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How do we do we How Student Molly Grace Deptula wears wears Deptula Grace Molly Student Band, The Bully her invention, Fitbit. from a modified prototyped 36 See Page generation? generation? Gain perspective.Gain inspired. Get Make history. unlock the next unlock the next THE INNOVATION, INVENTION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ISSUE INVENTION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP THE INNOVATION, JANUARY-MAY 2019 JANUARY-MAY MAGAZINE

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2 JANUARY-MAY 2019 MAGAZINE JANUARY-MAY 2019 Contents DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Our Mission 4 Behind the Scenes 5 18 Letter from the President 6 THE RIGHT STUFF Ask + Answer 8 Do innovators share A Word or Two 9 similar DNA? Off the Shelf 10 A Look Back 80 26 BE THE SPARK A teacher, a student INNOVATION and the designer behind the modern-day office NATION 13 cubicle demonstrate how putting their ideas into action has the INSIDE potential to change THE the world HENRY 36 FORD MIND OVER Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation 50 MATTER Greenﬁeld Village 52 Addressing educational Ford Rouge Factory Tour 54 equity is how America’s Acquisitions + Collections 56 lost Einsteins will be 2019 Events 58 found Connect 3 62

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ON THE COVER The Bully Band is a wearable device that transmits video and audio to an app made exclusively for school administrators. Developed by seventh-grader Molly Grace Deptula, it is one of hundreds of inventive ideas that were presented by young innovators at the 2018 National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo held at Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. ALBERT EINSTEIN BY ORREN JACK TURNER, COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS; GRACE MORIARTY PHOTO BY NICK HAGEN AND SEEING FOR THE BLIND BY NICK HAGEN; ACTION OFFICE I COURTESY OF HERMAN MILLER

thf.org 3 OUR MISSION Who We Are and What We Do

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 individuals William Clay Ford III of all kinds to unlock their potential and help shape a better future. George F. Francis III GENERAL INQUIRIES AND In 2018, The Henry Ford advanced its role as a catalyst for change Ralph J. Gerson GROUP RESERVATIONS in education with the acquisition of The STEMIE Coalition, a growing Christopher F. Hamp The Henry Ford affiliation of organizations dedicated to fostering innovation, invention Steven K. Hamp Contact Center John W. Ingle III 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily and entrepreneurship at the K-12 level. Through The STEMIE Coalition, Eliza Hudson Kontulis 313.982.6001 The Henry Ford hosts the National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Elizabeth Ford Kontulis RESEARCH INQUIRIES Expo and makes innovation learning curriculum accessible to educators Richard A. Manoogian 313.982.6020 and students worldwide. Hendrik Meijer Bruce Meyer research.center@thehenry For more information, please visit thf.org. 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, MI 48124. Copyright 2019. Subscription to this generation. Help us grow the talent pipeline of tomorrow’s innovators, All rights reserved. magazine is just one of inventors and entrepreneurs at thf.org/support. Reproduction in whole the many benefits of being or in part without written a member. Magazine-only The Henry Ford is an independent nonproﬁt organization. We depend on ticket permission is prohibited. subscriptions not available. purchases, income from our stores and restaurants, and tax-deductible contributions and memberships for support. To learn how your generosity can help take it forward, visit thf.org/support. DESIGN, PRODUCTION AND EDITORIAL SERVICES

248.399.1322 [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 JANUARY-MAY 2019 thf.org PB Notable Colleagues and Correspondents BEHIND THE SCENES

WHO HELPED IGNITE YOUR SPARK? Our contributors tell us.

MARILYN PRICE- ALANA SEMUELS MATT NAGER NICK HAGEN NATE KITCH MITCHELL, PH.D. David Shribman, the edi- I was lucky to have a After starting a college Artist, and my tutor, My high school teacher tor of the Pittsburgh Post- supportive family as well photography program, Sebastiane Hegarty. Judy Czarnecki Stark. Gazette. He introduced as some great mentors. my black-and-white He took everything I She sparked my interest me to journalism and My grandfather gave me darkroom professor, thought art was and in writing and journalism. convinced me to try it out my ﬁrst camera when John Ganis, noticed turned it on its head. Her friendship and — even though it meant I was in high school aspects of my work that He challenged me and support spanned her suffering through two and pushed me to be helped me understand encouraged me to be entire lifetime, always long Pittsburgh winters. creative. While studying myself better as a curious, experiment and offering words of encour- journalism in college, photographer and a simply make. I wouldn’t Alana Semuels is a staff agement that helped me I had a professor who person. As a freshman, be doing what I do now writer for The Atlantic believe in myself. pushed me technically he looked at a print without his spark. He based in San Francisco. and creatively — more I had tacked on the started the ﬁre, and I will Marilyn Price-Mitchell, She’s originally from importantly, though, wall and said, “Hmm ... forever be grateful. Ph.D., is a developmental Boston and received her he taught me the ethics maybe you’d like street psychologist, researcher undergraduate degree Nate Kitch is an award- of journalism and how photography.” That and fellow at the Institute from Harvard College winning illustrator from to be a professional. changed everything. for Social Innovation, and a master’s degree Winchester, England. Shooting on the street Fielding Graduate from the London School Matt Nager is an His work focuses on sparked my obsession University. She founded of Economics. She has editorial and advertising texture, collage and with documentary Roots of Action, a website also written for The photographer working vibrant colors and has photography, which focused on youth develop- Boston Globe, The New on commissioned and been featured in books, eventually led to my ment, and is a contributor York Times, Los Angeles personal projects in his magazines and, recently, career as an editorial to Psychology Today and Times and Pittsburgh native state of Colorado. theater posters. He has portrait and documentary Edutopia. The focus of her Post-Gazette. More about His work centers around clients from around photographer. research is positive youth Alana can be found at the relationship between the world, such as The development, innovation alanasemuels.com. people and the land Nick Hagen is a freelance International New York and youth civic engage- where they live. His work portrait and documentary Times, Harper’s and Mind Over Matter, ment. She is author of Page 36 has appeared in national photographer based in Libération. He also Tomorrow’s Change and international Detroit. His work has regularly contributes Makers: Reclaiming publications, including been commissioned to The Guardian and the Power of Citizenship The New York Times by a wide variety The Economist. If he’s for a New Generation. Magazine, Fast Company, of magazines and not making art, he’s The Right Stuff, Men’s Journal, Mother newspapers nationally probably making pasta. Jones, Smithsonian and internationally, such Page 18 Be the Spark, and Time. as The New York Times, Page 26 The Telegraph and The Right Stuff, Page 18 The Washington Post. Be the Spark, Page 26 Mind Over Matter, Page 36

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PB JANUARY-MAY 2019 thf.org 5 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Casual Thoughts and Serious Correspondence

Late last year, The Henry Ford introduced a $150 million comprehensive fundraising campaign to help launch the workforce of tomorrow.

Why? Because at The Henry Ford we believe Another early success of the campaign was that access to the ideas and innovations that the recent acquisition of The STEMIE Coalition, have shaped our country should be available to a nonprofit global consortium of invention everyone, regardless of backgrounds and barriers. education stakeholders and education change We want to aggressively and intentionally leverage agents best known for its National Invention our unique assets, both physically and digitally, to Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo, which educate, influence and inspire tomorrow’s leaders. we hosted in June 2018, connecting more than Our campaign, called The Innovation Project, 400 students from 21 states to our collection. will help us do just that by providing the resources The museum is now the permanent home of necessary to build The Henry Ford’s digital and the convention going forward. experiential learning tools, reimagine existing In 2019, we will also kick off the William Davidson exhibitions and programs, and create new Initiative for Entrepreneurship, which includes opportunities to advance innovation, invention comprehensive entrepreneurial programming and entrepreneurship. All of this with the ultimate that will allow The Henry Ford to test and explore goal of unlocking the most powerful resource on multiple learning platforms designed to help earth: the next generation. launch our next generation of entrepreneurs. This At the end of last year, we had already raised initiative is a game changer aimed at engaging more than $91 million toward our goal. current and future innovators and will include the Over the course of the next five years, the launch of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program, work of The Innovation Project campaign will related workshops, expanded youth programming, positively impact all of our venues. You will compelling speaker series and much more. see future exhibitions connected to six differ- The Henry Ford has the unique assets, the ent areas of innovation (design and making, legacy and the proven track record to make mobility, social transformation, power and The Innovation Project campaign impactful energy, information and communication, and long into the future. We are pleased to have agriculture and the environment), along with already made so much progress, but there more connected learning platforms across The is more to do! We need your help. Henry Ford campus. This project even equates Please enjoy this issue of The Henry Ford to creating additional physical workspaces and Magazine. We hope it will help you gain a better centers on campus focused on entrepreneurial understanding of the core habits and actions learning and the inclusion of internships, resi- often associated with people who innovate, as dence programs and large-scale youth inven- well as provide a clearer picture of some of the tion conventions on-site, plus related town halls, economic and educational equity challenges guest speaker series and more content on The we face as a nation if we want to build a healthy, Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation as well as our creative workforce for the future. Then visit new television show, Did I Mention Invention? our new comprehensive campaign website, Already, we have realized enhancements theinnovationproject.org, to learn more about made to Heroes of the Sky in Henry Ford The Innovation Project. We want YOU to be a Museum of American Innovation, courtesy of part of our future and join this movement — Delta Air Lines, and the openings of the new this “learning revolution” — to provide equal Davidson-Gerson Gallery of Glass in Greenfield and unfettered access to the collection, PHOTO BY ROY RITCHIE Village and the Davidson-Gerson Modern programs, exhibitions, activities and STEM- Glass Gallery in the museum. Most recently, based learning curriculum that will help us we introduced Model I, our learning framework grow the workforce of tomorrow. that will serve as the cornerstone for a new Your belief in The Henry Ford and its PATRICIA E. MOORADIAN, innovation curriculum and other invention mission means so much. Thank you for PRESIDENT AND CEO education initiatives we hope educators across your continued support. the world will adopt and participate in.

6 JANUARY-MAY 2019 thf.org 7 TALENT PIPELINE EXPOSURE

POTENTIAL

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

DIVERSITY INCLUSION DIGITAL LEARNING

INVENT

INNOVATION GENERATION

SOCIAL INNOVATION

ACCESSIBILITY

The Henry Ford has the six connected areas of 1 Create a pipeline The Innovation opportunity to become innovation; and advance for a diverse new a force for change. innovation, invention and economy workforce Through the lens of entrepreneurial learning. 2 Extend inspiration to Project accessible, inclusive Campaign efforts include all audiences learning, it will accelerate within the scope of The Priorities its digitization efforts Innovation Project will 3 Increase personal and develop digital pursue three key funding potential and Three pathways to impact learning tools; foster priorities, where The lifelong learning experiential learning in Henry Ford aims to: opportunities

For details on specific programs and initiatives comprising The Innovation Project, visit theinnovationproject.org.

6 JANUARY-MAY 2019 thf.org 7 ASK + ANSWER Questions and Replies About Today’s Trends, Talk

PHOTO BY EE BERGER ASK: The Innovation Project — Why Now?

ANSWER: As a nation, our innovation potential a call to action, a direct response to the PATRICIA E. is vital — and at risk. Today, business leaders and growing need to equip the next generation MOORADIAN, president and CEO workplaces across the nation are struggling to with the tools needed to be successful. The campaign’s core learning initiatives of The Henry Ford, fill key positions, not able to find people who are shares why it’s the have the capacity to help The Henry Ford using their creativity, imagination and problem- right time to launch provide educators and students, regardless solving skills to their greatest potential. The Innovation Project of backgrounds and barriers, access to unique campaign. At The Henry Ford, we believe every child content, ideas and programs, as well as arm them should have the opportunity to realize their with the real-world skills they need to narrow the potential. The Innovation Project campaign is talent gap and nurture the future talent pipeline.

