Article: SUITED TO A `T' MICHIGAN MUSEUM DEDICATED TO HENRY FORDS LEGACY.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)

Byline: Mim Swartz News Travel Editor

DEARBORN, Mich. -- Henry Ford was a tinkerer. Watches, clocks, engines - just about any machinery he could get his hands on. But oh, how he loved engines. He didn't invent the automobile - German engineer Karl Benz is credited with that, producing the world's first successful gasoline-powered automobile in 1885.

Ford's first gasoline engine came eight years later, on Christmas Eve, 1893. He tested it in his kitchen, clamping it onto the sink and running a wire from the kitchen light to the spark plug, while his wife dripped the gas and he turned the flywheel. His first automobile, the two-cylinder, four-horsepower ...

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