Jim my name is jim johnson, im the curator of Historic Structures at the henry ford. We are here in Greenfield Village. T,are here with a 1914 model one of the things you get to experience here. Behind me is the shed, this stood behind his house in house where heed developed his first gasoline engine, eventually his first car in 1896. Then we will be having a look at his first place, which was brought here as well. Jim this is what we call the begley shed, it stood behind the complex where they lived in the 1890s. At that point, henry was a highranking steam engineer in detroit. He also had a big interest in the internal Combustion Engine and the whole concept of an automobile, which was a new thing in the 1890s. His first attempt at an engine was in 1893, and based on that successful experiment, he put together the car we see behind us here, the quadricycle. It is made up of different parts that he collected, including a set of firestone rubber buggy tires. And bicycle wheels. And the
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