ONLINE For details on speciﬁc programs and initiatives comprising The Innovation Project, go to theinnovationproject.orgc

8 JANUARY-MAY 2019 thf.org PB Defining People, Places, Pastimes A WORD OR TWO

Confidence Accidents (KON-FI-DUHNS) N. (AK-SI-DUHNT-S) N. When kids are When savvy scientists encouraged to make a big blunder, channel their own unforeseen positives inner certitude when often float up from tackling conundrums, underneath the failure. a belief in oneself as PAGE 62 an agent of change starts to take shape. PAGE 42 Genius (JEEN-YUH-S) N. Serial When H.J. Heinz, a (SEER-EE-UH-L) ADJ. young forward-thinker Hub bottling condiments When young minds in his mom’s kitchen, are taught to think, (HUHB) N. unleashes his bottled- risk, repeat, think, risk, When that certain up business acumen, repeat, they are setting someone who a smart portfolio of themselves up to be captured light to products, packaging, lifelong changemakers illuminate communities placement and PR instead of one-hit creates a center that propels his food brand wonders. concentrates on to become one of our PAGE 50 sentiments of best loved. innovation, invention PAGE 80 and entrepreneurship, it quickly leads to forward movement in our country’s creativity, commerce and commodities. PAGE 52 3 Disrupt (DIS-RUHPT) V. When go-getters feeling stifled by the 10 FOR 10 2 Thomas Edison: 6 Luther Burbank: status quo opt to cause The Henry Ford’s Phonograph, Luther Burbank a bit of organized collections include Menlo Park Complex, Garden Ofﬁce, hundreds of artifacts Greenfield Village Porches & Parlors, chaos, creativity in Greenfield Village the marketplace often and stories behind some 3 Dan Gurney: 1967 of America’s most well- comes next. Ford Mark IV Race Car, 7 The Wright Brothers: known and under-the- Driving America, Wright Cycle Shop, PAGE 19 radar serial innovators Henry Ford Museum of Main Street, and inventors. Here are American Innovation Greenfield Village people and 10 assets, 4 George Washington 8 Steve Wozniak: one attached to each — Carver: Microscope, Apple 1 Computer, all waiting to be explored Agriculture, Henry Ford 1976, Digital Collections, at The Henry Ford or Museum of American thf.org through its digital Innovation collections at thf.org. 9 Buckminster Fuller: 5 Charles & Ray Dymaxion House, 1 Henry Ford: Eames: Eames Chair Henry Ford Museum of “Kitchen Sink” Engine, Prototype, Fully American Innovation 1893, Driving America, Furnished, Henry Ford 10 H.J. Heinz: Heinz Henry Ford Museum of Museum of American American Innovation House, Main Street, Innovation Greenfield Village

HENRY J. HEINZ AND 1967 FORD MARK IV RACE CAR FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION

PB JANUARY-MAY 2019 thf.org 9 OFF THE SHELF Recommended Films, Fine Reads and Dot-coms

Carol Kendra VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, What are STRATEGIC GROWTH & ENGAGEMENT The Henry Ford

we reading + This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know watching? edited by John Brockman As a curious learner, I have found This Idea Is Brilliant not only to be enlightening but fun. Based on lost, overlooked and Death in Paradise underappreciated scientific concepts LUCIE HOWELL, CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER everyone should know, each chapter presents a different scientific concept AT THE HENRY FORD, SHARES HOW A QUIRKY authored by a subject matter expert who CRIME SHOW ON NETFLIX CAN HELP US provides background, case studies and ALL PRACTICE AND IMPROVE OUR PROBLEM- other intriguing contexts to ponder. SOLVING SKILLS. Whether it’s learning about fallibilism (the idea that we can never be 100- What makes for a good murder fictional Caribbean island of percent certain and must therefore mystery? Well, for someone who Saint Marie, the show has a gecko always be open to the possibility that we’re wrong) or understanding the origins grew up with Agatha Christie’s as one of its core characters — and modern incarnation of naive realism Miss Marple and Poirot, it needs and as such does not take itself (the obscure scientific term about why to have: too seriously. And it’s this light- we see most other people as unintelligent (1) An intriguing whodunit or heartedness that helps the howdunit mystery that keeps or crazy), it just might challenge you to formulaic approach of the collaborate more, see things in new ways you curious program and makes for perfect (2) A smart yet slightly quirky lead or encourage you to stop looking at your Sunday afternoon binge-watching. investigator who challenges rules phone for all the answers. The eclectic mix of British, (3) A group of mediocre misfits Worth the read no matter what the order French, American and Caribbean who somehow excel as a of chapters, This Idea Is Brilliant proves accents, the sunshine, the aqua collaborative team, with science cannot only unblind you, but can (4) Just enough potential blue water and the brightly clarify your direction and even inspire you. suspects to keep you failing colored flora and fauna transport in your guessing. you to a carefree world where the Ellice Engdahl Death in Paradise, a British- only problem you must solve is MANAGER, DIGITAL COLLECTIONS & CONTENT French crime drama that has just that of a murdered body. The Henry Ford released season seven on Netflix, Time to put your ingenious has all these key components, hat on, engage those problem- Wade in the Water plus a few more. Based in the solving habits and play detective. by Tracy K. Smith This new collection of poems from the U.S. poet laureate, Tracy K. Smith, doesn’t “I hope you have as flinch in its examination of difficult topics of discourse in today’s America: race, much fun putting your gender, immigration and environmental contamination, among them. problem-solving skills “Erasure” poems take primary documents (including the Declaration to work as I did watching of Independence and letters from slaveholders) and remove certain words, Death in Paradise.” introducing an uncomfortable new perspective to the reader. Other poems — Lucie Howell use the words of historical African- Americans and Smith herself to examine events in the news in thoughtful, revealing ways — and in the context of history.

10 JANUARY-MAY 2019 INNOVATION, INVENTION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Benson Ford Research Center is a notable hub for artifacts, articles and everything in between that touches on ideas, people and places related to innovation, invention and entrepreneurship. For help with access, write to [email protected].

Philip Grumm BOOKS MANAGER OF INNOVATION & Pioneers and Plodders: The American INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING Entrepreneurial Spirit by Robert Baron The Henry Ford Inventors at Work: Interviews with 16 Notable American Inventors by Kenneth Brown How I Built This The Whiz Kids: Ten Founding Fathers of NPR podcast with host Guy Raz American Business and the Legacy They Left Us by John Byrne As host Guy Raz sits down to talk with They Made America: From the Steam Engine to innovators and entrepreneurs from some the Search Engine, Two Centuries of Innovators of the world’s best-known companies, it by Harold Evans becomes clear that this isn’t your typical Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in interview. What unfolds are embarrassing America by Anne MacDonald and laugh-out-loud stories about At Work with Thomas Edison: 10 Business Lessons from America’s Greatest Innovator overcoming humble origins, low points by Blaine McCormick and countless obstacles along their own DID YOU KNOW? / innovation journeys. In 2016, How I Built This COLLECTIONS It’s the perfect podcast for my commute, was named one of the top • Accession 655 – George Washington Carver 10 podcasts of the year by Laboratory Reports, 1943-1946 but, more importantly, it provides a realistic iTunes, and Inc. Magazine • Accession 89.177 – Herman Miller Collection and meaningful perspective for anyone who called it “the best podcast might be looking to build their own “This.” to take on the new year.” • Accession 2001.74 – Raymond Loewy Collection, 1956-1974 • Accession 1751 – Suzanne Vanderbilt Papers, 1958-1986 • Accession 53.41 – Heinz Company Records

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TAKE A LOOK INSIDE THE HENRY FORD’S INNOVATION NATION TV SERIES

INNOVATION NATION An Emmy® Award-winning TV show that airs Saturday mornings on CBS presents inspiring stories that showcase present-day changemakers and the possibilities for future progress. Each episode of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation shares dramatic accounts of the world’s greatest inventions — and the perseverance, passion and price required to bring them to life.

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SEASON 5 EPISODE 109 THF MagazinecHow did this idea come about? HernandezcOn our way to school every day, there was a small bridge where we would see homeless people, and we noticed that A HOME the number of people was increasing. When we were asked to create a project that helped solve a community problem, we decided that homelessness was something we saw growing WITH in our community and it was something not many people were focusing on. We wanted to change the homeless condition. People take HEART having a roof over their head for granted. High school students’ thoughtful THF MagazinecWhat makes your tent invention helps shelter the homeless different than a common camping tent? SalazarcAlong with being portable and water resistant, it has a solar-powered When high school girls in San to code. The girls experimented box that lights the tent and powers a USB Fernando, California, were asked with soldering. Some took up charging port while sanitizing the tent with to identify and solve a problem as sewing, along with other skills they UVC light. It is made out of a special fabric part of a project with a nonprofit never thought they would ever that fends off extreme weather conditions. called DIY Girls, they decided to explore. The DIY Girls Inventeam’s At night, the solar-powered box can charge make lots of careful observations end invention: a solar-powered tent a phone. It also has dual-layered, breathable before going gangbusters creating for the homeless that folds up into mesh doors on both sides of the tent something. The group quickly a nifty backpack. with zippers. It is easily assembled and honed in on the area’s growing The Henry Ford Magazine shares a disassembled for carrying. homeless community and its bit more of the story behind the tent inherent need for comfort and that appeared on The Henry Ford’s THF MagazinecDo you have a patent safety. As the young would-be Innovation Nation this season and for your tent? engineers talked to people at what motivated two of its teenage HernandezcWe are working on pursuing shelters to better understand innovators, America Hernandez and one. We want to mass-produce our tent and immediate needs, their idea of a Kassandra Salazar, former seniors distribute it to the homeless for free. That home for the homeless began to at San Fernando High School and was our original target with this project, take shape. The group learned how members of the DIY Girls Inventeam. and it continues to be our goal. THF MagazinecYou built your tent as part of DIY Girls. What is it? HernandezcDIY Girls is a nonprofit that DID YOU KNOW? / encourages girls to take more math and science Since starting in 2012, courses and pursue careers in STEM. more than 2,000 girls (5th-12th graders) in the THF MagazinecDid that happen for Los Angeles area have you as part of DIY Girls and designing joined the nonproﬁt DIY Girls, which is changing your tent? Are you pursuing careers the way girls perceive in STEM ﬁelds? careers in technology HernandezcAfter creating the tent, and engineering. Of the students involved in DIY I am much more confident in my ideas and Girls, 97 percent want to outspoken about them. I’m also going into continue participating in civil engineering and want to have my own STEM activities. construction company one day. Even start diygirls.org a project where I can take part in building affordable housing for low-income families. PHOTO COURTESY OF LITTON ENTERTAINMENT SalazarcBuilding our tent, we bumped into a lot of obstacles and always found a way to either go around it or work through it. That helped me not only with this project but with other things in my life. Now I want to go into WATCH The segment mechanical engineering. My biggest goal is thf.org/explore/innovation-nation/ to become an astronaut. episodes/sunray-artc

14 JANUARY-MAY 2019 High schoolers Kassandra Salazar (left) and America Hernandez are two of the architects and engineers behind a solar-powered tent for the homeless. The girls helped create the portable shelter as part of a problem-solving project with nonproﬁt DIY Girls.

