History 398 - Technologies and Their Societies

Resources on the Web

Week 7

• The Networked Multimedia Information Services offer an Introduction to Machine Tools, with pictures and videos of machine tools and their use.
• Or visit Penn State's online Student Machine Shop Laboratory with illustrated instructions for carrying out the major machining operations.
• There are a lot of Model T Fords still around.
• Visit and browse through the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Pay special attention to the Model T in The Showroom. Of related interest is the Clockwork exhibit.
• Even before Ford put Americans on the road, his idol and friend, Thomas A. Edison was changing the face of America and the lives of Americans at his invention factories in Menlo Park and West Orange, NJ.