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I will give it to you pebbly it is the 1st engine Henry Ford made but it was not in any car
Jerry
Henry Ford's first engine 1893
In 1893, a 30-year-old machinist from Detroit, Michigan, was learning about a
new technology, the internal combustion engine. In a backroom shop at the
Detroit Electric Illuminating Co., he and a few of his co-workers made a
crude working engine. On Christmas Eve, 1893. he took the experimental engine to
show his wife. Clamped to the kitchen sink using the electric light socket for
ignition power, his wife Clara controlling the fuel dripping into the intake mixer,
Henry Ford started not only the little engine, but his own path to becoming an
automotive and industrial icon known the world over.
This is a replica of that engine
Just as Henry did these were made using pipe fittings, tubing for the cylinder and
a cast iron piston made from purchased round stock. The two gears were purchased,
a flywheel from an old cart wheel was used, a Ford Model-T buzz coil powered by a
6-volt ni-cad rechargeable battery (mounted underneath the Walnut mounting board)
was used for ignition, some machined parts, and a gas tank made from a drip oiler
are the primary components.
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