INNOVATION to work with The Henry Ford to produce such an important play for young audiences. I hope Innovation NATION Nation Live! will inspire young people to be the EXPANDS innovators and visionaries of tomorrow.” The 2018-19 season of Patricia E. Mooradian, president and CEO of The Henry Ford’s The Henry Ford, couldn’t agree more, adding that Innovation Nation marked The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation TV show is one the debut of a live stage of several educational experiences that can help version of the Emmy students identify habits and actions of innovators Award-winning TV show. and understand The Henry Ford’s new Model I In addition, a youth- framework (see story on Page 24). “Our television specific spinoff, called series inspires viewers on a weekly basis with the Did I Mention Invention? stories of innovation, creative problem-solving DIY GIRLS COURTESY OF LITTON with host Alie Ward (above at left), also premiered in ENTERTAINMENT; ALIE WARD BY fall 2018 on The CW Network. It shares fascinating and a can-do spirit that fuels the determination KMS PHOTOGRAPHY stories of invention while shining a light on everyday to make a difference in our lives and in the world,” innovators young and old. said Mooradian. “We’re thrilled we can take that Created and produced by the Chicago-based inspiration and re-create it for the stage for Griffin Theatre Company, Innovation Nation Live!, audiences across the country.” the stage adaptation of The Henry Ford’s popular For more information about Innovation Nation TV show, is on a national tour. Like the TV series, it is Live! visit griffintheatre.com/the-henry-fords designed to inspire young people with entertaining -innovation-nation-live. Check out programming and and educational stories about yesterday and today’s schedule information for Did I Mention Invention? visionaries and innovators. Said Griffin’s artistic with Alie Ward at facebook.com/CWInventionTV director, William Massolia, “The Griffin is thrilled or onemagnificentmorning.com.

thf.org 15 INNOVATION NATION IDEAS IN ACTION A sampling of cool inventions and crazy notions

PROBLEM: PROBLEM: Toxic spills tainting Stinky bacteria bumming cEaston LaChappelle our waters in your bag and his low-cost 3D-printed robotic SOLUTION: SOLUTION: replacement arm Squeeze a super sponge Tote a tote that outs PHOTO COURTESY and save the day the odors OF MICROSOFT SOAK IT UP WIPE OUT Oil spills and the habitat UNWANTED WHIFFS havoc they wreak make Sweaty clothes in your gym most people cringe. Meet bag leaking unpleasant PROBLEM: the sea’s newest superhero, odors into your workspace? Prosthetics cost the Oleo Sponge. The A group of gadget-loving a pretty penny brainchild of Argonne science guys, including Ray SOLUTION: Learn about these National Laboratory’s Seth Edwards and Tim Offutt, great ideas in action Darling, Jeffrey Elam and pondered this problem and 3D-print a robotic and much more on their team, this super- have produced the Paqsule replacement The Henry Ford’s soaker-upper sponge is Innovation Nation self-cleaning gym tote to ARMED AND READY with Mo Rocca on extra-absorbent, embedded stymie the stink. Using Easton LaChappelle has Saturday mornings with environmentally activated oxygen and UV been building artificial arms during CBS’ block friendly tech set up to LED lights, the bag is good of educational since the ripe old age of programming called sop up spills on and for 17,000 compartment 14. Now in his early 20s, he CBS Dream Team... below the water’s surface. cleanings. Just zip it up, is sharing his passion for It’s Epic. Check your Resembling a textured press a button and it zaps producing problem-solving local listings. wool blanket, the Oleo is offending odor-causing prosthetic prototypes reusable after a wringing, compounds right out of with powerhouses like and the oil squeezed out your workout wear, leaving Microsoft. LaChappelle can be salvaged, saved and them smelling a lot less and Microsoft’s advanced used for something else. offensive. Each cleaning is prototyping manager anl.gov/tcp/oleo-sponge controlled with an app on recently fitted a preteen your smartphone, with each amputee with a robotic cycle removing 99 percent yet very realistic right arm, of microorganisms from complete with fingernails the bag’s contents. to polish, that only weighs getpaqtech.com a pound. Using low-cost 3D scanners, software and a network of 3D printers, the WATCH thf.org/innovation prosthetic that should cost -nation/food-huggersc a pretty penny (upwards of $100,000) has a price NOW ON DVD tag far less than half that Innovation (approximately $4,000). Nation unlimitedtomorrow.com SEASON TWO WATCH thf.org/innovation -nation/solar-grillc Seasons One and Two thf.org/innovation WATCH are available only at -nation/artiﬁcial thf.org/shop and PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK -arm-inventorc The Henry Ford LOPEZ, ARGONNE NATIONAL gift stores. LABORATORY

16 JANUARY-MAY 2019 Moving ahead

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THOMAS EDISON AND TEST TUBE OF EDISON’S LAST BREATH (OPPOSITE PAGE) FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION

18 JANUARY-MAY 2019 As inventor Thomas Edison lay dying in 1931, his son Charles noticed several test tubes near his father’s bedside and had a peculiar idea. Immediately after his dad’s passing, Charles asked the The doctor on hand to meticulously seal the tubes. Was Charles actually trying to capture Edison’s Right last breath? Did he believe scientists would someday discover what made his father so uniquely talented? Would researchers be able to isolate the genetic DNA of innovative people? We have long wondered if innovation and entrepreneurship emerged from biological traits or through core abilities nurtured in homes and Stuff schools. The role of parents, educators and mentors in developing young people who are curious enough to uncover connections, clarify Do innovators share problems, take risks and design new solutions is a topic that intrigues me as a social researcher. similar DNA? Thomas Edison was a mentor to Henry Ford. To honor their friendship, Charles presented a tube of his father’s “last breath” to Ford. By Marilyn Price-Mitchell, Ph.D. Today, that tube resides in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation as a poignant reminder that the men and women who disrupt the world with innovative change are mere mortals.c

DID YOU KNOW? / Charles Edison wrote that during his father’s last illness, “... there was a rack of eight empty test tubes close to his bedside. They were from his workbench in the Chemical Room at the Laboratory in West Orange. Though he is mainly remembered for his work in electrical ﬁelds, his real love was chemistry. It is not strange, but symbolic, that those test tubes were close to him at the end.”

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Most 21st-century scholars agree his entire community. Wagner that innovators and entrepreneurs attributed much of his success are shaped through a combination to his learning experiences and of nature and nurture. Studies of supportive adults. He overcame identical twins suggest that about challenges, like how to lead others “Positive one-third of creative thinking older than himself, through the abilities come from genetics and encouragement of his mentor, reinforcement, two-thirds from learning. The exact a Junior ROTC commander. science is not as important as the He stumbled, learned from over time, was knowledge that the environments failure, questioned processes and in which young people learn, and experimented with new ideas and a building the mentors who support them behavior. Wagner embraced ROTC in the learning process, have a values that included respect for profound impact on the future of others, service to community, block that social and technological change. integrity and courage. I was curious to hear Wagner’s insights nine years helped build AN INNOVATOR’S JOURNEY later in his role as technological Pascal Wagner, 27, is CEO of entrepreneur. In a recent interview, my momentum Walkthrough, an entrepreneurial he reflected on what contributed startup that is revolutionizing to his development. and motivation the U.S. real estate market with “It was small learning steps a groundbreaking platform that that mattered most,” he said. to succeed.” enables you to create high-end “Positive reinforcement, over — Pascal Wagner still photography and marketing time, was a building block that materials with a smartphone. In the helped build my momentum and four short years between college motivation to succeed.” and becoming CEO of a growing We talked about the five company, Wagner started and failed “discovery skills” of entrepreneurs at developing his first software outlined in the book, The Innovator’s business, traveled the globe with DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of NIGHT OWLS VS. EARLY BIRDS his second e-commerce business, Disruptive Innovators. Wagner While it’s often said that the early bird authored a best-selling book and agreed that the skills of associating, gets the worm, when it comes to being became a real estate investor. questioning, observing, networking inherently innovative, several studies To most, Wagner embraces and experimenting were critical show that night owls might have the the idea of what it means to be for innovation. advantage. Researchers at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, an innovator. What was it about “Those abilities emerge through Italy, have found that evening-oriented Wagner’s education and upbringing forming habits of thinking over people are more creative than their that gave him the mindset and many years,” Wagner said. “My morning and intermediate counterparts. abilities to think outside the box parents made me pay for what As the study’s lead author, professor and accomplish big goals? I wanted. I had to figure out the Marina Giampietro, explained, being in a I first interviewed Wagner in process of setting goals and how nocturnal environment “may encourage 2009 when he graduated from to earn money creatively.” the development of a nonconventional high school. I was studying the Wagner also reflected on adults spirit and of the ability to find alternative life stories of young people who outside his family who fostered and original solutions.” were making a difference in their his learning. He still insisted, communities. Wagner was one of “My JROTC mentor had an those engaged and committed extraordinary impact on my life. SKILLS CRITICAL FOR INNOVATION kids. He liked doing hands-on He taught me how to understand work, like roadside cleanups people’s motivations. That was ASSOCIATING and canned food drives — key for me.” QUESTIONING “stuff where you actually see Today, Wagner is a mentor to improvement,” he said. other young entrepreneurs. “I ask OBSERVING Wagner began doing small them how and why they want to be NETWORKING projects. Before long, he was heard,” he said. “Then I help them leading collective efforts to help build on their strengths.”c EXPERIMENTING

READ The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensenc

20 JANUARY-MAY 2019 c Twentysomething Pascal Wagner could easily be categorized as a born-and-bred serial innovator. He has already experienced the startup and failure of a software business, authored a book and created a technology platform that is taking the real estate market by storm. He credits his entrepreneurial mindset to his upbringing, education and mentorship outside the home.

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THE POWER OF MENTORSHIP Gardner believes we must look Wagner encourages others to follow at our roles and responsibilities their dreams in much the same more broadly. For example, not only way he was encouraged by his must young people see themselves mentor and how Henry Ford was through the eyes of an individual Why is encouraged by Thomas Edison. career, they must think: “I’m a In my research, all 22 young citizen. I live in a community. I live mentoring so people whose life stories I studied in a region. I live in the world.” acknowledged the transformative He says that young adults powerful? power of being mentored and must think about the rights and supported by a nonparent adult responsibilities that go with these during a critical time of personal roles, particularly when something Because it development. that is spoken or invented can be Why is mentoring so powerful? sent at lighting speeds around the promotes Because mentoring helps children world. In this global society, learning believe in themselves. Stanford that fuels social and technological self-efﬁcacy. professor and psychologist innovation can be anywhere — in Albert Bandura first described classrooms, at home, on the internet the concept of “self-efficacy” and in out-of-school activities. Stanford professor emeritus and psychologist and defined it as a belief in one’s What these environments have Albert Bandura labels self-efficacy as a belief in capability to accomplish goals that in common is an ability to foster one’s capability to accomplish goals that influence influence the events in one’s life. attributes in children that go beyond the events in one’s life. Bandura identifies four According to Bandura, self- a grade or test score — to help sources of efficacy beliefs. efficacy is a determining factor kids see connections, ask different MASTERY EXPERIENCES in how we feel, think, behave and questions and use feedback to test Doing something with great success is a big motivate ourselves in the world. assumptions and solutions. boost to our sense of self-efficacy. He maintained that when people There is no singular personality VICARIOUS EXPERIENCES type, biological DNA, ethnicity believe in themselves, they take When we see someone who is just like us work positive actions on their own or income level attributed to hard and succeed at something, it builds our behalf and approach life as a people who become innovators. belief that we’ve also got what it takes to challenge to be mastered. The life stories of diverse young master the task. Simply put, good mentors changemakers, however, suggest develop self-efficacy in the a set of shared cognitive, social VERBAL PERSUASION Words of encouragement from people who matter people they mentor. One of my and emotional DNA that is nurtured to us can persuade us to believe we’ve got what it through positive relationships and research participants said it well: takes to get things done. Plus, we are more apt to “I had to believe in myself before learning. These shared attributes put in the effort even when the going gets tough. I could believe that I could change include curiosity, resilience, the world.” resourcefulness, creativity, EMOTIONAL & PHYSIOLOGICAL STATES empathy, self-awareness, integrity The way we’re feeling about ourselves, our lives and EDUCATING FOR INNOVATION and sociability. the things around us can affect how we judge our Harvard professor and psychologist Together, these are internal self-efficacy. Depressed? Convinced we can’t do anything right. In love? Ready to conquer the world. Howard Gardner sees today’s world drivers of innovation and life of globalization very differently success. The ability to disrupt the from the world in which most adults world with innovation is not about RESEARCH Self-efﬁcacy by Stanford professor and were educated. “People have to what is inside our breath; it is about psychologist Albert Bandurac have minds,” he said, “that are what is inside our being. Each of disciplined, capable of synthesis, us has the potential to create and l creative, respectful and ethical.” contribute to the world around us. ON + HEN DIS RY E FO S R A D M + O ALL CH | H H A A B T S R | R L N E Y A E S E M R

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22 JANUARY-MAY 2019 BE SUPPORTIVE SET HIGH FOSTER SELF Good mentors support EXPECTATIONS DECISION-MAKING HOW TO and encourage young Mentors help youth set Mentors do not judge people as they struggle high expectations for or impose their own to overcome obstacles themselves by gently beliefs on young people. BE A GOOD and solve problems. pushing young people Instead, they remind They stand beside youth, out of their comfort youth who they are and MENTOR reminding them of their zones and helping them help them believe they innate value. imagine what they have the insights to Successful students and innovators are mentored can accomplish. make good choices. by teachers, family members, colleagues, civic BE AN ACTIVE leaders, clergy and others who care enough LISTENER BE AUTHENTIC AND LEND YOUR to help young people believe in themselves. Effective mentors listen RESPECTFUL PERSPECTIVE Research shows that mentors help youth first and speak last. They Authentic interest in a When obstacles grow in confidence, improve goal attainment help young people feel young person’s life is key seem overwhelming, and increase abilities to overcome work/life heard and understood to a positive mentoring mentors help young challenges. Here are six qualities, gleaned from by listening deeply, even relationship. Mentors people put challenges college students, that make a good mentor. when not obligated to value and respect young in perspective and do so. people’s ideas and honor facilitate their ability their changing feelings. to see all sides of a situation.

