE FACTORY TOUR programs, call 313.982.6001 or visit thf.org.

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aDETECTIVE CAMERA In the 1880s, taking pictures of people without their permission CONNECT involved tiny cameras poking through Curators uncover buttonholes. It was a curious connections somewhat unethical between artifacts way to collect visual data to be examined and ideas later for emerging 3 patterns of misbehavior. Detection: How do a radio MAKE THE telemetry device, a polygraph CONNECTION: and a detective camera relate? Our desire to survey and speculate about others’ misdeeds gives rise to a resourceful tactic for uncovering info incognito.

bRF RECEIVER a In the 1950s, discerning POLYGRAPH data from nuclear MACHINE AND detonations in Nevada’s ACCESSORIES KIT desert was deemed A machine manufactured hazardous to your to measure and graph health. Instead, radio a human’s fundamental telemetry devices did urge to fib was sort of the dirty work, gathering “A black box, a silver a fail — the info from the stats for radio operators body’s electrical signals tucked away on safer suitcase and an was often inaccurately ground. invisible camera. interpreted. These items, hidden MAKE THE from view, ultimately MAKE THE CONNECTION: work in the detection CONNECTION: Our desire to know of data, in hopes that in Our desire to know a what’s hidden inside truth from a lie gives a bomb’s shock the resulting patterns, rise to a resourceful wave gives rise to a we can find some attempt at reading our resourceful way to measure of evidence bodies’ responses and safely gather facts and about the world, and reactions. figures from far away. sometimes ourselves.” — Kristen Gallerneaux, curator of communications and information technology, The Henry Ford

WATCH The Detection Connect 3 video authored by Kristen Gallerneaux, curator of communications and information technology at The Henry Ford FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION thf.org/connect3/detectionc

64 JUNE-DECEMBER 2019 How to make your travel plans to The Henry Ford quick and easy

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MONTHLY EVENTS: Friday Nites Music & Foodie Rallies (June – August) Kids Days (June – August) Movies In the Parks (June – September)

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Southgate, MI Your Comfort Is Assured… • Free Deluxe Hot Breakfast Buffet • Free Wi-Fi • Indoor Swimming Pool/Sauna/ Steam Room • Large HDTVs with HD Channels

13333 Heritage Center Dr. • Complimentary breakfast • Luxury Spacious Suites with Choice of Southgate, MI 48195 • Indoor pool & fitness center 1 King or 2 Queen Beds 734.324.5800 • Business center • Free shuttle to The Henry Ford www.ihg.com with package purchase The Region’s Only Hotel with On-Site • Free parking Renewable Energy • Shuttle within 5 miles of hotel • 15 minutes from Detroit airport & downtown Detroit 18950 Northline Rd., Southgate, MI 48195 734.287.9200 • comfortsuitessouthgate.com

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n Full Hot and Cold Breakfast Buffet Included n Complimentary Shuttle Service with SOUTHGATE a Henry Ford Package Purchased n Kids 12 and Under Eat Free with BANQUET & CONFERENCE CENTER Paying Adult (Up to 4 Children) n 24/7 Airport Shuttle 17201 NORTHLINE RD., SOUTHGATE, MI n 734-283-4400 • WWW.HISOUTHGATE.COM Free Wi-Fi

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DETROIT ·Private spring-fed lake and scenic forest setting GREENFIELD ·Large private beach and lakeside trails STAY HERE. RV PARK ·Excellent boating, fishing and swimming 6680 Bunton Road Ypsilanti, MI 48197 ·Long pull-thrus and full hookups + 50 amp Holiday weekend family events PHONE 734.482.7722 · GETAWAY HERE. FAX 734.544.5907 ·Just 35 miles from Detroit attractions

With world-class gaming, dining, and entertainment — plus a Plan your trip and make reservations at www.detroitgreenfield.com luxurious hotel and spa — MotorCity Casino Hotel has all the ingredients for a great escape. Book your stay today at MotorCityCasino.com. • 20-, 30- and 50-amp RV campsites • Two beaches and three Camp Dearborn stocked fishing lakes • Heated pool with lifeguards • Laundromats • Extensive seven-day 626 acres of rolling hills, trees A MILLION MILES AWAY, recreation program and lakes that offer a wide variety RIGHT DOWN THE STREET. for kids of amenities for outdoor activities • Paddle boat rentals and Canteen food service • 27-hole championship Mystic Creek Golf Course & Banquet Center • 18-hole miniature golf course • Resort-style cabins, rustic cabins and tent rentals 1700 General Motors Rd., Milford, MI 48380 MotorCity Casino Hotel and MotorCity Casino Hotel design are trademarks of Detroit Entertainment, L.L.C. (248) 684-6000 • campdearborn.com ©2019 Detroit Entertainment, L.L.C. All rights reserved. Offer subject to change or cancellation anytime without notice.

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The Dearborn Inn puts you at a distinct advantage of being just three blocks from The Henry Ford. Built in 1931, this 23-acre colonial REVIVE THE PLEASURE retreat offers a setting reminiscent of a classic American inn, with a OF TRAVEL. AAA four-diamond rating and the level of service and amenities you expect from Marriott.

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THE DEARBORN INN, A MARRIOTT HOTEL 20301 OAKWOOD BOULEVARD DEARBORN, MICHIGAN 48124

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WESTINGHOUSE PORTABLE STEAM ENGINE NO. 345 bFrom left: Hugh McAlpine, James Gleason and Henry Ford In 1882, a 19-year-old Henry Ford encountered with the Westinghouse steam engine. This photograph was a steam engine that changed his life. Though taken in 1920 on the Ford Farm initially unsure of his abilities, he served as in Dearborn. engineer, overseeing the engine’s maintenance and safe operation for a threshing crew organized by Michigan farmer John Gleason. Ford ran the engine for a season, developing the skills of an experienced engineer. It sparked an epiphany that machines — not farming — were his future. Ford never forgot that engine. Three decades later, as head of the world’s largest automobile company, he set out to find it. Discovered in a farmer’s field in Pennsylvania, Ford purchased the engine in 1912 and had it completely rebuilt. He even ran it regularly, often in the company of James Gleason, the brother of the engine’s original owner. The Westinghouse steam engine, serial No. 345, is the first item Ford collected that remains in The Henry Ford’s collections today.

DID YOU KNOW? / The Westinghouse steam engine, serial No. 345, is currently on display in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Find it in the Agriculture: Innovations in Farming exhibition.

WESTINGHOUSE BY EE BERGER; HISTORICAL PHOTO FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION

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