Well here I am next to Henry Ford at "The Henry Ford". Yes it is a museum but the name is as I said, The Henry Ford. All kinds of neat stuff. We also visited the Rouge Ford Factory. It is a new assembly plant for the F-150 pick-up truck. It is state of the art inside and out. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures inside. The three pictures below are of the growing roof, cistern and grounds. The roof has a heck of an R factor supposedly keeps the inside of the plant 10 deg. cooler in summer and warmer in winter than without it. The plant has no runoff - all the roof water goes into cisterns for industrial use as well as grounds irrigation. You can also note the very large skylites which reduce lighting costs. Also not seen are the arrays of photovoltaic panels for producting electricity. The other very interesting history of the plant is that the original plant on this site was Henry Ford's first assembly line plant in the 1920s. However this plant was much more than just an assembly line. It made everything from raw materials. All the steel, castings, wood parts etc as he did not want to be dependent on suppliers for parts.The museum pictures start with Janis Joplin's Porsche and the rest are self explanitory, except for the second picture. That picture is of the only remaining all aluminum prefab Dynomatic Home. It was supposedly going to be affordable housing for returning GI's after WW II however the designer could never get funding to produce the homes and as everyone from Long Island knows Levitt and Sons solved the housing problem.
The Henry Ford
This was Henry Fords very first automobile the rest is history
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