DID YOU KNOW? / The Henry Ford’s Youth Mentorship Program (YMP) offers at-risk teens the opportunity to develop life and work skills on-site at The Henry Ford while earning additional credits in high school. YMP was founded in 1990 as a collaboration with Wayne-Westland Community Schools and has had 296 student participants.

Henry Ford and his mentor, Thomas Edison (far left). FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION

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A Journey

in Learning ™ THE HENRY FORD DEVELOPS MODEL I FRAMEWORK TO UNLEASH EVERYONE’S POTENTIAL TO INNOVATE

Announced in early 2018, Model I is a unique learning framework based on artifacts and stories in The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation. It’s helping The Henry Ford launch a movement to inspire educators to help shape a new generation of innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs. “With Model I, we are applying a working framework to the idea that the ability to innovate is in all of us,” said Lucie Howell, chief learning officer at The Henry Ford. OF INNOVATION ACTIONS “That there is a common language for understanding innovation that draws on insights from The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation and our study of how people innovate.” Those studies have empowered The Henry Ford to outline its own set of actions and habits of an innovator and create a universal language for the teaching and learning of innovation that can be applied at every stage of the talent pipeline. Added Howell, “Learning shouldn’t have to come from a specific standpoint or only for a certain discipline. Model I is a tool that speaks to the history or English teacher just as well as it does to the science or math educator. It gives you the framework to connect experiences in our museum with experiences in the classroom. It’s all about providing the ™ opportunities to educators and learners to make a conscious choice to practice and activate these habits and actions, and realize that innovation is a journey not a process.”

ONLINE Guide learners through their own innovation journeys using The Henry Ford’s new Innovate curriculum. This series of online courses introduces the Model I framework using stories of innovators past and present through videos, interactive activities, artifact cards and more. Learn more at thehenryford.org/educationc

ONLINE To learn more about HABITS OF AN INNOVATOR The Henry Ford’s Model I learning framework, visit thf.org/modelic

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There is no singular personality type, biological DNA, ethnicity or income level attributed to people who become innovators. The life stories of diverse young changemakers, however, suggest a set of shared cognitive, social and emotional DNA that is nurtured through positive relationships and learning. These shared attributes include curiosity, resilience, resourcefulness, creativity, empathy, self-awareness, integrity and sociability.

thf.org 25 BE THE SPARK A teacher, a student and the designer behind the modern-day ofﬁce cubicle demonstrate how putting ideas into action has the potential to change the world

Most risk takers, innovators and entrepreneurs generations that the world should not go probably can recall the moment the big idea without (see Letter from the President on Page 6). that set their future in motion first struck. The three profiles that follow — one historical, Now, The Henry Ford is committed through two modern-day — not only showcase its comprehensive campaign, The Innovation the individuals who have the spark but the Project, to be a force for fueling that people who are often behind those sparks — spirit of American innovation, invention the mentors, the encouragers, the guides. and entrepreneurship — a leader dedicated Those passionate about giving others the to inspiring the great ideas of the next opportunity to realize their potential.

Photos by Nick Hagen (unless otherwise noted)

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PROFESSION: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER LAMB INNOVATION: GETS STUDENTS WHO NEVER WANT TO GET INVOLVED EAGER TO GET INVOLVED ATTRIBUTES: RISK TAKER, RULE BREAKER, FEARLESS COLLABORATOR

28 JANUARY-MAY 2019 TEACHERS ARE TASKED TO BLEND based on the artifacts and stories TECHNOLOGY WITH TEACHING in The Henry Ford Archive of EVERY DAY. BUT THERE ARE A American Innovation, for digital team-teaching between their SELECT FEW WHO ARE ADDING second- and fourth-grade classes. TRUE INNOVATION INSIDE THE “(Mrs. Lamb) is one of those CLASSROOM. RACHEL LAMB IS teachers who loves teaching and ONE OF THEM. helping kids grow … She got the Lamb, 34, started as an elemen- students involved who were never tary teacher in Albuquerque, involved,” said Marie Alarid, whose New Mexico, 11 years ago. She daughter is a former student of has considerable experience working Lamb. “She made learning fun and with children from a variety of exposed them to a variety of things backgrounds, some challenging. outside the regular school day.” According to Lamb, her own Lamb said that sharing knowledge upbringing is what makes her more digitally between different elemen- open to exploring new learning tech- tary grades at different schools niques to help discover what makes “has a profound effect on student learning.” She further added: “The her students tick. Her mother, a second-graders actually taught Teacher Innovator product of missionary parents, grew the fourth-graders a few things.” up living on reservations and was Awards Always focused on the next a teacher who liked to push bound- big idea, Lamb recently exposed The Teacher Innovator Awards, sponsored by aries. Her father, a member of the not only her students but her The Henry Ford and Litton Entertainment, the Navajo Nation, taught his daughter entire community to another producers of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, early on that you can climb out of bit of educational tech. She recognizes teachers who inspire their students to a disadvantaged background. be bold and think creatively, who are resourceful made a request to Tinybop, the “My dad was born on a dirt floor and who make a positive impact on those around company behind The Human Body in a hogan [a Navajo structure them, from their students to their community. educational science app, asking Each year, 10 grand prize winners enjoy an made of wooden poles covered if she could translate the app into with tree bark and mud]. He had all-expenses-paid trip to The Henry Ford for an Navajo as part of a collaborative immersive experience, including an introduction eight siblings, grew up with no language exercise between her to innovation curricula, such as The Henry Ford’s electricity or running water. He students and the local community. Model I framework, that they can take back and went to boarding school and was Tinybop agreed. Using the app, apply in their classrooms. separated from his family,” said Lamb’s students and community “Educators are my heroes,” said Lucie Howell, chief Lamb, who added that her father, members were able to work learning officer for The Henry Ford. “They are the first a skilled welder, prized education together to translate terms of the adopters, the people who run with what we share and and taught her to do the same. human body from English to Navajo. make an impact. They are Model I examples — always curious, ready to take risks and they never back down So five years ago, when fellow Her innovative idea for the science from a challenge.” teacher (and now husband) Steven app helped her win acclaim as one Lamb suggested they team-teach To learn more or to nominate a teacher of The Henry Ford’s for the 2019 Teacher Innovator Awards, via video conferencing, she was Innovation Nation visit thf.org/teacherinnovator. The deadline immediately receptive to the Teacher Innovator for applications is Feb. 1, 2019. bold idea. The two used existing Award winners in digital tools, team-teaching their 2018, an accolade she students two to three times a now shares with her Through a collaborative week in their separate classrooms husband, who won language exercise with at schools that were miles apart. the same award the her students and the local More recently, the two took their previous year for the community, teacher Rachel Lamb helped translate the collaborative classroom effort to digital team-teaching Tinybop app (left) into Navajo. the next level, using The Henry he conducted with his PHOTO COURTESY OF TINYBOP Ford’s Model I learning framework future wife. (see story on Page 24), which is — Marti Benedetti

WATCH Teachers Steven Lamb and his future wife, Rachel Thomas, share during a 2016 TEDx Talk how they used readily available technology to help their students work and learn with other students in different grades in altogether different school locations youtube.com/TEDxTalksc (then search for “Connections Within a Virtual Void”)

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PROFESSION: DESIGNER (ALTHOUGH HE PREFERRED TO BE CALLED “SEARCHER”) INNOVATION: THE ACTION OFFICE II SYSTEM (1968) AND THE MOVABLE “COHERENT STRUCTURES” OF THE CO/STRUC SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR HOSPITALS (1971) ATTRIBUTES: EMPATHETIC OBSERVER, SERIAL PROBLEM SOLVER, UNORTHODOX THINKER

DID YOU KNOW? / Robert Propst did not like to be referred to as a designer. He also didn’t like the term “researcher,” because it implied looking backward. His ideal description for his activities was “searcher.”

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30 JANUARY-MAY 2019 YOU COULD BE FORGIVEN of the Co/Struc system designed IF YOU AREN’T FAMILIAR for hospitals (1971). In Propst’s mind, offices had Barrier-Free Access to WITH THE WORK OF ROBERT become chaotic wastelands. Artifacts, Experiences PROPST. AFTER ALL, IF HIS Cobbled together furniture, non- DESIGNS WERE WORKING AS ergonomic chairs and an invasion Evidence of the beauty of Robert Propst’s creative HE INTENDED, THEY SIMPLY of technology onto ad hoc surfaces. solutions — some pursued, some not — is found Action Office — a modular system in his archive, some of which is now accessible DISAPPEARED. of free-standing panel walls — through The Henry Ford Archive of American Propst became director of the could be fluidly arranged into nooks Innovation. Perusing this material digitally or in the Benson Ford Research Center’s Reading Herman Miller Research Division for working, conference areas and Room, you can experience his deep love for the (HMRD) in 1960, setting up shop in other purpose-driven needs. An a small concrete building in Ann power of systems, originating and optimizing idealistic vision for the birth of the existing examples across a broad spectrum: timber Arbor, Michigan. The founder of modern office cubicle. harvesting, office landscapes, livestock tagging, Herman Miller, D.J. DePree, saw Propst wasn’t always a designer children’s toys, medical products and much more. potential in Propst’s ambitious of “things” but of situations. He This Propst material is among thousands of thinking and hired him to broaden attacked issues from the reverse, artifacts now a part of The Henry Ford’s massive the company’s product range. finding clues in the algorithms digitization push. Efforts to open both The Henry Very few guidelines were in place of human behavior working in Ford’s physical and digital doors to everyone, at HMRD: Nothing should be high-stakes spaces. How did barrier-free, continue to rise in number and scope. connected to military use, no people move while working? Recent examples include a three-year partnership furniture designs — and whatever Where was time being spent? with PNC Bank and PNC Foundation for early was designed should simply Wasted? How can we support childhood programming and complimentary field trips to the museum and Greenfield Village. “be useful.” safety? Privacy? Collaboration? In addition, the Applebaum Family Compass Deliberately choosing a building The physical solutions he Fund has provided support for the Youth more than 150 miles away from engineered encouraged ideas of Mentorship Program, which has offered at-risk Herman Miller’s headquarters access, mobility and efficiency. teens the opportunity to develop life and work in Zeeland, Michigan, Propst His modular approach to office skills at The Henry Ford for nearly three decades. exercised his freedom to research landscapes was intended to have In 2019, The Henry Ford will also launch the new without the distraction of corporate a 1+1=3 effect. Which is to say William Davidson Initiative for Entrepreneurship. meetings. For every idea he that by implementing physical “The overall goal of Initiative for Entrepreneurship is had that went into production, change, “knowledge” workers to leverage the Archive of American Innovation and hundreds more were filed away. could then springboard off an assets of The Henry Ford to inspire future and current Two of Propst’s most impactful improved relationship with their entrepreneurs to be more successful,” said Patricia E. projects were holistic environments workspaces, which were suddenly Mooradian, president and CEO of The Henry Ford. designed for high-impact more hospitable to launching new Initiative for Entrepreneurship has four core directives, or pillars, which include expanded workplaces: the improved Action ideas, productive workflows and youth programming, speaker series, residencies Office II system (1968) and the transformative projects. and workshops. The continued digitization of The movable “coherent structures” — Kristen Gallerneaux Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation is also one of the foundational elements of the initiative. Explore the digital collections of The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation at thf.org. Learn DID YOU KNOW? / DID YOU KNOW? / more about the William Davidson Initiative for The proliferation of the The first version of Action Entrepreneurship at theinnovationproject.org. office cubicle is almost Office was conceived single-handedly due to by Robert Propst and the introduction of the designed by George Action Office II system Nelson in 1964, but sales in 1968. Unfortunately, were lackluster. Corporate the mobile aspect of managers worried about Action Office became the porous borders being rooted to the floor, quite offered to their staff, literally. Large businesses now called “knowledge filled their buildings workers,” and the cost was with Action Office (or simply too high. Propst its various knock-offs) returned to the drawing to create Dilbertesque board alone for AO2. “cubicle farms.”

