Have the state capital, and we have automobile manufacturing, those three components have kept lansing very successful, it all started with building this. He was one of the founders of the automobile industry, he moved here with his family when he was about 16 years old and his father had a Machine Company and their apparent additions and actually build small and, in steam, engines that is when he became familiar with the manufacturing process, this we are talking about the late 1800s and frankly he hated horses and he said there has to be a better way to get around a horse so he was tinkering in his father shop trying to build something that would be self propelled and he came up with a three way car that he built it was a Steam Powered car and it didnt work very well at all and they rebuilt the engine three or four times to get bigger engines and family they scrapped the whole project and built a bigger for steam car and that worked pretty well actually and you have to remember that
Fantastic day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] tvthis is America History where every weekend we spent 48 hours exploring our nations past. Isthe cspan cities tour exploring the american story as we take book tv in American History tv on the road with the support of our Comcast Cable partners. Coming up in the next hour and 15 minutes, the story of how this Central Michigan town became a state capital. Minutes we will have a job or of the state capital, which is been in continuous use since 1879. Learn aboutll lansings rich history. We begin at the turner dodge home. James turner was a pioneer. It was not until the state legislature designated this area that he came with other folks into the capital. You might have expected a more sensible approach. We did not do that. We had 10 months to build the capital city and that was a
Is learning about the citys history. It was here that olds started they oldsmobile corporation. Up next, we will take you inside the museum to learn more. Car manufacturing in a city is very important to us. That industry is one of the backbones of lansing with Michigan State university and the state capital and we have automobile manufacturing. Those components have kept lansing a very successful town. It started with r. E. And building this. He was one of the founders of the Automobile Industry in the united states. He moved here with his family when he was about 16 and his father had a Machine Company and they repaired machines and actually built small engines, steam engines, and that is where he became familiar with the manufacturing process. The late 1800s, and frankly, he hated horses and said theres got to be a better way to get around than a horse. He was tinkering in his fathers shop trying to build something that would be selfpropelled, and he came up with, behind me you see
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