CLOCK PROTOTYPE AND WOODEN SCULPTURE FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION

ROBERT PROPST COURTESY OF HERMAN MILLER

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32 JANUARY-MAY 2019 PROPST WASN’T ALWAYS A DESIGNER OF “THINGS” BUT OF SITUATIONS. HE ATTACKED ISSUES FROM THE REVERSE, FINDING CLUES IN THE ALGORITHMS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR WORKING IN HIGH- STAKES SPACES.

Action Ofﬁce I PHOTO COURTESY OF HERMAN MILLER

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PROFESSION: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SIDHARTH INNOVATION: SEEING FOR THE BLIND ATTRIBUTES: ANANTHA CURIOUS PEOPLE WATCHER, RELENTLESS INVESTIGATOR, INSIGHTFUL HUMANITARIAN

34 JANUARY-MAY 2019 SIDHARTH ANANTHA, significant vision impairments. A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AT “A lack of sight makes it hard to navigate and know where you are in The STEMIE Coalition | LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL IN relation to objects,” said Anantha. Invention Convention LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, “My invention solves this problem CONSIDERS HIMSELF MANY by using echolocation to give In September 2018, The Henry Ford acquired THINGS. the blind an awareness of their The STEMIE Coalition, a nonprofit global consortium surroundings and create a sense of youth invention and entrepreneurship programs He’s a violinist, engineer, robotics of navigation.” designed to strengthen invention education tutor, mentor, entrepreneur, offerings to children across the country and around Anantha’s enthusiasm, research inventor. He’s also a highly the world. As a result of the acquisition, several attuned “observationist” and and smart applications of science members of The STEMIE Coalition, including its a humanitarian hyper aware of and good sense helped him win CEO Danny Briere, became part of The Henry Ford the economic and health care big at the 2017 National Invention organization (see story on Page 50), and Henry challenges of developing countries, Convention and Entrepreneurship Ford Museum of American Innovation is now including his birthplace, India. In Expo in Virginia. In 2018, he the permanent home of the National Invention 2016, he had been mulling over returned to the Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo, which is the marquee event of The STEMIE Coalition. an idea to create a high-tech, Convention, held in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, National Invention Convention provides a live, low-cost, easy-to-use solution for in-person opportunity for youth inventors and helping the blind navigate their with a more refined Seeing for the Blind product. It garnered him, entrepreneurs (K-12) to display their critical surroundings — a direct response thinking skills through inventing, innovating and among other accolades, The Henry to a stat that troubled him. “Ninety entrepreneurial activities. More than 400 young percent of the world’s blind live Ford’s Model I Youth Innovator innovators, inventors and future entrepreneurs in developing countries,” said Award. Anantha is currently in the participated in last year’s convention. Similar Anantha. “Health care in India, for throes of the patent application numbers are expected this year. example, is not as developed as it process for his invention. And he’s is in the U.S. Many people, including not done with it yet. His “what’s next” 2019 National Invention Convention the blind, don’t get or can’t afford for Seeing for the Blind is to perfect and Entrepreneurship Expo the care they need.” the device’s ability not only to tell May 30-31 While waiting for takeoff on a the blind that something is near Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation commercial flight, Anantha noticed or in front of them but what that a blind woman tapping her support something actually is. cane to count the rows to her seat. “I want to have a meaningful From this simple observation effect on the world,” said Anantha, bloomed the formal trappings of who wants to become an aerospace an ingenious hands-free solution engineer and design jets that run on that Anantha now calls Seeing for clean electricity, as well as establish the Blind. It combines sonar with his own foundation to help train an Arduino processor in a small next-generation inventors. “I want to device that can be easily attached build things and become the Tesla to glasses or shoes to provide of aviation. Airplanes have always auditory and/or haptic obstacle been my obsession.” distance awareness for those with — Jennifer LaForce

The Seeing for the Blind device can be easily attached to glasses. It provides “What The Henry auditory obstacle distance awareness for the visually impaired. Ford is doing to PHOTOS BY NICK HAGEN promote innovation and inspire the younger generations is outstanding.” — Sidharth Anantha

thf.org 35 36 JANUARY-MAY 2019 Mind Over Matter Addressing educational equity is how America’s lost Einsteins will be found

By Alana Semuels

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hen Danny Briere asks kids to draw Why aren’t a picture Americans of what an inventing as inventor looks like, much as they they almost always draw the same thing: used to? Wan old white man who has frizzy hair, a mustache and a striking resemblance IS IT BECAUSE U.S. to Albert Einstein. COMPANIES ARE SPENDING That bothers Briere, managing Some economists have theorized LESS ON RISKY director of The STEMIE Coalition, that the decline in patents may IDEAS? a nonprofit global consortium that be because U.S. companies are was recently acquired by The Henry spending less on risky ideas. Ford to help teach kids around the Others say that the century of world how to think like inventors innovation that lasted from 1870 IS IT BECAUSE THE CENTURY (see story on Page 50). He knows to 1970 was an anomaly that will OF INNOVATION that with the right mindset, smart never be replicated. WAS AN Raj Chetty has another idea. kids from all different backgrounds ANOMALY? can be innovative and entrepre- Chetty, an economist who recently neurial but that many kids think the returned to Harvard University after only people who become inventors three years at Stanford, runs the are old white men. nonprofit Opportunity Insights, which uses data on 20 million WORTH THE RISK children and their parents to analyze Or is it America needs more inventors. upward mobility in America and For 80 years, the patent office of what factors make children do because of ZIP the United States was the leading better than their parents economi- codes, income place in the world for patent filings. cally. He’s used the data to show But China surpassed the U.S. in definitively that the ZIP code where distribution 2011, and today countries including a child is raised has a huge effect on and exposure? South Korea, Japan and Germany the likelihood that that child will go all file more patents than the U.S., to college and make a good living when measured by the size of a and that income inequality has country’s economy. made it harder for children from At the same time, the startup low-income families to earn more rate is declining in the U.S., and than their parents. ONLINE Learn more about Opportunity Insights small businesses make up a Chetty also used the data and how to improve economic opportunities for children smaller share of the economy than to look into who becomes an opportunityinsights.orgc they did in the past. That matters inventor in America. By linking not just for reasons of pride. patent records to income tax Economists say that half of the records, he and his colleagues country’s annual economic growth, found that kids who grow up rich — which is what helps Americans in the top 1 percent of the income become richer and improve their distribution — are 10 times as likely standard of living, is attributed to to become inventors as those born increases in innovation. More than to families with below-median half of the economic growth in the incomes. Kids who grow up around c Raj Chetty (opposite page), a professor of economics country since the end of World War innovators, or who have personal at Harvard University and the director of Opportunity II, in fact, has been attributable to relationships with innovators, are Insights, is conducting extensive research on how, as a nation, we can give children from disadvantaged technological innovation. also much more likely to become backgrounds a better chance of succeeding. Why aren’t Americans inventing inventors themselves than those PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN D. & CATHERINE T. as much as they used to? who don’t.c MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

38 JANUARY-MAY 2019 THE OPPORTUNITY ATLAS The U.S. Census Bureau collaborated with Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren at Harvard University, along with John Friedman at Brown University, to create the Opportunity Atlas, an online visualization tool that gives public access to highly localized data on social mobility for the ﬁrst time. Users can view estimates for factors such as children’s earnings distributions, incarceration rates and other outcomes in adulthood by parental income, race and gender for every census tract in America. This valuable information can help us better understand which neighborhoods offer children the best chances of climbing the income ladder in the future and where opportunities are being missed. Explore the Opportunity Atlas at opportunityatlas.org. OPPORTUNITY ATLAS MAP COURTESY OF U.S. CENSUS BUREAU AND OPPORTUNITY INSIGHTS

“There are lots of kids from low-income backgrounds, women and minorities, who seem like they would have very high ability to produce really impactful innovations but are not going through the pipeline.” — Raj Chetty

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Exposing kids to innovators, LOST & FOUND Chetty and his team hypothesized, There are groups could go a long way toward finding across the country “While Pioneer these “lost Einsteins” and helping trying to change will provide them pursue their interests in this dynamic and money to innovation. “There are lots of kids help different people, it’s from low-income backgrounds, types of people not about the women and minorities, who seem pursue inventions like they would have very high and innovation. money. My ability to produce really impactful A company called hope is that innovations but are not going Pioneer, for instance, this experiment through the pipeline,” Chetty said. recently launched a Daniel Gross can broaden Kelly Reynolds knows how difficult website that calls for it can be to become an inventor good projects that don’t have people’s without the right connections. to be fully formed inventions DID YOU KNOW? / horizons of Reynolds grew up in Brooklyn, raised or companies. Daniel Gross, founder of how they view by a single dad who was a transit Every month, the community of Pioneer, is an Israeli- born entrepreneur themselves. conductor. When she was working applicants will vote on ideas that who as a teenager I met amazing as a single mom in New York City, have been submitted, and Pioneer co-founded a social she came up with an invention: an will give a $5,000 grant to the search startup that peers and electronic device mount for a stroller person with the best idea and then was later acquired by challenged so that her daughter could watch fly that person to San Francisco to Apple. Gross then joined Apple as director of myself to do children’s shows on the subway receive mentorship from experts machine learning before without constantly dropping the in their field. becoming a partner what I thought tablet. Reynolds applied for a patent Pioneer is “an attempt to find the at Y Combinator, a I couldn’t and tried to get funders, but she most brilliant people in the world, provider of seed money for startups. Pioneer is because of my found she didn’t have the contacts wherever they are, and to identify his effort to help people environment.” she needed to raise money to start cheap and scalable interventions with talent and potential manufacturing the product or selling that might help them achieve their realize their ideas. — Daniel Gross it. She had to focus on saving money, goals,” founder Daniel Gross wrote not spending it on an invention that in a blog post announcing the effort, might not go anywhere, and she which also referenced Chetty’s work. didn’t have any family members Similarly, StreetCode Academy, who could help her out. a San Francisco Bay Area non- Patent Rates for “People who come from low- profit, has launched a campaign, Children of Inventors or middle-income families, we’re Who’s Next, which also seeks to vs. Non-Inventors 1 limited,” said Reynolds. “If your find “lost Einsteins” by exposing daughter says, ‘I have an invention,’ local kids to technology and they say, ‘We have to pay rent.’” mentorship networks.c

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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION Two University of Chicago economists, Ufuk Akcigit and John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas of Harvard Business School recently published a paper examining what traits inventors shared in the golden age of innovation between 1880 and 1940. They found that, like today, people who had more well-to-do parents were more 2.0 likely to become inventors than those who did not. But people could do things to increase their chances of succeeding as an PARENTS PARENTS NOT inventor. Densely populated states, for instance, were more inventive during INVENTORS INVENTORS this time, prompting many promising inventors to pick up and move to these regions. Thomas Edison, for example, moved from his birthplace in rural Ohio to 157,058 kids 16,238,825 kids Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he could better access financing to do his research — which in turn helped lead to his 1,093 U.S. patents. 1 Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The three university researchers also found that geographically connected The Importance of Exposure to Innovation states were more inventive because inventors could more easily and cheaply sell Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova their products to more people. Melvin De Groote, who moved from his home in West and John Van Reenen Virginia to various cities that were more geographically accessible, received 925 U.S. Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming patents, and the technology he invented was used for decades in the oil industry. December 2017

40 JANUARY-MAY 2019 StreetCode Academy, a nonproﬁt in the San Francisco DID YOU KNOW? / Bay Area, recently launched a campaign focused on The average software engineer tech education and mentorship to help bridge the income in the Silicon Valley innovation gap. Who’s Next exposes underserved is $105,404; at the same communities to the technological landscape and time, the average household raises awareness about the nonproﬁt’s skills training income in East Palo Alto is and network for providing professional development $42,342. StreetCode Academy opportunities, mentorship and real-world work aims to close the income gap experiences. by providing the necessary technology education to PHOTO BY SQUINT FOTO prepare communities of color for jobs in the technology industry, which currently has the most income potential in the Silicon Valley.

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More broadly, people like The STEMIE Coalition’s Briere are trying to get school systems to implement invention education, in which students are taught to think creatively about how to identify and then solve problems THE INNOVATION around them. STEMIE, in fact, stands for STEM + Invention + PROJECT Entrepreneurship, which the No innovator left behind. No entrepreneur coalition believes yields an inno- excluded. The Henry Ford is working continually vative mindset in a child for life. to remove barriers to accessing its content, Previously, teachers had Danny Briere making its experiences, artifacts and learning focused on steering kids to STEM — environments available to everyone — especially the country enter inventions and science, technology, engineering those who traditionally have been left behind. compete on their merits. Each and mathematics — or educating The Henry Ford’s Youth Mentorship Program, year, more and more children are them on how to become entre- for example, has been offering at-risk teens the getting involved. In 2018, 108,000 preneurs. But as computers learn opportunity to develop life and work skills on-site inventions were judged across the at The Henry Ford for nearly three decades. The how to do more and more jobs in country, with the top contenders Henry Ford’s Community Outreach Program — STEM fields, Briere said more school journeying to The Henry Ford for which makes the institution’s collections and districts and teachers are seeing the educational experiences more accessible to importance of invention education the first time for the final competi- resource-challenged families, at-risk youth, kids and how it can impact the inventive tion. Now, Henry Ford Museum of fighting cancer and victims of violence — has been and entrepreneurial workforce of American Innovation is the event’s working with local organizations for a dozen years. tomorrow. Invention education isn’t permanent home, and The STEMIE More recently, The Henry Ford has implemented just teaching kids science or tech- Coalition has been acquired by highly successful sensory-friendly programming nology facts or how to sell products The Henry Ford. Together, the and tactile tours, making its campus accessible — it’s about teaching them how to two organizations’ goal is to see to even more individuals and families. 10 million American kids learn The Henry Ford still wants to do more and identify problems on their own and think creatively for a lifetime. how to be innovative, inventive will do more as part of its multimillion-dollar and entrepreneurial. comprehensive campaign called The Innovation Schools can teach invention in Some invention convention Project, where plans already exist to create new any number of ways, offered Briere: accessible environments on campus, expand A teacher going over the history of submitters have already garnered existing programs to be more accessible and the cotton gin, for example, could national attention, such as the girl relevant to a broader audience, and renovate launch a seven-week program who proposed an idea for bulletproof facilities to accommodate individuals with a range that encourages kids to invent school walls and the 13-year-old of abilities as well as their family members and something useful in their lives. who created a lollipop that cures companions. (See Letter from the President on They could use tools like Model I, hiccups. Even if the inventions Page 6.) The campaign’s core learning initiatives a new learning platform created themselves don’t make it to the also have the potential to help The Henry Ford by The Henry Ford that teaches marketplace, Briere noted the fact equip educators and learners with the real-world about the habits and actions of that if more school districts are skills they need to narrow the talent gap and innovators using its collections teaching kids that they, too, can be nurture the future talent pipeline. inventors, it is going to help create For details on programs and initiatives and stories of innovation as a change in the way innovation is comprising The Henry Ford’s The Innovation foundation (see story on Page 24). Project, go to theinnovationproject.org. perceived in America. Even giving CHANGING PERCEPTIONS students the confidence to know Briere hopes the U.S. government that they can be inventors has the will someday follow the model of potential to completely change South Korea, which mandated their career trajectory. DID YOU KNOW? / that every child get an invention After students go through the In September 2018, The Henry Ford acquired STEMIE invention convention The STEMIE Coalition, a nonproﬁt global consortium education. Interest in the U.S. is of youth invention and entrepreneurship programs. already growing, he said. curriculum, Briere said, he asks Together, they are strengthening invention education In 2016, STEMIE began holding them again to draw a picture of offerings to children across the country and around an annual national invention a typical inventor. This time, they the world, with a goal to help 10 million kids learn convention in which kids across draw themselves. l how to unlock real-world skills for identifying problems, sharing solutions and implementing ideas.

STEM + INVENTION + ENTREPRENEURSHIP = INNOVATION

DANNY BRIERE BY KMS PHOTOGRAPHY

42 JANUARY-MAY 2019 INVENTION EDUCATION IMPACT

The Snow Straw, invented by Sophie Zezula, addresses the timely issue of plastic straw pollution. Zezula’s straw is made entirely of ice. It won second place (ﬁfth-grade category) at the 2018 National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo.

The Bully Band, invented by seventh- grader Molly Grace Deptula, is a wearable device prototyped from a modiﬁed Fitbit that transmits video and audio to an app made exclusively for school administrators. It won third place in the “Recognizing Females in The STEMIE Coalition” category at the 2018 National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo.

The Lightning Shock Sticker, invented by ﬁfth-grader Michael Muldoon, can be placed directly on the exterior of any sports helmet in areas where an impact is most likely. If a hit to the head has a g-force rating of roughly 95 g’s, the sticker turns red, alerting coaches and players to seek medical attention. The sticker won third place (ﬁfth-grade category) at the 2018 National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo.

RESEARCH Audrey Larson, past invention convention RESEARCH Mallory Kievman, past invention convention participant and inventor of Safe K.I.D.S., participant and inventor of the Hiccupop, a retractable bulletproof school wallc a lollipop that cures the hiccupsc PHOTOS BY NICK HAGEN

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44 JANUARY-MAY 2019 INVENTION EDUCATION IMPACT ISHANI’S her weight STORY years (in pounds) at 9 old 1.5 birth at 26 weeks

When Ishani (left) was born 14 weeks premature, The months she worked she spent months in the NICU fighting for her life. on her invention called As a result of her premature birth, she has a condition the Mochi Ka Boot that requires her to wear leg braces. This doesn’t slow 3 her down. She is a vibrant elementary school student who participated in the 2018 Michigan Invention Convention and debuted her Mochi Ka Boot, a comfortable, waterproof, warm boot that can be worn over ankle-foot orthosis supports. She envisions a day 2018 when kids just like her can play outside with friends The year she in the snow. participated in

PHOTO BY EE BERGER her first invention convention at The Henry Ford

thf.org 45 Set a course for Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation to experience Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds, a fully immersive, limited-engagement exhibition. Navigate through more than 100 rare artifacts and props, including the original U.S.S. Enterprise navigation console. Beam yourself into the action with the transporter simulator and the KHAAAN! scream booth and discover how this iconic franchise has been inspiring generations to explore and innovate for over fifty years.

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS • Set pieces from Star Trek: The Original Series.

• More than 100 props and artifacts from the six Star Trek television series and films, including an original series tricorder, communicator and phaser, a Borg cube, Klingon disruptor pistol, tribbles and more.

• Rare costumes, including the Spock tunic worn by Leonard Nimoy and Lt. Uhura’s (Nichelle Nichols) dress.

• Spaceship filming models, including the U.S.S. Enterprise, Deep Space 9 space station and more.

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thf.org 47 As a supercharged fourth-grader, Ishani has been sparked by her experiences at The Henry Ford. In fact, here at the 2018 Michigan Invention Convention, she debuted the Mochi Ka (Cobbler’s) Boot, her invention to protect AFO (ankle-foot orthosis) leg braces in the snow.

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Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation 50 Greenﬁeld Village 52 Ford Rouge Factory Tour 54 Acquisitions + Collections 56 2019 Events 58 Connect 3 62

thf.org 49 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD HENRY FORD MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INNOVATION bThe impressive group of participants at the 2018 National Invention Convention and Entrepre- neurship Expo lets out a giant cheer for innovation with (below from left) Abby Fisher, director of educational programming for The STEMIE Coalition; Patricia E. Mooradian, THINK BIG president and CEO of The STEMIE Coalition’s Danny Briere reflects on his “wow” The Henry Ford; Mo Rocca, host of The Henry Ford’s museum moment and how joining forces with The Henry Innovation Nation; and Danny Briere, managing Ford will bring invention education to kids everywhere director of The STEMIE Coalition.

PHOTO BY KMS PHOTOGRAPHY Henry Ford Magazine sat THF MagazinecWhat does the down with Danny Briere, STEMIE initiative stand for, and managing director of how is it different from general The The STEMIE Coalition, STEM education? soon after The Henry Ford BrierecSTEMIE stands for STEM + acquired The STEMIE Invention + Entrepreneurship, which STEMIE Coalition in a joint effort to strengthen believes yields an innovative mindset in a invention education around the world. child for life. To keep America at the forefront The coalition is a nonprofit global consortium of the world economy, we need an inventive of youth invention and entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial workforce that can solve programs best known for producing problems in creative new ways. This is the the National Invention Convention and heart of American innovation. Through The Entrepreneurship Expo for K-12 students. STEMIE Coalition and Invention Convention, Briere is now the guy tasked with we are seeing firsthand how invention spearheading a vast outreach to ensure education can reinforce and grow each The Henry Ford has an active part child’s ability to identify problems on their in unleashing the next generation of own and come up with amazing solutions. innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs. THF MagazinecWhat’s unique about THF MagazinecCan you share your the merging of missions of The STEMIE first impressions of The Henry Ford Coalition and The Henry Ford? and what happened next? BrierecWe’re both nonprofits, and the merging of nonprofits doesn’t happen BrierecAs soon as I stepped foot in often. We’re not motivated by money or big Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, egos, only by our joint missions to bring I knew it was the right place for me and The invention education to every child. Together, STEMIE Coalition and would be the right we bring a lot to the mix: The Henry Ford permanent home for National Invention with its long game driven by a passionate, Convention. I have always viewed our capable team, and The STEMIE Coalition convention as a brainstorming activity that staff, which sports a fail-fast, fail-often, gets the whole family involved. It deserves a push-forward attitude. Combined, we have destination where a family can go and say, a long-term view with an aggressive “think “Wow!” The museum is that place where kids big” movement. can be surrounded by the spirit of innovation. THF MagazinecWhat will equal After the Michigan Invention Convention success for this partnership? last spring, the museum quickly became c the forever home of National Invention Briere That we give millions of children Convention, and The STEMIE Coalition and the opportunity. That every kid grows the confidence they need to know they can do The Henry Ford officially aligned to make it. That every participant in our programs invention education available to millions of knows they can make meaningful change teachers and kids around the world. in the world. That we have helped create the next generation of serial innovators.

ONLINE For more information, hours and pricing for Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, visit thf.org/museumc

50 JANUARY-MAY 2019 Michigan Invention Convention April 27 Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation

Michigan-based youth inventors and entrepreneurs in grades 3-12 display and pitch a product representative of their problem-solving skills with a chance to move on to the National Invention Convention and To learn Entrepreneurship Expo. more about Michigan Invention Convention and PLUS: April 27 is The Henry how you can be a part of future Ford’s Spring Educator events and build awareness in Open House. Educators your schools and communities, and a guest receive free visit thf.org/education/ access to the museum as competitions-and-events/ well as the opportunity michigan-invention to attend sessions and -convention-program enjoy free tickets to other The Henry Ford venues. Registration required. thf.org/eoh

2019 National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo presented by United Technologies Corporation May 30-31 Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation

A live, in-person opportunity for youth inventors and entrepreneurs in grades K-12 to practice their critical thinking skills through inventing, innovating and entrepreneurial activities.

thf.org 51 thf.org 51 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD GREENFIELD VILLAGE CORE CREATIVE Historic Greenfield Village spaces provide a past-forward view of how we innovate, invent and collaborate

hubs like Silicon Valley into industrial profit,” said Debra Reid, and R&D powerhouses curator of agriculture and the environment like Xerox’s PARC. Mom- at The Henry Ford. “He was not the only Tech and-pop hackerspaces person researching the potential of the and blow-out fab labs all new cash crop in the 1930s, but he was the across the globe. No matter individual working with some of the most their size, brand stature noted soybean researchers and boosters in or pathways to creativity, these locations the country.” In 1941 at an annual Dearborn all thrive on people’s innate need to gather festival, Ford even debuted his Soybean Car, together to innovate, invent and create. a project completed in his Soybean Lab by Visit Greenfield Village, and one of tool-and-die guy Lowell Overly and chemist America’s first-ever R&D labs and invention Robert Boyer. factories is in your midst: Thomas Edison’s Today, Ford Motor Company continues to Menlo Park. When Edison first moved his benefit from its founder’s fascination and operation to Menlo Park, New Jersey, it extensive R&D with the soybean. Since 2011, consisted of one building and a dozen for example, soybean-based foam has been workers. Like most provocative tech hubs, a key material used in the seat cushions, seat it quickly morphed into a collaborative backs and headrests of every vehicle Ford community of 80 talented individuals builds in North America. representing multiple disciplines populating While Menlo Park can be easily slotted a campus consisting of a library, machine as America’s original tech hub and Ford’s shop, carpentry studio, glassblowing house Soybean Lab described as a more traditional and more. “Edison’s Menlo Park is a model of R&D excellence,” said Marc Greuther, R&D laboratory, Greenfield Village’s Liberty chief curator and vice president of historical Craftworks gives clarity to what constitutes resources at The Henry Ford. “With no set a unique makerspace. Whether it’s the Glass, hierarchy and an egalitarian atmosphere, Pottery, Tin or Weaving shops, each of these Edison understood that if you had the right spaces is a creative gathering point for the people and the right equipment, and you did village’s artisan community to practice their it in the right location, you could really set a crafts, share ideas and make things daily — pace — create a place where ideas quickly from the serving ware used at Firestone Farm translated into tangible objects.” to the handblown glass ornaments sold in Opened in Greenfield Village in 1930, The Henry Ford’s gift shops. Collaboration Henry Ford’s Soybean Lab exemplifies a outside the village walls is also key to what more traditional R&D lab, a place where a makes Liberty Craftworks such an active corporation puts technical experts to work makerspace. The Greenfield Village Glass to invent, refine and perfect its products and Shop, for example, invites several renowned procedures. “Ford built the lab to affirm his glass artists from across the globe to take up support of farmers, his influence on industry temporary residence at The Henry Ford each and his desire to turn agricultural products year to showcase and share their artistry.

DID YOU KNOW? / Henry Ford had New SHOP Handcrafted pottery, glass and tin produced by Greenfield Village artisans in Liberty Craftworks Jersey soil from Thomas online at thf.org/shopc Edison’s Menlo Park campus transported to Dearborn in 1929 and ONLINE For more information, hours and pricing for Greenfield Village, visit thf.org/villagec spread over the lab’s new site in Greenfield Village.

52 JANUARY-MAY 2019 IN THE MAKING While many of Greenfield Village’s makerspaces are making year-round, springtime is one of the village’s livelier times, full of opportunities to see how things are made. Think sheep to shirt as you watch the annual shearing of Firestone Farm’s Merino sheep. Then travel to the Gunsolly Carding Mill to see how fibers are turned into clean wool rovings ready to be spun into thread. The carding shop Purchase machinery operates wool rovings just three weekends made in Greenfield a year, so it’s an Village and yarn that’s early spring village produced from the Merino experience not to sheep at the Village Store. be missed. Members save 10% on Make your way shopping in stores to the working and online. farms of Firestone and Daggett and the homes of Henry Ford and the Mattox family where fields are being plowed and planted. Let the ideas spark for your own garden. Then apply the inspiration gained from marveling at all that hands-on hard work, and make a takeaway of your time in Greenfield Village with your own hands. Visit the Armington & Sims Machine Shop, and shape a brass candlestick using a 1917 turret lathe. Sign up for a workshop at the Glass Shop, and become a glass artist in your own right. Your blown-glass flower creation will be shipped directly to you.

EARLY SPRING ACTIVITIES GREENFIELD VILLAGE MEMBER PREVIEW April 12 SHEEP SHEARING - Firestone Farm WOOL CARDING - Gunsolly Carding Mill April 26-28; May 3-5, 10-12 GARDENING DAILY (weather In 1928, Henry Ford commissioned the reconstruction of Thomas Edison’s and grounds dependent) Menlo Park Laboratory for Greenﬁeld Village. He took great care in ensuring Firestone Farm, Daggett America’s ﬁrst-ever R&D lab looked as it had in 1886, with every beaker and Farm, Ford Home, Mattox test tube in place as they would have been in Edison’s time. Ford’s intention: Family Home for the reconstruction to serve as an homage to the great American innovator that would inspire future generations. SPRING FIELDWORK DAILY Firestone Farm PHOTO BY JAMES SALESKA PHOTOGRAPHY

thf.org 53 thf.org 53 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD FORD ROUGE FACTORY TOUR c Henry Ford Academy’s Gator-Bots robotics team recently had the opportunity to see its STEM studies take shape. The team got a closer look at state-of- the-art robotic applications on the ﬁnal assembly line at the Dearborn Truck Plant while ﬁlming a spot for an advertising campaign for HOORAY The Henry Ford. PHOTO BY JAMES SALESKA FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ROBOTICS Seeing manufacturing in action builds student appreciation for STEM studies

2018, the Gator-Bots, Ford campus. “It’s unbelievably fun, of Henry Ford Academy’s course, but our team also does something robotics team, spent wonderful. Many of our students have not In some time at the Ford considered a career in STEM previously, Rouge Factory Tour either because they didn’t think they were filming a spot for an capable or they weren’t exposed to adults upcoming advertising who work in those fields.” campaign for The Henry Ford. The They are considering such careers now. commercial’s purpose: to show how According to Goodman, her students’ experiences such as the factory tour can exposure to robotics has them graduating spark ideas and help the next generation from high school eager to pursue careers unleash its potential to innovate. in technology, programming and scientific It seemed an apropos film set for the research. “That is the strength of FIRST high school group, which built robots last robotics in our school,” she noted. year that could collect power cubes off FIRST is a global robotics competition the floor and lift them to be stacked on that gives out more than $80 million in scales. Every day, Ford Rouge Factory Tour college scholarships each year. Ford Motor goers get a bird’s-eye view of the Dearborn Company also provides funding through Truck Plant’s final assembly line and see the Detroit and Downriver Area Robotics firsthand how a complex web of robotics, Alliance (DADARA) and through its Ford equipment, parts delivery and skilled STEAM Blue Oval Scholarship. Typically, workers comes together to manufacture Henry Ford Academy has 20 to 25 one Ford F-150 per minute. students involved in FIRST each year. This year, Henry Ford Academy is In January, the Gator-Bots senior betting that future competitions featuring team started strategizing hard about the Gator-Bots and their robots branded the functionality of its next set of robots, with alligators will fire up even more prepping for FIRST’s 2019 robotics season students to pursue college degrees in and its Destination: Deep Space competition. fields related to science, technology, It’s a serious commitment, said engineering and math (STEM). Goodman. During the build season, which “I am so proud to work with our robotics lasts through mid-February, the crew team,” said Tammy Goodman, a teacher meets up to six times a week, constructing, and mentor at Henry Ford Academy, a testing, rebuilding and perfecting compact public charter high school on The Henry marvels of robotics innovation.

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54 JANUARY-MAY 2019 SAVE THE DATE Manufacturing Day 2019 Friday, October 4

A DAY FOR LEARNING ABOUT MAKING On October 5, 2018, some 500 students from school districts all across south- east Michigan descended on the Dearborn Truck Plant, eager to take the Ford Rouge Factory Tour as part of Manufacturing Day. The sheer number of attendees and size of the host site made it the largest celebration of Manufacturing Day in the metro Detroit area. Along with getting to take the official tour, the students had the added opportunity to interact with the Dearborn Truck Plant staff to ask questions about what it’s like to manufacture the Ford F-150 in a state- of-the-art facility on the historic Rouge grounds — basically a place where every day is Manufacturing Day. “Students can talk with assembly line workers, UAW staff and some outside vendors such as the Michigan Department of Transportation,” said Douglas Plond, operations manager for the tour. “It’s a day with uplifted programs specifically focused on these students’ STEM studies.” The overall purpose of the event, according to Plond, is to get kids thinking more about possible career paths in science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) and advanced manufacturing. “Each year, this event increases interest in the STEM professions,” he said. Manufacturing Day is held each year on the first Friday of October. For more information, visit mfgday.com.

thf.org 55 thf.org 55 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD ACQUISITIONS + COLLECTIONS WHAT’S INSIDE THE (X)BOX? An engineering student’s curiosity questions a controversial copyright act

Andrew “Bunnie” Huang was actually a powerful personal computer used a screwdriver to with a large hard drive and RAM, a fast open a Microsoft Xbox processor and built-in broadband internet When gaming system in 2002, capabilities. The only difference from the he willingly opened a legal PC was that most of the Xbox’s features Pandora’s box. were locked down. “Whenever you give me In an MIT lab, Huang removed chips a locked box, I want to open it,” Huang from an Xbox motherboard and extracted would later tell reporters at the Kalamazoo their contents. Using his knowledge as Gazette. “Microsoft really locked their box an electrical engineer, he mapped how tight, and all it did was make me want to information was being exchanged on the get into it more.” motherboard between various components As a student completing his Ph.D. in and figured out how to subvert the process. electrical engineering at Massachusetts The most significant item in Huang’s Institute of Technology’s Artificial hacked Xbox is a custom modchip Intelligence Laboratory, Huang became attached to the motherboard. This infamous as the first hardware hacker of the chip “eavesdrops” on communication Xbox video game system. His subsequent between various components on the book, Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to motherboard and is activated by flipping Reverse Engineering, became a controversial a switch glued nearby. “Activating the guidebook for the modchip (short for $50 chip allowed people to unlock the full modification chip) movement. potential of the Xbox as a media center: The inspiration to dissect an Xbox came to watch films, browse the web, listen to after Huang’s Ph.D. adviser, Tom Knight, music,” said Kristen Gallerneaux, curator suggested his students research gaming of communications and information consoles as “high-performance but low- technology at The Henry Ford. “Using an cost” systems. What Huang discovered adapter, he also modified the joystick port when he opened the Xbox’s case was a to communicate with a keyboard, and, with device being marketed as a single-purpose a little work, he found that you could switch machine for playing video games, but it the operating system to program in Linux.”

DID YOU KNOW? / cThe HyperTransport tap board visible in this photograph is the Andrew Huang’s Xbox project custom modchip at the heart of Bunnie Huang’s Xbox project. exposed security issues with The flip switch to the right is used to activate the chip and the gaming system. The bypass Xbox security. NVIDIA chip inside the Xbox later became the subject of a FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION securities lawsuit in which Huang’s findings were used as an exhibit.

56 JANUARY-MAY 2019 DEFENDING THE CURIOUS Microsoft’s response to Bunnie Huang’s modification of the Xbox and the publication of his how-to book was less than enthusiastic, and he soon found himself facing legal pressure from the company. Using the hacked Xbox as a launch point, Huang began an ongoing campaign to raise awareness of the limitations imposed by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In part, the DMCA limits computing security investigation to researchers who have been deemed “legitimate” — usually people embedded in institutions and corporations. Huang and many others, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), believe this limits innovation and the future engineering talent pool. Said Huang: “The most alarming aspect of the DMCA for hackers is that it embodies the fallacy that the only sources of innovation of benefit to society lie within the halls of research institutions and corporations.” The EFF’s sentiment supports his cause — and the curiosity of others like him — in stating: “Who wants to buy a car with the hood welded shut?” eff.org

Bunnie Huang

PHOTO BY PAULINE NG

thf.org 57 thf.org 57 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD 2019 Celebrate. Play. Events Imagine.

STAR TREK: EXPLORING NEW WORLDS MAY 11-SEPTEMBER 2 Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation

The first episode of Star Trek: seen navigation console of Captain The Original Series aired on Kirk from the original series; a host September 8, 1966. Now, more of costumes worn by characters than 50 years later, TV viewers and Kirk, Spock, Uhura and Dr. McCoy; moviegoers’ obsession with the and a 6-foot U.S.S. Enterprise space odyssey is no less intense. filming model from Star Trek: This summer, Star Trek: Exploring The Next Generation. New Worlds comes to Henry Ford Interactive elements include Museum of American Innovation. the Khan Booth, where visitors A celebration of the Star Trek can record their own version of phenomenon, this exhibition the memorable scene from Star showcases the enduring impact Trek ll: The Wrath of Khan, and the the show and subsequent movies Transporter Room, where guests and spinoffs have had on our can act out being transported to culture, from arts and sports to an alien planet. technology and fashion. It also gives an insightful look into how the For hard-core fans, there is also original series, filmed during a time Citizens of the Galaxy, where you of social unrest in the 1960s, boldly can listen to clips and interviews tackled boundary-breaking topics, from people whose lives have been such as interracial relationships, influenced, changed or even saved featuring a cast of culturally and by Star Trek. ethnically diverse actors. The exhibition is an exclusive look In total, the exhibition features at how a pop culture entertainment more than 100 artifacts and props icon can inspire people to imagine, from the Star Trek TV series, spin- create and explore the final frontier offs and films. Included is the rarely and beyond.

FREE TO MEMBERS ONLINE To learn more, visit Star Trek: Exploring New CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: KHAN COSTUME FROM STAR TREK: INTO thf.org/startrekc DARKNESS; UHURA UNIFORM; KLINGON BATTLE CRUISER; GEORDI Worlds is free to members or LA FORGE VISOR FROM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION; KLINGON with museum admission. P.A.D.D. FROM STAR TREK GENERATIONS; KLINGON WEAPONS AND KLINGON BATTLE CRUISER

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Meet Halo, Henry, Reef, Ricochet and a host of other amazing pups in SEE the film Superpower Dogs. Opening in March at The Henry Ford’s Giant SUPERPOWER Screen Experience, this immersive adventure shares the true inspiring stories of some remarkable four-legged superheroes who save lives and DOGS share special bonds with their human partners. From an elite disaster response trainee and an avalanche rescue expert to a lifeguard and a surfing legend support pet, Superpower Dogs explores the incredible ONLINE To learn more, visit superpowerdogs.comc abilities of dogs and the science behind their superpowers.

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JULY World Tournament Towers of Members Annual 2019 HOURS Star Trek:™ of Historic Base Tomorrow with Holiday Lighting Henry Ford Museum of Exploring Ball® LEGO® Bricks Ceremony* American Innovation™ New Worlds August 10-11 Member Preview November 25 w Open 7 days a week, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Running through Village October 11 Museum September 2 Historic Base Ball in Museum Greenfield Village® Museum Greenfield Village is Visits with Santa April 12 made possible through Towers of November 29- Open exclusively to members the generous support of plus guests covered by their Annual Salute Cynthia and Edsel B. Ford II Tomorrow with December 24 LEGO® Bricks membership for Member to America* Museum Preview Day July 3-6 w Member October 12, 2019- January 5, 2020 Open to the public Village Appreciation Days DECEMBER April 13-November 3: August 23-25 Museum Towers of 7 days a week, Summer Camp* The Henry Ford Tomorrow with 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. July 8-12, 15-19, 22-26 Hallowe’en in LEGO® Bricks Greenfield Village* November 4-December 1: and 29-August 2 SEPTEMBER Running through Open Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 17-20 The Henry Ford Star Trek:™ January 5, 2020 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and 24-27 w Exploring Museum December 2-31: Village Historic Base Ball New Worlds Closed; open select evenings Presented by Meijer Games Running through Visits with Santa in December July 13-14, 20-21 Running through September 2 Eagle Tavern Giant Screen Experience and 27-28 Museum December 24 Open daily with extended hours Village Harvest Supper* Museum October 11-12, 18-19 Ford Rouge Factory Tour 69th Annual Open Monday-Saturday, ® and 25-26 w Maker Faire Old Car Festival Holiday Nights in 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (Call for bus Village Detroit* September 7-8 Greenfield Village* times and seasonal hours) July 27-28 w December 5-8, 12-15, (Open Saturday ‘til Hallowe’en Benson Ford (Open Saturday and 17-23 and 26-28 w ® 9 p.m.) w Fairy-Tale Feast Research Center Sunday ’til 6 p.m.) Village Village Reading room open Monday- The Henry Ford Package at A Taste Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. of History®* In collaboration with Fall Flavor Holiday Nights October 11-13, 17-20 All attractions closed Maker Media Weekends Dinner Package at and 24-27 w Thanksgiving and September 28-29 Eagle Tavern* Christmas days Village AUGUST Village December 5-8, 12-15, Star Trek:™ 17-23 and 26-28 w All programs and dates NOVEMBER are subject to change Exploring Farmers Market Village Towers of New Worlds September 28 The Henry Ford is an Running through Tomorrow with Holiday Nights independent nonprofit Village ® September 2 LEGO Bricks Happy Hour at the organization. We depend Running through Pavilion* on ticket purchases, Museum OCTOBER income from our stores January 5, 2020 December 5-8, 12-15, Manufacturing and restaurants, and tax- Museum 17-23 and 26-28 w deductible contributions and Summer Camp* Day Village memberships for support July 29-August 2 October 4 and August 5-9 Sensory-Friendly Ford Rouge Factory Saturday Holiday Nights For the latest updates The Henry Ford Tour and more information November 23 Supper with Santa on special events and Historic Base Ball Museum Package at A programs, call 313.982.6001 Fall Flavor or visit thf.org Games Taste of History* Weekends Member December 5-8, 12-15, August 3-4 and 17-18 October 5-6 Sign up for e-newsletter Village Appreciation Days 17-23 and 26-28 w at thf.org/enews Village November 23-25 Village The Henry Ford Text JOINTHF to 36898 Farmers Market (Standard message and data October 5 rates apply) Village *Additional fee and/or advance reservation required. Membersw Special evening 26th hours during these events.

thf.org 61 INSIDEINSIDE THETHE HENRY FORD FORD Connect 3 Curators uncover curious connections between artifacts and ideas

Accidental Discoveries How do a 1928 Ford Model A car, a colorful coverlet and a jar of artiﬁcial sweetener relate?

WEIGHT WATCHERS SWEET’NER JAR While pondering food preservatives in 1878, chemist Constantin Fahlberg spilled a substance on himself that made everything he touched taste sweet. His unintentional c COVERLET WOVEN spillage was the segue BY WILLIAM NEY to a sugar substitute. 1928 FORD MODEL A “A windshield, a In 1856, chemistry MAKE THE TOURING CAR prodigy William Henry coverlet, an artiﬁcial CONNECTION: In 1903, chemist Perkin was in a quandary, sweetener. These Edouard Benedictus trying to create a The need to save our accidentally dropped synthetic quinine. objects reveal the food from speedy a glass beaker that Instead, he discovered power of accidents spoilage leads to an broke but didn’t shatter aniline purple, the artificial answer to because it was coated first faux dye, which and observation. nature’s sweetener with plastic from quickly caught weavers’ Each chemist made named sugar. a previous project. wondering eyes. Suddenly, safety glass a groundbreaking was here to stay. It was MAKE THE discovery, all because soon to be used for the windshield of the 1928 CONNECTION: they recognized the Ford Model A. The scientist’s search for vast potential of a an antimalarial treatment mistake.” MAKE THE substitute leads to a plentiful color palette CONNECTION: — Katherine White, for coverlets and other associate curator, digital The crash of a chemist’s textile and paper goods. content, The Henry Ford coated beaker is what leads to car glass that’s much more crash resistant. WATCH The Accidental Discoveries Connect 3 video authored by Katherine White, associate curator, digital content at The Henry Ford thf.org/connect3/accidental-discoveriesc FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION

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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

EXPERIENCE THE LOOK AND FEEL OF THE HOLIDAY INN SOUTHGATE

n Area’s Largest Heated Indoor n Microwave, Refrigerator and Flat-Screen Hotel Pool and Whirlpool TVs in Every Room

n Award-Winning Charlie’s Chophouse n Next Door to the YMCA with Splash Park from Memorial Day Through Labor Day n Club Charlie’s Lounge with Big-Screen TVs and Live Entertainment on Weekends n 15 Minutes to The Henry Ford

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 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 · FAX 734.544.5907 ·Just 35 miles from Detroit attractions

With fine dining, gaming, headline entertainment and a Plan your trip and make reservations at www.detroitgreenﬁeld.com decadent spa, MotorCity Casino Hotel brings together excitement, luxury and pleasure to create an experience you can’t get anywhere else. • 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. ©2018 Detroit Entertainment, L.L.C. All rights reserved. Offer subject to change or cancellation anytime without notice. (248) 684-6000 • campdearborn.com

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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.

For reservations and group bookings, call 313-271-2700 or visit DearbornInnMarriott.com

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

Located just 2 miles from The Henry Ford

Each of our spacious deluxe rooms features a microwave, refrigerator, HD flat-screen TVs and free high-speed internet and local calls. Full complimentary hot breakfast, indoor pool, fitness center, business center and whirlpool.

3600 ENTERPRISE DRIVE, ALLEN PARK, MI. 48101

www.choicehotels.com/mi463 • 313.323.3500

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A LOOK BACK

HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP BOTTLE

Henry J. Heinz had a “recipe” for success. From humble beginnings bottling horseradish in his family’s basement, Heinz went on to revolutionize the concept of prepared foods and brand- name packaging. What accounted for the success of this entrepreneurial genius? He knew how to one-up the competition. Unlike all the others, Heinz used clear glass bottles to deliver on his products’ promise of quality and purity. He was persuasive. Heinz convinced housewives that his products saved them time and labor. He had vision. Ahead of his time, Heinz created a global market for his products. He was innovative. Heinz introduced wildly inventive promotions, from the pickle pin and DID YOU KNOW? / the “57 Varieties” slogan to the Heinz Henry J. Heinz moved his family’s Sharpsburg, Ocean Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, house by He understood the barge to his company’s Pittsburgh factory in power of presentation. 1904. The house, where Heinz introduced eye-catching packaging, Heinz bottled his first labels and point-of-purchase displays to product, was relocated to retail stores. Greenfield Village in 1954 and currently features an He actively engaged the consumer. exhibit on the H.J. Heinz Heinz promoted public tours of his Company’s innovative model factory. business practices and marketing techniques. Heinz House is located in Greenfield Village’s Main Street District.

WATCH The Henry Ford’s Marc Greuther talk all things Heinz with Mo Rocca on HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP BOTTLE, The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation CIRCA 1903, FROM THE HENRY FORD thf.org/innovation-nation/ ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION nano-clothesc

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INNOVATION THROUGH COLLABORATION General Motors is proud to partner with The Henry Ford. We are committed to working together and promoting STEM education so that more incredible advancements can be made in the future.

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